Winter transfer thread 2024/25

[Ray_]

Only, one Rocky and he is a character, we need characters in the game, he may mess up now and again but that's what makes him human.
He will get better I am sure of it, even the great John Blackley would screw up in a game before going on to be player of the match.

I don't buy that one JB was a very consistent and reliable player. Every player will have an odd mistake, comparisons with Rocky, not by a long shot By the time Sloop was Rocky's age he had U23, Scottish League & full caps, in an era when Scotland had an abundance of defensive talent and you don't get that by making the mistakes Rocky does.

[The Modfather]

Filtering by playing time shows the below, I have screen grabbed the players with lower minutes. Might help you 😁

https://i.ibb.co/f97sgks/Screenshot-20250107-173927.png (https://ibb.co/PM8dLcd)

Imagine the carnage of Benjamin Mendy signing and him and Malky Mackay in the signing photo. Time to get the popcorn for that thread.

[BILLYHIBS]

Only, one Rocky and he is a character, we need characters in the game, he may mess up now and again but that's what makes him human.
He will get better I am sure of it, even the great John Blackley would screw up in a game before going on to be player of the match.

Struggling to remember any John Blackley f#ck ups I am afraid

His great strength was his reading of the game from a young age the best I have ever seen so good he kept King Paddy out of his favoured sweeper role

If Rocky had half of Blackley’s ability to read a game anticipation and sheer football skill what a player Rocky would be as it stands Rocky is badly lacking in that department

I remember I used to get down early to ER to watch Blackley’s prematch warm up an exercise in ball juggling balancing and keepie uppie

[Bostonhibby]

Struggling to remember any John Blackley f#ck ups I am afraid

His great strength was his reading of the game from a young age the best I have ever seen so good he kept King Paddy out of his favoured sweeper role

If Rocky had half of Blackley’s ability to read a game anticipation and sheer football ability what a player Rocky would be as it stands Rocky is badly lacking in that art

I remember I used to get down early to ER to watch Blackley’s prematch warm up an exercise in ball juggling balancing and keepie uppieJohn Blackley, sweeper, defender, reader of the game, leader & tough guy, magnificent player.

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[CapitalGreen]

I think he is definitely better yes and wouldn't be surprised if he ended up at one of the old firm. Think it would be an upgrade on C Cadden at both options of RWB and further up as a winger. Lots of talk of Lyall Cameron and would like to see us go for both, would have Mulligan as the top target of the 2 though.

Cameron is a better player, Mulligan has only started getting regular gametime since McCowan has left.

[hibsbollah]

Any idea what the standard in the second division is like?

Unsure the club will be that interested in their players on the fringes

Mixed. Bamba Dieng on loanfrom Lorient at Angers is a £10million player. Maxine Lopez at Paris FC double that. But there's also some really small regional clubs lower down the division. Lorient are essentially a ligue 1 side punching below their weight.

[Jones28]

I demand we sign any midfielder called Cheesemaker.

Only if he brings le Brie with him.

[WhileTheChief..]

Hibs have Smith, Bursik, Boruc and Johnson for the keeper position.

Ug.

That sounds a bit like a goalkeeping school :wink:

[BILLYHIBS]

John Blackley, sweeper, defender, reader of the game, leader & tough guy, magnificent player.

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[TrinityHFC]

I would like the club to get the finger out now. We are desperate for new signings and I see no benefit to waiting. Getting impatient.


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Doesn’t it get boring repeating this early on in every window?

History shows we don’t always get it right on players but we are always active.

[blackpoolhibs]

I cant breathe, Rocky and Blackley in the same sentence? :faf:

[Bostonhibby]

https://i.ibb.co/VVHXXj9/IMG-3198.png (https://ibb.co/ZdHyyLX)[emoji106] was looking for that the other day. Got it in my aged head that i'd seen him plant John McDonald but it wasn't.

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[TT07]

[emoji106] was looking for that the other day. Got it in my aged head that i'd seen him plant John McDonald but it wasn't.

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John Greig

[Bostonhibby]

John GreigEqually acceptable [emoji16]

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[superfurryhibby]

In my many years watching Hibs, I have seen a few centre halfs and Porto is a pretty good one, when I think about some of the poorer players in the same position, makes me realise that the majority of good centre halfs dont really mature as players till they get to around 27 years auld.
I also remember a certain Rob Jones who could not trap a bag o cement when he first got to Hibs, he turned out alright. Just ma humbe opinion of course.

As for that phanney Gerard enough said, think he will stay in the desert for as long as a camel.

No denying that Porto has ability, but even allowing for the maturity factor, I feel he didn't manage things as well as he could have at Hibs. I wondered if he had the mental capacity to be a top player (EPL standard). He did wisely get out of our goldfish pool and has become a seasoned campaigner in a much better league, so acknowledge his progress. He would be utterly nuts to return here though, especially to the Huns.



I don't buy that one JB was a very consistent and reliable player. Every player will have an odd mistake, comparisons with Rocky, not by a long shot By the time Sloop was Rocky's age he had U23, Scottish League & full caps, in an era when Scotland had an abundance of defensive talent and you don't get that by making the mistakes Rocky does.

I was only 15-16 when John left Hibs, but he was clearly a level or two above most of what followed in the 45 years since (Sauzee at sweeper is probably the only one). That said, he was part of a Hibs defence that shipped goals at times. The horrible week of my first league cup final springs to mind. Was it 15 goals in three games (v Celtic and Juve)? TBF he was playing against proper international standard players, not Alfredo Morelos :wink:

[MacGruber]

Cameron is a better player, Mulligan has only started getting regular gametime since McCowan has left.

You may well be right (not that the regular starter measure has any bearing on it as young players come through at different times) though Mulligan impressed me more the times I've seen Dundee. Admittedly, don't watch Dundee all that often.
Would love us to go for both

https://x.com/DundeeFC/status/1876222270852493393?t=_ELtEvhEdJxNB9ZemZFygA&s=19

[04Sauzee]

Aberdeen have a bid in for a Latvian defender
Motherwell sign a midfielder from Coventry on loan, a young guy who's been on the Coventry bench recently.
Hearts linked with Declan Frith.

Hopefully some noises come out of Easter Road soon.

[Chorley Hibee]

Aberdeen have a bid in for a Latvian defender
Motherwell sign a midfielder from Coventry on loan, a young guy who's been on the Coventry bench recently.
Hearts linked with Declan Frith.

Hopefully some noises come out of Easter Road soon.

I really hope Hibs aren't dragging their feet, yet again, when it comes to getting the necessary bodies in.

We shouldn't be naive in thinking that the current good run of form means we don't require strengthening, because we absolutely do.

We're still somewhere in between fighting for Europe and having a stab at the Scottish Cup, or being dragged back into serious trouble.

This window could be the difference between the two.

[tonyrougier123]

I demand we sign any midfielder called Cheesemaker.

Might cost a wedge.

[The Modfather]

What do we think the summers hit rate is?

Good - Cadden, Triantis, Iredale, Gayle

Average - Smith, Ekpiteta, O’Hora (Smith & Ekpiteta on the cusp of good?)

Bad - Kwon, Bursic, Myko, Hoilett, McCowan/no alternative fiasco

TBC - Bowie (looked good though)

A mixed bag? At least there’s more sense to the approach. I hope we start to widen our search as it’s still a very insular outlook.

[04Sauzee]

What do we think the summers hit rate is?

Good - Cadden, Triantis, Iredale

Average - Smith, Ekpiteta, O’Hora (Smith & Ekpiteta on the cusp of good?)

Bad - Kwon, Bursic, Myko, Hoilett, McCowan/no alternative fiasco

A mixed bag? At least there’s more sense to the approach. I hope we start to widen our search as it’s still a very insular outlook.

I still like Hoilett, I don't think the change of formation has helped/suited him unfortunately, don't think he's suited to the No10 roll or as one of the two strikers.

[HibeeSince85]

What do we think the summers hit rate is?

Good - Cadden, Triantis, Iredale

Average - Smith, Ekpiteta, O’Hora (Smith & Ekpiteta on the cusp of good?)

Bad - Kwon, Bursic, Myko, Hoilett, McCowan/no alternative fiasco

A mixed bag? At least there’s more sense to the approach. I hope we start to widen our search as it’s still a very insular outlook.

Gayle can be added to the good.

[Since452]

What do we think the summers hit rate is?

Good - Cadden, Triantis, Iredale

Average - Smith, Ekpiteta, O’Hora (Smith & Ekpiteta on the cusp of good?)

Bad - Kwon, Bursic, Myko, Hoilett, McCowan/no alternative fiasco

A mixed bag? At least there’s more sense to the approach. I hope we start to widen our search as it’s still a very insular outlook.

Triantis has been really poor up until recently. Jury out for me.

[Smartie]

I really hope Hibs aren't dragging their feet, yet again, when it comes to getting the necessary bodies in.

We shouldn't be naive in thinking that the current good run of form means we don't require strengthening, because we absolutely do.

We're still somewhere in between fighting for Europe and having a stab at the Scottish Cup, or being dragged back into serious trouble.

