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Timeo danaos et dona ferentes I think a few Greek clubs have had to be chased up for transfer fees in recent seasons

He's done a few of our games before - the Queen's Park defeat sticks out for obvious reasons....

Apparently AEK Athens have a strong interest in the big man.

Has Sam Allardyce got a son ?

Whilst I agree with pretty much all of your post dB, a good manager can get much more from a team than the sum of their parts. The season we won #55 was the best football I've ever seen us playing, the cohesion, movement, pressing and passing was absolutely outstanding, none of that team had reached that level before that season, and I'm not sure any have since. It can be done, but you then need to build on it.

That's what our neighbour said (he watched it on TV). At the game we thought we were getting fouls we don't usually get, although he made a few errors.

Well it’s the final tomorrow Crystal Palace take on Manchester City who have had a truly poor season for whatever reason but I think they will be to good for Palace and bring home the cup .

Might be overthinking it but that ref on Wednesday, Calum Scott. Has he been involved in any of our games before? He certainly ticked a lot of the boxes for the SPFL in that he was not looking like he wanted to give us anything - indeed it looked like he was almost forced to go to the monitor for the penalty.

I wonder how many of the present board of directors will be wanting to keep their place in the new boardroom you know to add their expertise on all things Scottish football. 😆

Eh? That means a value of over $140B!!

You can play 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3 all day long, if you have the players who can perform in this system. We never had these players since the time it was introduced, shoehorned centre-forwards into roles not theirs, and played it no matter of the opposition. Every now and then, a player aside from the (as in: one) centre-forward weighed in with a hatful of goals, Sima, Kent, Tillman, Tavernier, Cerny etc. but it was not enough. We did not adapt to these realities and suffered the consequences. They not only had the money, but also got enough solid players to fulfil the job that was required. Maybe not in Europe, but surely in Scotland. As was said elsewhere, dislike them or him as you want, Ange came in, saw what was needed, got e.g. these Japanese in, and they ran away with the silverware. And the reaction of us (well most) was not debating the system which is utterly unsuitable for the Scottish game, but going after this or that striker, who did not convert 75+ % of the chances he got. If he would, he would not play for Rangers in this day and age. What we needed and need for "modern" football is a striker who scores 20+ per season, and three+ players behind him who come up with 10+ each too. In the league! But as of May 6th ... Dessers (52 games) 25 goals + 12 assists Cerny (49) 17 + 8 Igamane (43) 14 + 5 ... and Danilo, Diomande and Lawrence with 6 goals each. Like in the days of Morelos, one striker was asked to carry the team, and if he didn't come up with all (as in: ALL) the goods, we were screwed. This needs to be addressed. And not by signing a potential 30+ goals striker, but by getting attackers who score ... and play them all in a system suitable to break Scottish brick walls.

Actually looking at that list of goalscorers, notice how many of them lot are on it? This is where our problems really are. Not enough players getting on the score sheet from other areas. In the "top 20" performing goalscorers in Scotland, they've got 8 players on the table. By comparison we have three.

‘Keepers like Ritchie, Cruickshank, Niven (at Partick) McCloy (at Motherwell) Sorenson (at Morton) ? OK, Niven was at the end of his career and Ritchie was nearing it and McCloy and Sorenson were at the beginning of theirs and the all the rest were average. Barging was nearing the end of its career too. Tommy White at the Hearts was the last of the bargers and he didn’t get away with it often. McBride was a Negri style finisher with added endurance. A real injury curtailed his career.

75,000 record attendance at the old Valley. Games against Millwall could be interesting.

Thinking back to serial missers like Maxie Murray and McCoist you always felt it was ok because they would get the next one. I don’t have that confidence with CD. His stats suggest I should have. It’s a perception thing.

I think they are going to allow fans to sup alcohol at the Goodison game pity fans can't behave of they could all enjoy a drink during the match

Villa 2-0 ‘Spurs Chelsea 2-2 United Everton 2-1 Southampton Hammers 2-0 Forest Brentford 3-1 Fulham Leicester 2-1 Ipswich Arsenal 2-0 Newcastle Brighton 1-3 Liverpool Effy Cup Last Gasp: Palace 2-1 City unfortunately and in 90 minutes.

If a club makes a right good offer then sell him same goes for the rest of our players if silly money is offered grab it there's a player I think from Bournemouth haven't heard of him Madrid are supposed to be ready to pay 50 million

He's a pure goalscorer. His all-round game is very limited. That's not necessarily a bad thing - I think the negatives are emphasised when the rest of the team don't chip in with goals. I wouldn't be opposed to keeping him around, but, for me, every player is up for sale.

Marco Rose and Russell Martin are the only names mentioned that appeal to me.

Dessers would be good to keep as a second striker, but his value now is at its maximum and financially we may be better selling.

Davide Ancelotti was an interesting candidate but I was unconvinced he was the right person for a job that difficult doesn't begin to describe. Problem is I've still no idea who should get it as I'm not enthused by anyone linked. Just appoint Gerrard and Naismith and be done with it...

He also terrorized both Man Utd's defence and Athletics getting a few goals so that's also a factor to consider when we are playing in European games, I’d keep him for at least a few more seasons and see who we bring in who could work alongside him, Dannilo on the other hand I would Mag to Grid ( get rid) 110%.

I'd actually be okay with us going into next season with CD, HA and one other striker, preferably someone quick. CD isn't perfect, and he absolutely does my nut in at times, but I'd keep him.

Move to Brazil with the old man or be his own man in Glasgow? One can't really blame him for taking the easier option. The sightseeing in Rio is considerably more pleasant than Glasgow, I'd have thought.