banana Posted May 20, 2015 Author Share Posted May 20, 2015 Souttar and Ciftci finally offered extensions. http://dufc.co/news/united-make-enhanced-ciftci-and-souttar-offers/ Dundee United have offered contract extensions to top scorer Nadir Ciftci and rising star John Souttar. Both players have a year remaining on existing contracts and the Club is keen to secure their service for the longer term. 23-year old Ciftci has scored 31 goals in 81 appearances for United attracting the interest of the Turkish U21 international team having played at international youth level previously. 18-year old Souttar is a product of the highly successful Dundee United youth academy system and is a current Scotland U19 internationalist and has played 51 time for the Club. A Club spokesperson said, “Both players have proved their worth to the team and the Club as a whole and merit the extension offer. We believe that Dundee United remains the best club for both players to develop and as such have made enhanced longer term offers to the players that reflect their value to Dundee United.” Hopefully good offers. Would be massive to get both on board, Souttar especially. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pull My Strings Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Souttar and Ciftci finally offered extensions. http://dufc.co/news/united-make-enhanced-ciftci-and-souttar-offers/ Hopefully good offers. Would be massive to get both on board, Souttar especially. Seems a rather unusual step to announce that offers have been made rather than waiting to announce that the contracts have been agreed. I hope I'm reading too much into this but I fear this is the club setting up the next announcement along the lines of "we made the players very attractive offers but ...". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumigoo Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Strange to see a club announce something like this officially but it will be a season ticket baiting statement to appeal to the fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Strange to see a club announce something like this officially but it will be a season ticket baiting statement to appeal to the fans. I thought that too. Either that or the club trying to show they're doing all they can to keep them, in case they do decide to leave this summer? After the last year or so, I wouldn't have thought the United fans would appreciate losing two more players they have high hopes for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deefiant Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Seems a rather unusual step to announce that offers have been made rather than waiting to announce that the contracts have been agreed. I hope I'm reading too much into this but I fear this is the club setting up the next announcement along the lines of "we made the players very attractive offers but ...". This... Could just be trying to quell the fan revolt going on at the moment though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted May 20, 2015 Author Share Posted May 20, 2015 Interview with Dillon up on Arabzone, 30 minutes. Crackin interview with Justin Johnson from last week, seems crushingly shy. Jackie very enthusiastic about his chances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 http://dufc.co/news/chairmans-statement-2/ ST says im allowed a life outside of united, mind your own fucking business. Good for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumigoo Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Seems like the initial response online seems to have gone from "Why hasn't he spoken?!?! His silence means he is a lying, cheating scumbag!!!", to "He has spoken but it is is too late and I still don't trust him, he is a lying, cheating scumbag!!!" Thompson can't win at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArabFC Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Souttar and Ciftci finally offered extensions. http://dufc.co/news/united-make-enhanced-ciftci-and-souttar-offers/ Hopefully good offers. Would be massive to get both on board, Souttar especially. It is mind-blowing that two of our best players (and assets) haven't been offered a new contract until they have only 12 months left on their deals! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 The entitlement of some of our fans, especially on mad and facebook, is fucking ridiculous. It actually puts you off sharing a stadiums with some of these morons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArabianKnight Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 http://dufc.co/news/chairmans-statement-2/ ST says im allowed a life outside of united, mind your own fucking business. Good for him. Spot on given the recent events.Does anyone else think there's a bit of vote of confidence about it though? Edut fur spills Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionel hutz Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 It is mind-blowing that two of our best players (and assets) haven't been offered a new contract until they have only 12 months left on their deals! Surprised Paton hasn't been offered an extension too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 If Hibs manage to Hibs up the play-offs, I'd like to see us go for Fontaine. He seems pretty solid, and would be decent next to Mad Jarik. Assuming the baldy snake doesn't offer all our shite players massive contract extensions and pawn the family silver to move to Australia, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Spot on given the recent events. Does anyone else think that's a but of vote of confidence about it though? yep whilst some of our fans seem to think ST and mcnamara are some joined at the hip axis of evil i have no doubt the board would get rid if they thought it was the right thing to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waffelz Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 The statement really is about three months too late. If he wanted to win the fans back, he'd get rid of our rather bad manager and his "coaching" team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
an-dee Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Thompson has every right to pursue other business interests, but is he not a paid employee? How much annual leave has he taken to go travelling to Australia for weeks at a time?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Seems like the initial response online seems to have gone from "Why hasn't he spoken?!?! His silence means he is a lying, cheating scumbag!!!", to "He has spoken but it is is too late and I still don't trust him, he is a lying, cheating scumbag!!!" Thompson can't win at the moment. Aye, just like the team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pull My Strings Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Thompson has every right to pursue other business interests, but is he not a paid employee? How much annual leave has he taken to go travelling to Australia for weeks at a time?! Nothing untoward here. The partners in my firm regularly take twice as much annual leave as we mere salaried staff. That's one of the perks of owning the business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pull My Strings Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Aye, just like the team. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Amirite? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted May 21, 2015 Author Share Posted May 21, 2015 Aye, just like the team. Here's our last 13 games. 08-03-2015 15:30 Celtic Tannadice D 1 - 1 Scottish Cup 15-03-2015 15:00 Celtic Hampden Park L 0 - 2 League Cup 18-03-2015 19:45 Celtic Celtic Park L 0 - 4 Scottish Cup 21-03-2015 15:00 Celtic Celtic Park L 0 - 3 SPFL 04-04-2015 15:00 Ross County Tannadice L 1 - 2 SPFL 08-04-2015 19:45 Dundee Dens Park Stadium L 1 - 3 SPFL 11-04-2015 15:00 Hamilton Accies Tannadice W 1 - 0 SPFL 18-04-2015 15:00 Aberdeen Pittodrie L 0 - 1 SPFL 26-04-2015 12:30 Celtic Tannadice L 0 - 3 SPFL 02-05-2015 15:00 Aberdeen Tannadice W 1 - 0 SPFL 05-05-2015 19:45 Inverness CT Caledonian Stadium L 1 - 2 SPFL 09-05-2015 15:00 St Johnstone McDiarmid Park D 1 - 1 SPFL 16-05-2015 15:00 Inverness CT Caledonian Stadium L 0 - 3 SPFL Four losses and a draw to Celtic - expected. A tight loss to a Ross County on a hot streak - not unexpected. Loss to Dundee at Dens - not unexpected given the recent run of Celtic games. Tight win against Hamilton, near us in the league. Tight loss away to Aberdeen, 2nd best team in the league - expected. Tight win home against Aberdeen, 2nd best team in the league - unexpected. Two losses in Inverness against the 3rd best side in the league - not unexpected. Draw against St Johnstone, decent result considering Wright's ability to often outmanouver Jackie. It's important to look at the relative quality of the opposition. With the additional context of losing GMS and Armstrong and the epic fallout that's continued to surround the club this day, it's not particularly surprising that there's been a general downturn in form and performances. We've also had to deal with fitting new players into the team (McGowan, Dixon, Muirhead, Onree), losing Dow, Bilate, Paton and Morris to on-off injuries, and the regular gifts from Rado. Context. Perspective. As PMS said yesterday, one of the big challenges McNamara faces is learning from his recent experience and managing to sort out the organisation of the team (especially that backline) regardless of the personnel available, or swallowing his pride and bringing in an assistant coach who can. Further amateur statistical analysis to come in the following days... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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