This window could be the difference between the two.

I hate to bring the phrase back up but the difference between 3rd and 12th might come down to good old “fine margins”.

Getting appropriate players in early enough to make maximum impact could make a difference of quite a few places for a squad as stretched as ours is currently.

I actually thought the stretched squad did every bit as well as could be expected on Sunday but looked weak and badly stretched at Perth.

Scrimping or pissing about could be costly.

[Davy Mac]

Unfortunately, Hibs have never really listened to the fans in recent times when it comes to transfers.

Sadly, there appears to be a hesitancy in the transfer market for some reason.

[Donegal Hibby]

I think he is definitely better yes and wouldn't be surprised if he ended up at one of the old firm. Think it would be an upgrade on C Cadden at both options of RWB and further up as a winger. Lots of talk of Lyall Cameron and would like to see us go for both, would have Mulligan as the top target of the 2 though.

Mulligan has looked a good player . I mentioned Cameron a couple of times too , maybe most have . One I seen a couple of times where he’s either looked very good to just so-so .. can’t make up my mind about him TBH .

[blackpoolhibs]

We are in a difficult position at the moment, lots of players will be told to GTF in the summer, players who have contributed nothing over the course of their contracts.

I'd rather we did the bare minimum this window unless the signing was real quality and just used loans to get us through to the summer, when the real clearout happens.

I hope we dont sign more pish panic buys this month, saddling us for another year or two with players not good enough to progress us.

Cant believe i'm advocating patience here. :greengrin

[WhileTheChief..]

^^I think you're right.

I never expected much to happen this window.

This season is all about doing the best we can with what we've got until the summer when we can reshape the squad, not just the first team.

[Gordy M]

We have to remember we have about 5 first team players out injured at the moment, Newell, Ellie, Myko, Expikieta and Bowie. We cant sign players on longer contracts just to cover a 6 month period, and im sure all these players will be back sooner or later, so unless we can get better players in, then i can see why the club arent rushing.

I see Cameron from Dunee mentioned? Is he up for sale? Will Dundee let him go mid season? Its easy for us as fans to throw out a wish list, but he may not be available?

[HibbyKeith]

We are in a difficult position at the moment, lots of players will be told to GTF in the summer, players who have contributed nothing over the course of their contracts.

I'd rather we did the bare minimum this window unless the signing was real quality and just used loans to get us through to the summer, when the real clearout happens.

I hope we dont sign more pish panic buys this month, saddling us for another year or two with players not good enough to progress us.

Cant believe i'm advocating patience here. :greengrin

I agree about being in a difficult position, however, with the league being so tight and gaining European football for next season being a very real possibility for quite a few teams in the league, we should be trying our hardest in this window to put ourselves in a position of strength to be the team that achieves it.
It may be the difference for the summer recruitment if we were lucky enough to have a European football carrot to wave Infront of potential new signings. We may still need your advocated patience for this window:greengrin, it could go right to the wire if we are trying to get genuine quality in the door.

[hibs4life]

Unfortunately, Hibs have never really listened to the fans in recent times when it comes to transfers.

Sadly, there appears to be a hesitancy in the transfer market for some reason.
That's a shame, as I'm sure there are so many Hibs fans who are experts in football recruitment.
Let's just hope we now have some people in the club who know what they are doing...

[hibee1875]

Unfortunately, Hibs have never really listened to the fans in recent times when it comes to transfers.

Sadly, there appears to be a hesitancy in the transfer market for some reason.

Can’t believe Hibs aren’t sitting trawling this thread listening to us.

[MacGruber]

We are in a difficult position at the moment, lots of players will be told to GTF in the summer, players who have contributed nothing over the course of their contracts.

I'd rather we did the bare minimum this window unless the signing was real quality and just used loans to get us through to the summer, when the real clearout happens.

I hope we dont sign more pish panic buys this month, saddling us for another year or two with players not good enough to progress us.

Cant believe i'm advocating patience here. :greengrin

I think you are right, only wanting quality players if we can get them and no panic buys.

This coming summer being the big clearout narrative always puzzles me though. There is a constant churn of players - we ended last season with a squad of 34 and have since moved out 21 of those, that's two thirds (quick maths I know). Granted some away on loan.
Moved out 21 since last season ended (another batch, 15 or 16 kids moved) and brought in 12 in the summer. Seems like there has just been a real clear out.

Just never bought into this can't be judged until they get their own men, can't be judged until next summer. I'm judging now - 12 players in the door!

I know the replies will feature names like Amos and McKirdy which obviously there is still marginalised players there that aren't contributing and need moved off the wage bill - it's true of every club though.

Hibs support from the summer up to about a month ago slating Malky and the recruitment (me included) though starting to look like it wasn't as bad as we thought it was and a real team bond is starting to come out with a number of good characters.

I'm not for waiting until next season/just avoiding the bottom places - time to push on is now, we are as good as anyone else in the league outside old firm and we should be targeting 3rd and Europe. Personally feel we could finish anywhere between 3rd and 11th as it stands but we need to be ambitious. The other clubs in the league, Hearts, Aberdeen, Dundee Utd - they'll all be making signings to strengthen. No danger anyone else is thinking about just getting by until the summer. If you stand still you move backwards.

I've now lost track of the point and can't remember the question. I may well have been drinking

[LaMotta]

What do we think the summers hit rate is?

Good - Cadden, Triantis, Iredale, Gayle

Average - Smith, Ekpiteta, O’Hora (Smith & Ekpiteta on the cusp of good?)

Bad - Kwon, Bursic, Myko, Hoilett, McCowan/no alternative fiasco

TBC - Bowie (looked good though)

A mixed bag? At least there’s more sense to the approach. I hope we start to widen our search as it’s still a very insular outlook.

Cadden and Gayle deserve an excellent category.

I would have Smith in good.

Hoilett has been decent overall, unfair to have him in the bad IMO. Most people would have had Myko in average or good before his Celtic Park disaster. Should have gave us a derby winner if it wasn't for Bursik and a host of defenders letting him down. I would have him in average just now.

Agree Kwon has been a major disappointment.

Burisk deserves a catastrophically terrible category of his own.

[Pretty Boy]

Anything in McKirdy posting a picture of himself playing for Swindon in his Instagram stories?

[Hibernian Verse]

Anything in McKirdy posting a picture of himself playing for Swindon in his Instagram stories?

Is there any caption or context?


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[Keepthefaith]

Unfortunately, Hibs have never really listened to the fans in recent times when it comes to transfers.

Sadly, there appears to be a hesitancy in the transfer market for some reason.

sadly there appears to be a tendency amongst some Hibs fans to always look back and assume we're in the same position as we were. do you not recognise that we have brought in a new head of recruitment from our partnership with BK? do you not listen to the club when they acknowledge the need to do things differently?

so many panic merchants here and its only 7th Jan. the important thing is getting the right player and moving as much of the dead wood on as possible. they've started doing the latter so why not have some patience and look forward, not back?

oh and which Hibs fans do you want them to listen to? the ones that told the club Maolida was rubbish? that Triantis can't play in midfield? that we shouldn't be signing 30 something strikers who are past it? calm down fella eh?

[hibsbollah]

sadly there appears to be a tendency amongst some Hibs fans to always look back and assume we're in the same position as we were. do you not recognise that we have brought in a new head of recruitment from our partnership with BK? do you not listen to the club when they acknowledge the need to do things differently?

so many panic merchants here and its only 7th Jan. the important thing is getting the right player and moving as much of the dead wood on as possible. they've started doing the latter so why not have some patience and look forward, not back?

oh and which Hibs fans do you want them to listen to? the ones that told the club Maolida was rubbish? that Triantis can't play in midfield? that we shouldn't be signing 30 something strikers who are past it? calm down fella eh?

Its a freudian slip about listening to the fans, and a pretty funny one too.

Please, please DON’T listen to the fans about signings. Especially not me.

[easty]

Is there any caption or context?


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It's a memory of what he did on this day in 2022

[allmodcons]

What do we think the summers hit rate is?

Good - Cadden, Triantis, Iredale, Gayle

Average - Smith, Ekpiteta, O’Hora (Smith & Ekpiteta on the cusp of good?)

Bad - Kwon, Bursic, Myko, Hoilett, McCowan/no alternative fiasco

TBC - Bowie (looked good though)

A mixed bag? At least there’s more sense to the approach. I hope we start to widen our search as it’s still a very insular outlook.

Agree with most of this but Ekpiteta is a complete bombscare of a defender and Hoilett is way better than your ‘bad’ rating.

[Alex Trager]

Unfortunately, Hibs have never really listened to the fans in recent times when it comes to transfers.

Sadly, there appears to be a hesitancy in the transfer market for some reason.

They shouldn’t listen to fans when it cones to transfers.

They should have players signed by now.

We shouldn’t be surprised though.

It is a never ending story with Hibernian FC of ‘we need signings in ASAP to bed in when the window opens’ and then we leave it all late.

We’re nearly a week into January. We NEED players in. So get them in.

