ScottishZizou

Sokler is just not that good a footballer and were he to be starting every game it would be an obvious weakness. Let’s see if Nisbet is the answer, he certainly has scored a lot of goals in this league and hopefully has better surroundings than he’s had before so has the potential to do well

That was like a lower league team in the cup coming to play at Pittodrie. Kilmarnock were honking, offered nothing.

Regular disagreements in my family regarding Sokler. Wife and kids are bigger fans than me for sure! I think if we have him as our first choice it’s a glaring weak point but not sure about Nisbet with his injury track record

It's obviously not the end of the world if people miss a game. However families like mine will make plans based on weekends. We decide which weekends to visit the in-laws based on home/away games as sacrificing home games when we fork out a fortune for season tickets for us all seems pretty wasteful. On top of that midweek games not as easy with bedtimes etc but sometimes it obviously can't be avoided.

Yes, by a day and a lot of fans will have been prepared for that as they knew it was Killie who were in Europe. You don't think there's a difference between moving by a day that everyone knew was a possibility or moving by weeks from a weekend to a midweek? Or are you being deliberately difficult to try and prove some sort of point? I suspect the second of those.

Killie are within their rights to request it, but it would be odd for Aberdeen to willingly accept. We are on a roll with positive momentum and we have the bonus of not having European football, we should make that benefit count whilst our rivals don't have it and try get our noses ahead of the rest. Also unfair a week out on people who have made plans/family arrangements around the game. Sorry Killie and I hope you get through but it's a ram it from me.

Dearie me. Winless Hearts are in crisis

Hahah yeah let’s wait and see if Gueye, Morris and Sokler are triumphs this year

So what did the recruitment get us last year? A bottom half finish in the league. Obviously every signing won’t be a success but the hit rate lately has not justified the significant investment. That Ross County goal was his only goal in the league! In what must have accumulated to a large amount of minutes. Let’s wait and see how much we get out of Gueye, Sokler and Morris this season and we can reconvene in a few months

I am happy to be patient with the manager for sure. I genuinely think he will be doing well to get this group of players to finish 5th though. The whole point is that we have spent good money on these fringe players. Money that other clubs don't have for players that are on a similar level to theirs. That isn't good enough recruitment

There is no boo boys bingo. But the obvious issue that we have is that we have a very mismatched squad. We have some 8/9 players who seem very capable of finishing 3rd and then the depth falls off a cliff after that to the guys I am mentioning above. There is no logical gap. A player can have a level of ability where he can bang them in against part time teams and a willingness to put a shift in when the backs are against the wall but not have the requisite ability to play with the ball against teams around your level. Which is what I believe Sokler to be. Using Sokler's stats against part time teams is obviously ridiculous. I do disagree with all of the above they aren't up to the required standard. Let's rephrase the Gueye question to even a few hundred K then? These are fees that most other teams in the league can't pay.

Will reply to both posts here. The 1 goal in 26 was his league campaign last season. Admittedly a lot off the bench but it did not come from nowhere. He really doesn't convince in front of goal at all. What I am saying is that he seems to have his uses in games when our backs are to the wall or he is playing against jobbers like Dumbarton. He is at best a bottom 6 player. Players like Jordan White scored against Celtic last year for christ sake. Should we go and sign him? Morris is undeniably not a very good footballer, anyone with half a brain can see that. Everyone is saying it because it's true. I will ignore the Gueye speculation because I never saw him play in Norway. Even the glimpses that we get you can see he is nowhere near good enough. Answer me this- knowing what you know now, if you were to go back to last summer. Would you say yes to: 1- signing Gueye for more than £500k? 2- Spending a couple hundred K on Sokler 3- Giving Morris a multi year contract?

Christ! what a confrontational bloke. You can tell by watching Gueye play that he is not of the required quality, it's immensely obvious even in the brief glimpses of him we are getting. Nobody said Ryan Duncan plays for free but he didn't cost us multiple hundred thousand and we can assume he is not on the same wages as people that were bought for those fees. Morris (another on a longer term deal) obviously not up to the required level. Sokler is at best someone who can do a shift, no better than many other jobbing players at the bottom of the Scottish premiership. I doubt many clubs in the league would be desperate to have him in their ranks. It's logical that someone who's primary qualities seem to be putting a lot of work in would do better in games without the ball. Or against teams well below the required standard in the league cup. That is surely logical no? If Sokler turns out to have a great season I will eat humble pie but my opinion is that he is not good enough and a bottom of the league quality player. Is that definitive enough for you? The backdrop to all of this that squandering money on these long term deals is hindering the current manager's ability to put together a good all round squad.

Will have to add “read St Johnstone pre season thread” to next years summer holiday plans

St Johnstone look like they are playing with 9 men. Where are all their players when Aberdeen get the ball?