CammyF

I hope he does, but we are still short of goalscorers, we only have Dessers. Do you expect Cortes to equal or better Simas stats from last season?

We need starters rather than projects at the moment. Over the course of the window, we'll need a share of both.

So if he makes up Tavs output, we are no better than last season? Surely we need to better Tavs output?

I never said that. I said we need players who are better than those that have left. Never mentioned age.

In English please 🙏 Edit - why when reviewing Tavs stats do we discount penalties? Do they not count?

Nah, need starters who are better than those who have left.

I'd be delighted if we did especially if they were "starters" rather than "projects".

Well thank you (I think).....😀

Thats why I said "current". We start our league campaign in 2 weeks time and CL qualifiers soon after.

Tav will bring in £3-£4M and free up wages. That doesn't buy you much in today's market, especially if you are looking to buy proven goalscorers. We need to shift a few more from the squad - Goldson, Lammers (2 clubs have met our evaluation but can't agree personal terms), Davies, Matondo, Cantwell, Lawrence, Dowell, Yilmaz, Hagi et al. Unrealistic that we'll move them all on, but to get a squad capable of winning the league and getting to CL we will need to generate money somehow. Do you agree that the current squad is way short of what is required?

Very simplistic, but look at last seasons stats - we don't appear to have any players capable of assisting and / or scoring on a regular basis, the exceptions being Tav, Sima and Dessers. We've lost Sima, Tav is about to leave, so that leaves Dessers who most want sold. Mental.....

We fell apart spectacularly last season in the league due to injuries and let's be honest, some weird team selections, inverting our full-backs and adopting Warburtons 'plan B is do plan A better'. On paper we are well covered in most positions, but in reality it's the same players who failed last season. You've included players like Lowry and Hagi who have had enough chances and Lammers who well is eh Lammers. Then you have to factor in our usual injuries - Raskin and Igamane (unconfirmed) have already fallen foul of the curse. Selling Tav weakens us, not having Sima weakens us and we only have Dessers who looks likely to score more than 15 goals in a season (Danilo may but he is returning from a serious injury, so in reality, we will be relying on Dessers at the start of the season and he also Co.ing back from injury). If our best chance of winning the league is hoping that the likes of Lawrence, Wright, Dowell and Matondo suddenly morph into great players then we are in bigger trouble than I thought. The squad of players above won't win the league and won't qualify for the CL Group stages..

Or we've signed another player who is injured and will miss a chunk of the season? Anyway, all rumours at the moment - will await official confirmation.

So team for Tynecastle and CL Qualifiers as it stands ; Butland Sterling Balogun / Goldson Soutar / Davies Yilmaz / Jefte Dio Barron Cantwell / Lawrence McCausland Dessers / Danilo Cortes Are you worried yet?

Tyrese Campbell best pals with James McLean and all over social media thanking him for talking him out of signing for Rangers - best avoided.

Rumour is he's out for 4 months. Maybe that's why he's not going to be a starter 🤷‍♂️

Igamane injured? Surely not 🤷‍♂️

Didn't manage to hold down the RB slot whilst at loan at Motherwell, so would suggest he isn't ready to be our starting RB. I'd like to see him go out on loan again.

Devine couldn't hold down the RB slot at Motherwell so that suggests he ain't gonna (ready) to hold it down at Ibrox. We wouldn't have signed a LB if we are going with 3 at the back.l, and we don't have sufficient decent CBs to go 3 at back. We now have 2 LBs (assuming Yilmaz doesn't leave), so we'll need 2 RBs. IMO if / when Tav leaves then a replacement RB becomes a top priority.

So if we get the rumoured £3-4M for Tav, how much of that do we spend in a replacement right back? We will 100% need a replacement as Sterling whilst a "find" last season had injury problems (and has historically). A decent fee and freeing up hus wages is a good outcome but be interesting to see how the money is used.

The linked article says he's expressed a desire to leave City in this window but they've not received any offers as yet.

He has been relegated back to Bristol City's U21s as he is refusing to sign a new contract. Don't know much about him, scored 20 goals in 82 appearances. https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/tommy-conway-bristol-city-contract-9421002

When a respected Turkish media outlet was asked if Fabrizio was on the mark with this, they replied "no". Time will tell I suppose. EDIT - another Turkish outlet saying personal terms agreed but clubs are £1M apart on the fee.

Shankland scores for Hearts tonight - losing 5-1 at home to Spurs

Yeah and I'm sure I read Gerrards team have reached the new quota - might be wrong tho!