[GreenCastle]

Cadden and Gayle deserve an excellent category.

I would have Smith in good.

Hoilett has been decent overall, unfair to have him in the bad IMO. Most people would have had Myko in average or good before his Celtic Park disaster. Should have gave us a derby winner if it wasn't for Bursik and a host of defenders letting him down. I would have him in average just now.

Agree Kwon has been a major disappointment.

Burisk deserves a catastrophically terrible category of his own.

Agreed.

I’ve not written Kwon off but he does need to do more - he showed at St Mirren he was decent enough for this league.

Hoilett was also our best player at start of season and still brings quality to the team like his assist for Gayles header.

[Fritz]

Triantis has been really poor up until recently. Jury out for me.

Don’t agree with that at all. He’s been far from perfect, but more good than bad. And still only 21. To say he’s been really poor is a really poor call.

[jeffers]

They shouldn’t listen to fans when it cones to transfers.

They should have players signed by now.

We shouldn’t be surprised though.

It is a never ending story with Hibernian FC of ‘we need signings in ASAP to bed in when the window opens’ and then we leave it all late.

We’re nearly a week into January. We NEED players in. So get them in.

It would be nice to see Mackay and his “mate” Marshall show their worth sometime soon. So far there has been heehaw sign of that although the former does talk a good game.

[GreenCastle]

They shouldn’t listen to fans when it cones to transfers.

They should have players signed by now.

We shouldn’t be surprised though.

It is a never ending story with Hibernian FC of ‘we need signings in ASAP to bed in when the window opens’ and then we leave it all late.

We’re nearly a week into January. We NEED players in. So get them in.

The Gray quote on 30th December was..

I'd imagine it to be later on in the window [than Thursday], as again it'll probably come down to what can be done, what the options are,”

That’s basically him saying we need to create space in squad and then see what’s possible.

[LaMotta]

Agreed.

I’ve not written Kwon off but he does need to do more - he showed at St Mirren he was decent enough for this league.

Hoilett was also our best player at start of season and still brings quality to the team like his assist for Gayles header.

:agree:

[PatHead]

The Gray quote on 30th December was..

I'd imagine it to be later on in the window [than Thursday], as again it'll probably come down to what can be done, what the options are,”

That’s basically him saying we need to create space in squad and then see what’s possible.

And will the players we want be made available or are their clubs not able to get their targets.

[TrinityHFC]

They shouldn’t listen to fans when it cones to transfers.

They should have players signed by now.

We shouldn’t be surprised though.

It is a never ending story with Hibernian FC of ‘we need signings in ASAP to bed in when the window opens’ and then we leave it all late.

We’re nearly a week into January. We NEED players in. So get them in.

Same nonsense every window. Demands just to sign anyone as quickly as possible.

Listen to anyone in football talking about how windows / transfer actually work.

[04Sauzee]

St Johnstone sign goalkeeper Andy Fisher on loan from Swansea.

[The Modfather]

Same nonsense every window. Demands just to sign anyone as quickly as possible.

Listen to anyone in football talking about how windows / transfer actually work.

6 of the 10 non Old Firm clubs have brought players in this window. Are they just signing anyone to make a signing as quick as possible?

[04Sauzee]

6 of the 10 non Old Firm clubs have brought players in this window. Are they just signing anyone to make a signing as quick as possible?

This is the latest list I can see although I can see it's already out of date as St Johnstone have announced a signing this evening.

https://spfl.co.uk/news/william-hill-premiership-january-transfers-2025

[The Modfather]

This is the latest list I can see although I can see it's already out of date as St Johnstone have announced a signing this evening.

https://spfl.co.uk/news/william-hill-premiership-january-transfers-2025

7 of the 10 clubs are active in that case. Transfermarket didn’t have the one for Motherwell.

[BILLYHIBS]

Agreed.

I’ve not written Kwon off but he does need to do more - he showed at St Mirren he was decent enough for this league.

Hoilett was also our best player at start of season and still brings quality to the team like his assist for Gayles header.

I am driving past Parkhead tomorrow only too happy to drop Kwon off :greengrin

[inglisavhibs]

Agree with most of this but Ekpiteta is a complete bombscare of a defender and Hoilett is way better than your ‘bad’ rating.
No he isn't, he is a decent defender but his passing is below par. I wonder where all these new players are going to come from ? There are few players in Scotland that would improve us (that we could get), we can't afford English championship players, so we either bring in more players from abroad or take our chances with English league one players. Personally would rather Hibs tried to bring in no more than 3 players to add to the squad we have. Their is a real sign of togetherness around just now and replacing half the team would take us backwards. Hopefully Newell, Bowie, Youan, Ekpiteta and Miko are back soon to give us more options. The last time we told all our players they would be leaving at the end of the season (Butcher) it didn't end well.

[The Spaceman]

No he isn't, he is a decent defender but his passing is below par. I wonder where all these new players are going to come from ? There are few players in Scotland that would improve us (that we could get), we can't afford English championship players, so we either bring in more players from abroad or take our chances with English league one players. Personally would rather Hibs tried to bring in no more than 3 players to add to the squad we have. Their is a real sign of togetherness around just now and replacing half the team would take us backwards. Hopefully Newall, Bowie, Yohan, Ekpiteta and Miko are back soon to give us more options. The last time we told all our players they would be leaving at the end of the season (Butcher) it didn't end well.

Newell. Youan.

[Steve20]

We need a striker, creative midfielder and a centre half.

And I’m sorry for saying this, as I know many have went with hoping rather than actual ability, a first choice keeper. Smith has done okay, but no more and no less. We want to be challenging top 4, smith is a backup keeper. If it’s finishing anywhere from 7th-10th, he’s ok.

[inglisavhibs]

Newell. Youan.
Thanks for that, now corrected

[JimBHibees]

I cant breathe, Rocky and Blackley in the same sentence? :faf:

Indeed 🫢

[Unseen work]

Impossible to criticise the club for lack of signings

We could be signing Allan Campbell tomorrow for all we know

No one is more frustrated than me as I love a rumour and new signing, but we can’t criticise what has/hasn’t been done until the window is closed

[Pedantic_Hibee]

Whilst I’m well aware we need to strengthen, I’m probably as calm as I’ve been going into a transfer window for quite a few years now.

We’re on a good run of form and I’m quite enjoying the attitude and never say die spirit of this rag tag motley crew of frees, veterans, bombscares and journeymen.

[Nevi_SOL]

Impossible to criticise the club for lack of signings

We could be signing Allan Campbell tomorrow for all we know

No one is more frustrated than me as I love a rumour and new signing, but we can’t criticise what has/hasn’t been done until the window is closed


Hasn't played as much as he would've hoped. Not came of the bench the last few weeks 👀👀

[1875godsgift]

Whilst I’m well aware we need to strengthen, I’m probably as calm as I’ve been going into a transfer window for quite a few years now.

We’re on a good run of form and I’m quite enjoying the attitude and never say die spirit of this rag tag motley crew of frees, veterans, bombscares and journeymen.

:agree: It's like 'The Dirty Dozen' all over again.

[Cat Stanton]

We need a striker, creative midfielder and a centre half.

And I’m sorry for saying this, as I know many have went with hoping rather than actual ability, a first choice keeper. Smith has done okay, but no more and no less. We want to be challenging top 4, smith is a backup keeper. If it’s finishing anywhere from 7th-10th, he’s ok.

Agreed x 2

[Stevie Reid]

What do we think the summers hit rate is?

Good - Cadden, Triantis, Iredale, Gayle

Average - Smith, Ekpiteta, O’Hora (Smith & Ekpiteta on the cusp of good?)

Bad - Kwon, Bursic, Myko, Hoilett, McCowan/no alternative fiasco

TBC - Bowie (looked good though)

A mixed bag? At least there’s more sense to the approach. I hope we start to widen our search as it’s still a very insular outlook.

I’ve seen Hibs make many, many, many bad signings in all my years of supporting us.

Hoilett is nowhere near being classed as one.

[Ribs1875]

I’ve seen Hibs make many, many, many bad signings in all my years of supporting us.

Hoilett is nowhere near being classed as one.

The worst signings I've seen are: Joe Keenan, Matt Thornhill, Momodou Bojang, Matt Doherty (in hindsight), Roland Edge, Valdes Trakys............... There's a lot more.

[PHeffernan]

6 of the 10 non Old Firm clubs have brought players in this window. Are they just signing anyone to make a signing as quick as possible?

At this stage of the window it is basically clubs sending out: kids out on loan, deadwood that they are gagging to get rid off, guys with 6 months left on their contracts that they want off the wage bill or they want a chunk of their wages paid and the last group that are available are guys coming back from big injuries and guys not getting a game.

Look at Hibs as an example of loan fare, we are not offering our good players like Joe Newell to clubs.
We are offering Harry the skateboarder, the lesser spotted Amos, Bursik the cabbage handed goalkeeper etc
Hibs have already sent out 2 last 6 monthers that we have no intention of renewing, O'Connor and Kenneh and JDH was given a few bob to bugger off somewhere else.
This is yer typical January loans. The unwanted.

Most interesting loan player into Scotland early in this window has been the guy Okkels in at Aberdeen who hasn't been playing much at Preston so he fits the loan profile and Aberdeen will be paying a pretty penny for his services.

After that you have the 2 guys signed by Hearts.
The guy signed from Belgium has not been doing much at his club so has been lobbed into Scotland, again he fits the early January loan oot profile.
Their other signing is that rare January signing ... a permanent one that had more than 6 months on his contract. Hearts desperately needed a centre half due to injuries and will have paid over the odds for his services including handing a very long contract to McCarthorse himself. I think he is a good signing but not as good a defender as our very own Erik Potato who will be back from injury in 4 weeks.

Don't think we need to speak about the other loan signings to date made by the other clubs in our league unless you can shed light on their special footballing powers.
They all have their wee stories but couldn't see any of them, other than perhaps Zach Hemmings getting in our team and he is only here because he couldn't get a game since October for his latest loan team Leyton Orient.

Our last January window saw the miracle loan that was Maolida and the more typical loaner Marcondes who was both coming back from a long injury and was in the last 6 months of his contract.

Hibs only have one more league game to play in January after Saturday so there is no need to be rushing into getting players in. One new starter who is better than we have currently would be a successful window and that player won't be easy to get hold off. Hibs will be getting offered a lot of frogs in the meantime but best hold out for someone who at least might be a Prince.

[keep the faith]

No he isn't, he is a decent defender but his passing is below par. I wonder where all these new players are going to come from ? There are few players in Scotland that would improve us (that we could get), we can't afford English championship players, so we either bring in more players from abroad or take our chances with English league one players. Personally would rather Hibs tried to bring in no more than 3 players to add to the squad we have. Their is a real sign of togetherness around just now and replacing half the team would take us backwards. Hopefully Newell, Bowie, Youan, Ekpiteta and Miko are back soon to give us more options. The last time we told all our players they would be leaving at the end of the season (Butcher) it didn't end well.

Great post. Some on here love the transfer window and frantic activity, but I think we need to be careful. If we can bring back Joe and Bowie, keep Ellie and move on Mckirdy and Amos, we would only need to make 1, maybe two quality signings to harness the team spirit and momentum we have and move us on.
Add a couple of new contracts (trigger Boyles year option for sure) then Top 4 is not unachievable.

This squad and this manager have shown real character and resilience to turn things around. I like them.

[B.H.F.C]

Great post. Some on here love the transfer window and frantic activity, but I think we need to be careful. If we can bring back Joe and Bowie, keep Ellie and move on Mckirdy and Amos, we would only need to make 1, maybe two quality signings to harness the team spirit and momentum we have and move us on.
Add a couple of new contracts (trigger Boyles year option for sure) then Top 4 is not unachievable.

This squad and this manager have shown real character and resilience to turn things around. I like them.

We need to be careful not to fall in to the trap of thinking things are better than they are IMO.

Things have been much improved of late but it’s 6 wins from 22 games. I don’t think we need to go out and sign half a team but at least a couple of players are needed to see us through a the rest of the season. Pretty fine line between pushing for Europe or being back in trouble. With how few games are actually left, I hope we act quickly.

[PHeffernan]

St Johnstone sign goalkeeper Andy Fisher on loan from Swansea.

Fisher must be an improvement for St J.
They need to sign some defenders now.

[Callum_62]

Hearts first "data" signing Salazar returns to his parent club after playing less than 90 minutes for them

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[JimBHibees]

I’ve seen Hibs make many, many, many bad signings in all my years of supporting us.

Hoilett is nowhere near being classed as one.

Don’t think Myko is either

[flash]

Don’t think Myko is either

Would like to see Myko now we are playing a lot better.

Clearly needs to improve on what we have seen from him so far but I won't be writing him off just yet.

[S4uzee]

Would like to see Myko now we are playing a lot better.

Clearly needs to improve on what we have seen from him so far but I won't be writing him off just yet.

Interestingly, our results seem to have improved when he’s been out except Motherwell away. I like him and would keep him til the end of the season

[flash]

Interestingly, our results seem to have improved when he’s been out except Motherwell away. I like him and would keep him til the end of the season

Even just as a bench option he would give us something nobody else does currently.

[AlbertK86]

Would like to see Myko now we are playing a lot better.

Clearly needs to improve on what we have seen from him so far but I won't be writing him off just yet.

Think 2 up front in this system will suit him far better


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[theonlywayisup]

Yes, I agree with your post, especially the last sentence.

IMO, I think we will try and get rid of the unwanted over the next couple of weeks and then take stock of where we are, albeit working in the background to see what our options are. I'd hope this includes some promising youngsters or returning from injury 'star' from the Black Knight network of clubs. Add to that, we have our own returning from injury players that will feel like new signings.

I think the summer 2025 transfer window will be a much more interesting transfer window, with so many players leaving the Hibees. I'd like to think the quality of player coming in will be of a much higher quality than those that will be leaving.

Until summer 2025, if we could get someone on loan like Maolida this month then I'll be happy.


At this stage of the window it is basically clubs sending out: kids out on loan, deadwood that they are gagging to get rid off, guys with 6 months left on their contracts that they want off the wage bill or they want a chunk of their wages paid and the last group that are available are guys coming back from big injuries and guys not getting a game.

Look at Hibs as an example of loan fare, we are not offering our good players like Joe Newell to clubs.
We are offering Harry the skateboarder, the lesser spotted Amos, Bursik the cabbage handed goalkeeper etc
Hibs have already sent out 2 last 6 monthers that we have no intention of renewing, O'Connor and Kenneh and JDH was given a few bob to bugger off somewhere else.
This is yer typical January loans. The unwanted.

Most interesting loan player into Scotland early in this window has been the guy Okkels in at Aberdeen who hasn't been playing much at Preston so he fits the loan profile and Aberdeen will be paying a pretty penny for his services.

After that you have the 2 guys signed by Hearts.
The guy signed from Belgium has not been doing much at his club so has been lobbed into Scotland, again he fits the early January loan oot profile.
Their other signing is that rare January signing ... a permanent one that had more than 6 months on his contract. Hearts desperately needed a centre half due to injuries and will have paid over the odds for his services including handing a very long contract to McCarthorse himself. I think he is a good signing but not as good a defender as our very own Erik Potato who will be back from injury in 4 weeks.

Don't think we need to speak about the other loan signings to date made by the other clubs in our league unless you can shed light on their special footballing powers.
They all have their wee stories but couldn't see any of them, other than perhaps Zach Hemmings getting in our team and he is only here because he couldn't get a game since October for his latest loan team Leyton Orient.

Our last January window saw the miracle loan that was Maolida and the more typical loaner Marcondes who was both coming back from a long injury and was in the last 6 months of his contract.

Hibs only have one more league game to play in January after Saturday so there is no need to be rushing into getting players in. One new starter who is better than we have currently would be a successful window and that player won't be easy to get hold off. Hibs will be getting offered a lot of frogs in the meantime but best hold out for someone who at least might be a Prince.

[Ardenttwo]

I am driving past Parkhead tomorrow only too happy to drop Kwon off :greengrin


Yes please.

[Alex Trager]

We need to be careful not to fall in to the trap of thinking things are better than they are IMO.

Things have been much improved of late but it’s 6 wins from 22 games. I don’t think we need to go out and sign half a team but at least a couple of players are needed to see us through a the rest of the season. Pretty fine line between pushing for Europe or being back in trouble. With how few games are actually left, I hope we act quickly.

This is how I see things.

This team have had an upturn in form, and are probably sitting around where they should be performance wise over the season. There were a good few games we never got what we deserved, or had individual errors that meant we never won or got beat.

We are sat in seventh, but we are both 3 points clear of the playoff and 8 behind third place. Both of they facts are incentive enough for me to think we should be bringing people in already.

It is probably fair to say that we are in a position (the same as every club) that nearly every game is a must win.

The squad is OK, but the team at the minute is down to the bare bones. We need better.

Hibernian FC should never accept finishing in the bottom six, never mind worse, go and improve the team now and give yourself the best chance of catching third or a European spot.

[SHODAN]

Agree with most of this but Ekpiteta is a complete bombscare of a defender and Hoilett is way better than your ‘bad’ rating.

There's that word again.

[Hibernian Verse]

There's that word again.

There tends to be a recurring theme when it's used.

[Jones28]

We need to be careful not to fall in to the trap of thinking things are better than they are IMO.

Things have been much improved of late but it’s 6 wins from 22 games. I don’t think we need to go out and sign half a team but at least a couple of players are needed to see us through a the rest of the season. Pretty fine line between pushing for Europe or being back in trouble. With how few games are actually left, I hope we act quickly.

:agree:

Some carefully selected, ready to go signings are vital IMO. If Newall needs an operation, Youan moves on, Gayle can't do 90 minutes week on week and the attacking options off the bench are McKirdy it's clear we need to make some additions.

We are already improvising in defence and another injury is a problem, if Miller for example got injured we are looking at another defensive reshuffle.

A back up goalkeeper is another essential, I'd like to see a youngster get a shout against Clyde if any were available.

[Hibernian Verse]

We need a striker, creative midfielder and a centre half.

And I’m sorry for saying this, as I know many have went with hoping rather than actual ability, a first choice keeper. Smith has done okay, but no more and no less. We want to be challenging top 4, smith is a backup keeper. If it’s finishing anywhere from 7th-10th, he’s ok.

Smith has done much better than OK, he has the third best save percentage in the league and has faced both Rangers & Celtic in the games he's played.

Only two goalkeepers are outperforming our "okay, but no more and no less" goalkeeper - Schmeichel & Walton.

His distribution is also very good. I'm not sure how much better a goalie we are going to be able to attract to the club.

[Smartie]

There's that word again.

He's also anything but a bombscare.

After a couple of very early passback incidents as he got to grips with playing in a new league with an awful goalkeeper he went on to look like a really solid defender to me, even when the team was playing worse than it is now.

He slots in neatly at RCB alongside Rocky and Iredale for me, and the back 3 will look really pretty solid.

I think I'd want to see that arrangement for a few games with Smith behind them before deciding on how good an idea a new contract for Rocky and accepting Smith as a long term number one might be. I'm very open to both being acceptable though.

[Jones28]

Smith has done much better than OK, he has the third best save percentage in the league and has faced both Rangers & Celtic in the games he's played.

Only two goalkeepers are outperforming our "okay, but no more and no less" goalkeeper - Schmeichel & Walton.

His distribution is also very good. I'm not sure how much better a goalie we are going to be able to attract to the club.

Pfft, stupid facts getting in the way of an argument.

[The Modfather]

There tends to be a recurring theme when it's used.

What’s the recurring theme between the likes of Chris Hogg, Rob Jones, Rocky, Miller & Ekpiteta?

[Hibby70]

There tends to be a recurring theme when it's used.

Bamba, Ambrose, Rocky and now Ekpiteta. Have I missed anyone?

They are all centre halves but is there anything else they have in common I wonder?

[The Spaceman]

Bamba, Ambrose, Rocky and now Ekpiteta. Have I missed anyone?

They are all centre halves but is there anything else they have in common I wonder?

Makalamby.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Bamba, Ambrose, Rocky and now Ekpiteta. Have I missed anyone?

They are all centre halves but is there anything else they have in common I wonder?

Yes. You’ve missed all the white players, likely deliberately.

Porteous got called a bombscare more than anyone I can remember. Chris Hogg was regularly declared a bombscare. Ryan Mcgivern, Michael Nelson, Malkowski, all bombscares. Cabraja, a bombscare. Mark Oxley? A bombscare. Scott Robertson, a bombscare. Gary Caldwell, a bombscare. Tim Clancy and George Francomb, both bombscares. James McPake? You guessed it. A bombscare.

Moving away from Hibs, Harry Maguire, a bombscare. A quick search on here shows Declan Gallagher described as a bombscare whilst playing for Scotland. David Luiz, bombscare. Zaliukas at Hearts? Bombscare. Zander Diamond, bombscare. Crawford Allan the white referee, a bombscare.

So if you’re looking for things they have in common, I’d suggest it’s that they’re almost always goalkeepers and defenders.

[easty]

Bamba, Ambrose, Rocky and now Ekpiteta. Have I missed anyone?

They are all centre halves but is there anything else they have in common I wonder?

Yeah, you've missed loads.

This absolutely ridiculous issue comes up periodically on here for some reason. If you want to see how much "bombscare" isn't just used for black players, then it's simple. Search for the term "bombscare" on this site. You'll get lots of names associated with it.

[Smartie]

Bamba, Ambrose, Rocky and now Ekpiteta. Have I missed anyone?

They are all centre halves but is there anything else they have in common I wonder?

Bamba and Ambrose brought the reputation with them from other clubs. In a Hibs shirt neither player was anything close to being a bombscare.

After the passbacks at St Mirren and Celtic I must admit it wasn't looking great for Ekpiteta but he has since gone on to look really solid and anything but a bombscare.

Maybe the aftermath of the Rangers game isn't the fairest of times to discuss Rocky, but every time he seems to be putting a good run of form together out comes another moment that means there is probably some justification for using the tag.

I still maintain Porteous is as big a bombscare as we've had. Generally dependable and no doubt a good player, costly lapses in concentration, rashness and terrible decisions at key moments were always just around the corner. He was a little bit of "screwing the nut" away from being as good a defender as we've had in decades, however...

[Hibernian Verse]

What’s the recurring theme between the likes of Chris Hogg, Rob Jones, Rocky, Miller & Ekpiteta?

Sorry I can't remember any posts describing Hogg, Jones or Miller as bombscares I may have missed them.

[Hibernian Verse]

I've tried the search function but it's only coming up with full threads I'm not sure how to check individual posts other than trolling through which I've not got time to do.

There are numerous match threads and others containing the word, so it could be anyone admittedly. Other than that the individual player threads on the first results page containing bombscare are;

Rocky: Should he stay or should he go?
Ekpiteta out for 10 weeks
Elie Youan
Rocky
Bushiri
Jair Tavares

[The Modfather]

Sorry I can't remember any posts describing Hogg, Jones or Miller as bombscares I may have missed them.

Doing a search for the word bombscare and on the first page of results there’s threads, alongside Bamba and Rocky, talking about Graham Stack & Steven Presley being bombscares. I didn’t look past a cursory glance of the first page of results.

What is the common theme you were talking about?

[Hibernian Verse]

Doing a search for the word bombscare and on the first page of results there’s threads, alongside Bamba and Rocky, talking about Graham Stack & Steven Presley being bombscares. I didn’t look past a cursory glance of the first page of results.

What is the common theme you were talking about?

That's not what's coming up on the first page of results on mine. I think you're aware that I was referencing that it was aimed at our black defenders, however if you're seeing evidence to the contrary I will accept that as fact no problem.

Looks like it wasn't just me seeing the theme though, a few posts quoting mine back that up.

[Paulie Walnuts]

That's not what's coming up on the first page of results on mine. I think you're aware that I was referencing that it was aimed at our black defenders, however if you're seeing evidence to the contrary I will accept that as fact no problem.

Looks like it wasn't just me seeing the theme though, a few posts quoting mine back that up.

I’ve searched the word bombscare. Going back 9 pages there’s easily more white players names than black players mentioned.

The theme you’ve seen isn’t a theme. It’s a myth that is regularly suggested on here and is easily disproven.

[Hibernian Verse]

I’ve searched the word bombscare. Going back 9 pages there’s easily more white players names than black players mentioned.

The theme you’ve seen isn’t a theme. It’s a myth that is regularly suggested on here.

Ok Stubbsy, as I say willing to accept any findings.

[easty]

I've tried the search function but it's only coming up with full threads I'm not sure how to check individual posts other than trolling through which I've not got time to do.

There are numerous match threads and others containing the word, so it could be anyone admittedly. Other than that the individual player threads on the first results page containing bombscare are;

Rocky: Should he stay or should he go?
Ekpiteta out for 10 weeks
Elie Youan
Rocky
Bushiri
Jair Tavares

Cadden - https://www.hibs.net/showthread.php?359858-Aberdeen-v-Hibernian/page23&highlight=fish+%2B+bombscare

Will Fish - https://www.hibs.net/showthread.php?363657-We-re-in-real-bother-here-aren-t-we/page2&highlight=bombscare

Jack Iredale - https://www.hibs.net/showthread.php?366542-Summer-transfer-thread-2024-25&p=7761823&highlight=BOMBSCARE#post7761823

Triantis - https://www.hibs.net/showthread.php?365423-Hibernian-v-Celtic&p=7578795&highlight=BOMBSCARE#post7578795

Here's a link to a post I made on it earlier, which has links to Berra, Stack, Pressley, Jones, Hanlon and Whittaker all being called bombscares tae. https://www.hibs.net/showthread.php?364711-Winter-transfer-thread-2023-24&p=7557518&highlight=BOMBSCARE#post7557518

[easty]

Ok Stubbsy, as I say willing to accept any findings.

Bit sad that Hibs fans on a Hibs forum require "findings" to accept that Hibs fans on a Hibs forum aren't targeting black players with different abuse to white players...in my opinion.

But that's your "findings" posted for you.

[MacGruber]

Bamba, Ambrose, Rocky and now Ekpiteta. Have I missed anyone?

They are all centre halves but is there anything else they have in common I wonder?

They all identify as male?

[Hibernian Verse]

Bit sad that Hibs fans on a Hibs forum require "findings" to accept that Hibs fans on a Hibs forum aren't targeting black players with different abuse to white players...in my opinion.

But that's your "findings" posted for you.

I tend to try and base what I think on facts, so I have found some and you have found some (and PW and Modfather too) and you've disproved what a few of us thought we could see.

I said above I wasn't sure how to check individual posts.

It's a positive thing to be able to look at information and change your mind...in my opinion.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Ok Stubbsy, as I say willing to accept any findings.

As someone who’s incredible bored at work, we have:

Rocky
Ekpiteta
Jair
Porteous
Cabraja
Bamba
Declan Gallagher
Efe
Omeonga
McPake
Stokes
Izaguirre
Lennon
Hanlon
Fyvie
Oxley
McGivern
McGeough
Scott Robertson
David Luiz
Gary Caldwell
Zaliukas
Kevin Thomson
Balotelli
Crawford Allan the ref :faf:
Tim Clancy
Osbourne
Claros
George Francomb
Kujabi
Zander Diamond
Rob Jones
Chris Hogg
Majstorovic

Lost the will to go further back, but it’s a list heavily populated with white players

[at last 61]

Getting back to rumours anyone 😁

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

There tends to be a recurring theme when it's used.

🍿

[Hibernian Verse]

🍿

You're too late!

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

You're too late!

Aye, I should've read the rest of the thread, give it a week and someone else will come out with the same pish re bomb scares.

[Donegal Hibby]

Huns rumoured to be trying to sign Nikola Katic again.

[Unseen work]

Surely Bursik has been called a bombscare?!

Sure I’ve heard Triantis, Miller, Smith and O’Hora get called it too

Re Ekpiteta, I just don’t think he’s a bombscare at all. I really rate him as a centre half and think he’ll be really important for us when he’s back. His mistakes have been two pass backs, one v Celtic and one b st Mirren. The one v Celtic I think Bursik should be alot braver and go through ball and man.

Since those two mistakes he’s learned massively. Really good in the air, really good 1v1 defending and can dominate the opposition striker

Put him centre in the back 3, Iredale on the left and potentially Rocky on the right

[JimBHibees]

Surely Bursik has been called a bombscare?!

Sure I’ve heard Triantis, Miller, Smith and O’Hora get called it too

Re Ekpiteta, I just don’t think he’s a bombscare at all. I really rate him as a centre half and think he’ll be really important for us when he’s back. His mistakes have been two pass backs, one v Celtic and one b st Mirren. The one v Celtic I think Bursik should be alot braver and go through ball and man.

Since those two mistakes he’s learned massively. Really good in the air, really good 1v1 defending and can dominate the opposition striker

Put him centre in the back 3, Iredale on the left and potentially Rocky on the right

Agree was really coming on to a game when he got injured.

[badabing67]

Any rumours about @HibernianFC moving to Blue Sky. Getting bored to death of Elon Musk. Please save me form this Hibs.

[keep the faith]

Any rumours about @HibernianFC moving to Blue Sky. Getting bored to death of Elon Musk. Please save me form this Hibs.

I have e mailed on this too. Deactivated twitter a few months ago and sure many more have done the same.

Hopefully hibs will have a blue-sky account soon.

[Ozyhibby]

I have e mailed on this too. Deactivated twitter a few months ago and sure many more have done the same.

Hopefully hibs will have a blue-sky account soon.

Same. Blue sky is way better anyway but it could do with Hibs joining.


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[keep the faith]

Same. Blue sky is way better anyway but it could do with Hibs joining.


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It's a breath of fresh air after the toxic environment of twitter.
I will let you know if club replies.

[MrSmith]

Same. Blue sky is way better anyway but it could do with Hibs joining.


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Blue Sky is great and full of like minded rational folks. I guess because it is set up by the original Twitter dude, it will follow the same policies the original Twitter used to have.

[bingo70]

Blue Sky is great and full of like minded rational folks. I guess because it is set up by the original Twitter dude, it will follow the same policies the original Twitter used to have.

Full of like minded rational folk. Is that not just an echo chamber? I think it’s healthy to know what the lunatics are saying as well.

FWIW, in my opinion there’s normally a middle ground somewhere and it’s unlikely to be as black and white as X = bad and blue sky = good.

[badabing67]

I have e mailed on this too. Deactivated twitter a few months ago and sure many more have done the same.

Hopefully hibs will have a blue-sky account soon.


The Hibee Podcast family already made the move, the Club needs to follow.

[JeMeSouviens]

Full of like minded rational folk. Is that not just an echo chamber? I think it’s healthy to know what the lunatics are saying as well.

FWIW, in my opinion there’s normally a middle ground somewhere and it’s unlikely to be as black and white as X = bad and blue sky = good.

Good and bad obvs in the eye of the beholder but in terms of politics at least, Xitter is pretty much a hard-right free for all now and blue sky all cuddly progressives. It's a bit like sickbag and here. Decades ago there was a mix of Hibs and Hearts on both. The mix became increasingly toxic and eventually separation became inevitable.

[MrSmith]

Full of like minded rational folk. Is that not just an echo chamber? I think it’s healthy to know what the lunatics are saying as well.

FWIW, in my opinion there’s normally a middle ground somewhere and it’s unlikely to be as black and white as X = bad and blue sky = good.

Yeah it can be a bit dull at times but when it comes to the right wing nutters, I'm glad not to converse with them anymore.

[Jones28]

Full of like minded rational folk. Is that not just an echo chamber? I think it’s healthy to know what the lunatics are saying as well.

FWIW, in my opinion there’s normally a middle ground somewhere and it’s unlikely to be as black and white as X = bad and blue sky = good.

Unverified, non-fact checked lies on a platform run by an increasingly unstable nutter can probably be now classified as bad no?

Facebook now going the same way, fact checking is ending and they have also added AI profiles? WTF for?

Disassociate with all these platforms and let them become an echo-chamber of lies and conspiracy theories is the only way.

[andrew70]

https://open.substack.com/pub/andrewjeffrey/p/lyall-cameron?r=2f20qe&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Why Lyall Cameron could be the perfect fit for Hibernian?

[Centre Hawf]

Full of like minded rational folk. Is that not just an echo chamber? I think it’s healthy to know what the lunatics are saying as well.

FWIW, in my opinion there’s normally a middle ground somewhere and it’s unlikely to be as black and white as X = bad and blue sky = good.

Each to their own obviously but I can't stomach the rhetoric on Twitter/X anymore. The place is an argumentative cesspit and that's before you get down rabbit holes of reading some of the most bigoted nonsense.

I won't tell people to not to use Twitter because I still do as I find its still useful for sports news/updates. But I am slowly migrating myself over to Bluesky as it improves.

[Bostonhibby]

Hearts first "data" signing Salazar returns to his parent club after playing less than 90 minutes for them

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[blackpoolhibs]

I do admire anyone who happens to mention the word bombscare on here, as you know certain posters will try and use the racist card against them, when the evidence is clear that its used for mainly defenders who make an arse of themselves with a football.:crazy:

[hibsbollah]

Each to their own obviously but I can't stomach the rhetoric on Twitter/X anymore. The place is an argumentative cesspit and that's before you get down rabbit holes of reading some of the most bigoted nonsense.

I won't tell people to not to use Twitter because I still do as I find its still useful for sports news/updates. But I am slowly migrating myself over to Bluesky as it improves.

I’m on bluesky. I only very occasionally used to have a look on Twitter anyway, but its like a breath of fresh air, the functionality is very similar but its just a friendlier place. And its no so much a left-right polarisation, its a fact-based approach with scientific rigour vs conspiracy and bullying. I can read scientific and environmental stuff and know that proper academics 100% contributed.

[badabing67]

Good and bad obvs in the eye of the beholder but in terms of politics at least, Xitter is pretty much a hard-right free for all now and blue sky all cuddly progressives. It's a bit like sickbag and here. Decades ago there was a mix of Hibs and Hearts on both. The mix became increasingly toxic and eventually separation became inevitable.


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[GreenCastle]

Regarding the squad I always think you’re only as good as your bench.

Last few games we have been down to the bare bones and it’s not exactly any different to other seasons where we have injured players.

Injuries / suspensions happen - but we have to be careful we don’t just sit on a few really good wins - we need to push on and ideally add someone like Nicky Cadden who is a starter and will contribute.

I agree it’s been great seeing the squad come together and I think the last thing we need is the wrong person upsetting the changing room but as a minimum a goalkeeper needs to be signed to challenge for number 1 / start in future or even just put Bursik to 3rd choice / back to parent club.

Bowie and Myko - fine but will take time to get up to speed.

Gayle has shown when we have a proper centre forward how much better we look. A Keatings - Cummings / Gayle type is needed as Gayle isn’t playing 90 mins every game.

Energy in midfield also needed - but we also need a proper CDM to pick up cut backs which teams seem to be scoring against us with.

[Pretty Boy]

Just me who is fairly relaxed about our activity or lack thereof?

We need reinforcements but I'm not sure we need to be panicking. We have players to come back in who will be starters in time and a couple of others who will improve the bench. I'd honestly be more concerned if we were announcing contract extensions and new signings left, right and centre.

I've said it when discussing offering certain players new contracts but we have an unprecedented opportunity to totally reshape our squad whilst still having a core of good players to build around/supplement new arrivals. We need to be methodical, sensible and maybe a wee bit ruthless too. The signs were there last summer that we have learned some lessons and our hit rate in that window was pretty decent. For all it's a cliche January isn't always a window in which you get value.

We will add players; they will likely be predominantly loans but I'm pretty relaxed about what we have and what we will add. If we get deep into the summer window and haven't done much business then I will join in with the concern. We will have been gearing up for that window for the best part of a year if not longer by the time it comes around and long delays will have alarm bells ringing. This month I'm expecting 2 or 3 stop gaps and I expect them to be in the last few days of the month.

[Ozyhibby]

Full of like minded rational folk. Is that not just an echo chamber? I think it’s healthy to know what the lunatics are saying as well.

FWIW, in my opinion there’s normally a middle ground somewhere and it’s unlikely to be as black and white as X = bad and blue sky = good.

I don’t really want discussion on it anyway. I just go for links to news articles. I only want to read the people I follow and not have far right nut jobs appear in front of me all the time. I see it as a news aggregator and not a discussion forum.


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[Smartie]

Just me who is fairly relaxed about our activity or lack thereof?

We need reinforcements but I'm not sure we need to be panicking. We have players to come back in who will be starters in time and a couple of others who will improve the bench. I'd honestly be more concerned if we were announcing contract extensions and new signings left, right and centre.

I've said it when discussing offering certain players new contracts but we have an unprecedented opportunity to totally reshape our squad whilst still having a core of good players to build around/supplement new arrivals. We need to be methodical, sensible and maybe a wee bit ruthless too. The signs were there last summer that we have learned some lessons and our hit rate in that window was pretty decent. For all it's a cliche January isn't always a window in which you get value.

We will add players; they will likely be predominantly loans but I'm pretty relaxed about what we have and what we will add. If we get deep into the summer window and haven't done much business then I will join in with the concern. We will have been gearing up for that window for the best part of a year if not longer by the time it comes around and long delays will have alarm bells ringing. This month I'm expecting 2 or 3 stop gaps and I expect them to be in the last few days of the month.

I think our first XI looks fine but I do have issues with our wider squad.

I don’t actually want to break up our first choice 13 or so players right now. I like them all and they’re immensely watchable. I think I’d feel upset for Smith, Rocky, Campbell or N.Cadden (same could be said for any player, really) if for whatever reason we saw fit to bring someone in ahead of them. They’ve earned their places from the fringes, have played a huge part in our revival and deserve better than to be discarded now.

Our last 2 games have seen us down to the bare bones though. An argument could be made that dropping points against a poor St Johnstone side and a “very much there for the taking” Rangers team were poor results, and with “fine margins” being in fashion, those 4 points could ultimately prove very costly. Fine and understandable over 2 games but I don’t know if I’d want to see us have to hobble through to the end of the season without reinforcements.

How do we look if we get an injury to Smith? Or Triantis, or Boyle, or even if we had to do without Gayle if he tweaked one of those elderly hamstrings? Those cameos have won us a lot of points.

The panic that we were maybe feeling back in November or so has most definitely left the building though.

[Lago]

Yeah, you've missed loads.

This absolutely ridiculous issue comes up periodically on here for some reason. If you want to see how much "bombscare" isn't just used for black players, then it's simple. Search for the term "bombscare" on this site. You'll get lots of names associated with it.
That wouldn't fit the narrative 🤔

[Unseen work]

Aberdeen signing the Latvia captain for 800k

Kristers Tobers, 24 year old centre half from Grasshoppers

Also linked with Norwegian striker Oscar Aga

[Smartie]

Aberdeen signing the Latvia captain for 800k

Kristers Tobers, 24 year old centre half from Grasshoppers

Without knowing other than what is within your post, this sounds like a good signing.

[hibsbollah]

Aberdeen signing the Latvia captain for 800k

Kristers Tobers, 24 year old centre half from Grasshoppers

Also linked with Norwegian striker Oscar Aga

Bombscare

[Since452]

Bombscare

Racist

[Donegal Hibby]

Smith has done much better than OK, he has the third best save percentage in the league and has faced both Rangers & Celtic in the games he's played.

Only two goalkeepers are outperforming our "okay, but no more and no less" goalkeeper - Schmeichel & Walton.

His distribution is also very good. I'm not sure how much better a goalie we are going to be able to attract to the club.

Quite an improvement from Marshall and Bursik , think Marshall was just over 60 percent and wouldn’t have thought Bursik had much either.

[Pretty Boy]

I think our first XI looks fine but I do have issues with our wider squad.

I don’t actually want to break up our first choice 13 or so players right now. I like them all and they’re immensely watchable.

Our last 2 games have seen us down to the bare bones though. An argument could be made that dropping points against a poor St Johnstone side and a “very much there for the taking” Rangers team were poor results, and with “fine margins” being in fashion, those 4 points could ultimately prove very costly. Fine and understandable over 2 games but I don’t know if I’d want to see us have to hobble through to the end of the season without reinforcements.

How do we look if we get an injury to Smith? Or Triantis, or Boyle, or even if we had to do without Gayle if he tweaked one of those elderly hamstrings.

The panic that we were maybe feeling back in November or so has most definitely left the building though.

I definitely think we need to bring players in and a keeper, midfielder and striker would be the 3 I would go for. If we could add another defender then all the better.

I do think the bench improves markedly in the coming weeks when Bowie, Myko, Ekpiteta and Newell come back though. Suddenly your options from the bench are Rocky, Miller, Kwon, Bowie and Myko rather than Levitt, Amos and McKirdy.

I'm usually jumping up and down wanting players in early and I'll be at the front of the queue again in the summer if it's not happening but I always felt this season was a transitional one (a genuine one rather than an excuse trotted out for a crap one) and I'd rather 2 or 3 loans came in now over handing out contracts to players we aren't as close to 100% about as you ever can be.

[hibsbollah]

Racist

Is he? Get him to fuvk then :agree:

[Smartie]

I definitely think we need to bring players in and a keeper, midfielder and striker would be the 3 I would go for. If we could add another defender then all the better.

I do think the bench improves markedly in the coming weeks when Bowie, Myko, Ekpiteta and Newell come back though. Suddenly your options from the bench are Rocky, Miller, Kwon, Bowie and Myko rather than Levitt, Amos and McKirdy.

I'm usually jumping up and down wanting players in early and I'll be at the front of the queue again in the summer if it's not happening but I always felt this season was a transitional one (a genuine one rather than an excuse trotted out for a crap one) and I'd rather 2 or 3 loans came in now over handing out contracts to players we aren't as close to 100% about as you ever can be.

Couldn’t agree more, on every point.

[Hibernian Verse]

Quite an improvement from Marshall and Bursik , think Marshall was just over 60 percent and wouldn’t have thought Bursik had much either.

59.2%

[Unseen work]

I definitely think we need to bring players in and a keeper, midfielder and striker would be the 3 I would go for. If we could add another defender then all the better.

I do think the bench improves markedly in the coming weeks when Bowie, Myko, Ekpiteta and Newell come back though. Suddenly your options from the bench are Rocky, Miller, Kwon, Bowie and Myko rather than Levitt, Amos and McKirdy.

I'm usually jumping up and down wanting players in early and I'll be at the front of the queue again in the summer if it's not happening but I always felt this season was a transitional one (a genuine one rather than an excuse trotted out for a crap one) and I'd rather 2 or 3 loans came in now over handing out contracts to players we aren't as close to 100% about as you ever can be.

Yep, would rather wait to get some Maolida and Marcondes quality rather than rushing out and getting players in for the sake of it

Whoever comes in, needs to be a starter. We’ve plenty squad fillers

[Not In The Know]

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Why Lyall Cameron could be the perfect fit for Hibernian?


how long left on his contract?

[Not In The Know]

Yeah, in the Jan window you either pay a significant premium to get players in on the 1st Jan or you play the game a bit and wait until the end of the window for a wildcard like we did last year.

We do tho need another CH AM & CF...

[BILLYHIBS]

Surely Bursik has been called a bombscare?!

Sure I’ve heard Triantis, Miller, Smith and O’Hora get called it too

Re Ekpiteta, I just don’t think he’s a bombscare at all. I really rate him as a centre half and think he’ll be really important for us when he’s back. His mistakes have been two pass backs, one v Celtic and one b st Mirren. The one v Celtic I think Bursik should be alot braver and go through ball and man.

Since those two mistakes he’s learned massively. Really good in the air, really good 1v1 defending and can dominate the opposition striker

Put him centre in the back 3, Iredale on the left and potentially Rocky on the right

Probably our best back three

Ekpetita really good at clearing his lines and heading clear ( Rocky take note ) not so good at passing the ball forward

Will be like a new signing

[we are hibs]

I see Bournemouth are 2 strikers down, one with a broken foot and another with a ACL injury. Maybe we can loan them McKirdy..

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[superfurryhibby]

Full of like minded rational folk. Is that not just an echo chamber? I think it’s healthy to know what the lunatics are saying as well.

FWIW, in my opinion there’s normally a middle ground somewhere and it’s unlikely to be as black and white as X = bad and blue sky = good.

I've stopped using X, it's not good for my morale to support a platform owned by a reckless, scaremongering, fascist.

If you want to know what the lunatics are saying, dive into the Holy Ground on here, always very informative.

[Vini1875]

We really do need to strengthen. Given current form we are looking up and considering how tight the league is 3rd is not out of the question, but equally a few losses and 11th is just as realistic. I would be happy with a mix of loans and signings. The time to strengthen is when things are on the up. The present team seems to have a good bond and so hopefully new players can only spur them on to even better performances. We are very thin on quality and the drop off when the likes of Newell is out and Kwon steps in is huge, McKirdy for Gayle etc. I would ideally like 3 or 4 to come in, who are at the very least better or as good as our first choice 11.

[hibsbollah]

I've stopped using X, it's not good for my morale to support a platform owned by a reckless, scaremongering, fascist.

If you want to know what the lunatics are saying, dive into the Holy Ground on here, always very informative.

They are empowered. Trump has them believing they can say whatever they want. A total misapplication of the right to free speech of course.

[erin go bragh]

We're desperately in need of a creative midfielder and another pacy winger if Youhan is going.

[Ozyhibby]

I've stopped using X, it's not good for my morale to support a platform owned by a reckless, scaremongering, fascist.

If you want to know what the lunatics are saying, dive into the Holy Ground on here, always very informative.

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[easty]

They are empowered. Trump has them believing they can say whatever they want. A total misapplication of the right to free speech of course.

Well, to an extent. They want free speech until it bothers them. They want to be able to say what they want about who they want and hide behind "free speech", but Keir Starmer uses the words "far right" and they kick off like a bunch of babies.

[Mischa1875]

Well, to an extent. They want free speech until it bothers them. They want to be able to say what they want about who they want and hide behind "free speech", but Keir Starmer uses the words "far right" and they kick off like a bunch of babies. and the transfer news here is what?

[Mcbizz1998]

Any chance we can discuss transfers?

[keep the faith]

and the transfer news here is what?

Release twitter and bring in bluesky in the Jan window. Will certainly improve morale and wellbeing accross the club!

[Mcbizz1998]

Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Bluesky - no self respecting adult should be on them anyway!

Hibs.net only!!! Transfers please!

[Alex Trager]

Yeah, in the Jan window you either pay a significant premium to get players in on the 1st Jan or you play the game a bit and wait until the end of the window for a wildcard like we did last year.

We do tho need another CH AM & CF...
Is that not exactly the same as the summer window according to folk on here?

Pay the premium, get the player.

Prevents another Luke McCowan situation.

[matty_f]

Good and bad obvs in the eye of the beholder but in terms of politics at least, Xitter is pretty much a hard-right free for all now and blue sky all cuddly progressives. It's a bit like sickbag and here. Decades ago there was a mix of Hibs and Hearts on both. The mix became increasingly toxic and eventually separation became inevitable.

Every time I open Twitter/X I feel like there a very deliberate narrative pushed, stuff that is awful, imho, frequently pushed onto my feed.

Onto transfers, this is the quietest window in ages, I’ve not heard a peep of anything substantial yet.

[J-C]

Pages and pages of BS re social media.

[Craig_HFC]

Always makes me laugh when a transfer thread gets de-railed because there's no transfers to discuss and then people moan about getting the thread back on track which only ensures that the the off-topic conversation continues.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Bluesky - no self respecting adult should be on them anyway!

Hibs.net only!!! Transfers please!

Good shout. 👏

[tonyrougier123]

Hibs looking for any left wingers? Plenty on here.🤭
In all seriousness quite depressing coming on here to read stories about Hibs/transfers and folk deciding it’s better to push political views and social media reviews whilst calling fellow posters “lunatics”

Stay away from social media if you can’t handle opposing views on the mentioned platforms.

We gather together on here in unity all things Hibernian surely?………..well saying that 🤔😂

[hibsbollah]

Theres nothing happening. A few teams have swapped goalies in ligue 1 today.Brice Samba, ex-Forest among them.

[nonshinyfinish]

Stay away from social media if you can’t handle opposing views on the mentioned platforms.

Does this advice also apply if you can't handle the content of the transfer thread?

[CropleyWasGod]

Theres nothing happening. A few teams have swapped goalies in ligue 1 today.Brice Samba, ex-Forest among them.

Getting away from the politics, is there room for a pun-fest instead?

I take it he's got lovely feet.

[Jones28]

Getting away from the politics, is there room for a pun-fest instead?

I take it he's got lovely feet.

Everyone seems to be dancing around the issue.

[tonyrougier123]

Does this advice also apply if you can't handle the content of the transfer thread?

Yes if you don’t like the transfer stories my advice would be stay away from the transfer thread also.

[Smartie]

Yeah, in the Jan window you either pay a significant premium to get players in on the 1st Jan or you play the game a bit and wait until the end of the window for a wildcard like we did last year.

We do tho need another CH AM & CF...

Are there not clubs higher up the food chain than us who will have their equivalent of Kenneh and JDH and who will be keen to offload, therefore fairly easy to do business with?

[Not In The Know]

Are there not clubs higher up the food chain than us who will have their equivalent of Kenneh and JDH and who will be keen to offload, therefore fairly easy to do business with?

Not great examples...:wink: but I know what you mean and you would hope so, but you still have to offer more than other teams to secure them early doors.

[Centre Hawf]

Are there not clubs higher up the food chain than us who will have their equivalent of Kenneh and JDH and who will be keen to offload, therefore fairly easy to do business with?

Yes. Marcondes and Maolida were examples of that. But we won't be the only clubs interested in these players and we all might be trying to work out how to afford them.

[hibsbollah]

Getting away from the politics, is there room for a pun-fest instead?

I take it he's got lovely feet.

Huge. Size 14s. Like a Funny Feet ice lolly (from the 1970s, not the woke little ones you get nowadays).

[Prof. Shaggy]

Getting away from the politics, is there room for a pun-fest instead?

I take it he's got lovely feet.

I heard he's great, spread thickly on hot buttered toast.

[MacGruber]

We're desperately in need of a creative midfielder and another pacy winger if Youhan is going.

Cameron and Mulligan from Dundee - jobs a good un.

Get on pre-contracts then use some of the McCowan Million to tempt Dundee to sell now.

Would be outstanding business

[andrew70]

how long left on his contract?

6 months I think.

[Donegal Hibby]

Cameron and Mulligan from Dundee - jobs a good un.

Get on pre-contracts then use some of the McCowan Million to tempt Dundee to sell now.

Would be outstanding business

Does Mulligan not play on Boyles side rather than on the left where Youan plays ? Good player though.

[Bridge hibs]

Does Mulligan not play on Boyles side rather than on the left where Youan plays ? Good player though.

We could just swap his feet over, job done

[Donegal Hibby]

We could just swap his feet over, job done

Then he’d have two left feet 🫣

[tonyrougier123]

Raid Notts county for jatta,Crowley and Jodi jones that’ll boost our forward options. Big striker creative mid and a winger to replace youan if he’s away job done.

[hibsbollah]

Then he’d have two left feet 🫣

Too many lefties as it is :grr:

[Bridge hibs]

Then he’d have two left feet 🫣

Bonus 🤭

[TrinityHFC]

Is that not exactly the same as the summer window according to folk on here?

Pay the premium, get the player.

Prevents another Luke McCowan situation.

You are kidding yourself if you think the McCowan transfer could have been successfully done any earlier.

[Ardenttwo]

Then he’d have two left feet 🫣


Just had a conversation with two sheep fans and both have the same opinion that Roos was the worst goalkeeper they have ever had at Pittodrie.

[CropleyWasGod]

Too many lefties as it is :grr:

According to Paul McCartney, he's done in. He tells me Mulligan's tired.

[tonyrougier123]

According to Paul McCartney, he's done in. He tells me Mulligan's tired.

😂😂😂 class!

[Jones28]

According to Paul McCartney, he's done in. He tells me Mulligan's tired.

:top marks

[hibsbollah]

According to Paul McCartney, he's done in. He tells me Mulligan's tired.

:faf: took me long enough! Excellent

[Bridge hibs]

Just had a conversation with two sheep fans and both have the same opinion that Roos was the worst goalkeeper they have ever had at Pittodrie.They need to take the wool out of their eyes, have they forgotten about Jamie “Clangers” Langfield ?

[Alex Trager]

You are kidding yourself if you think the McCowan transfer could have been successfully done any earlier.

If you are going to go to £1M put your nuts on the table with the £1M.

If they reject then fine, we have went as high as we can. Move on.

It may not have been successful in that we would have got the player, but we could have got another player if we hadn't fannied about.

'That's not how transfers work' - Plenty teams get business done early.

Select players, decide their value, offer the value, sign players, win games.

[Centre Hawf]

If you are going to go to £1M put your nuts on the table with the £1M.

If they reject then fine, we have went as high as we can. Move on.

It may not have been successful in that we would have got the player, but we could have got another player if we hadn't fannied about.

'That's not how transfers work' - Plenty teams get business done early.

Select players, decide their value, offer the value, sign players, win games.

Maybe we were trying to get other players as well which is why we kept upping our offer as we struggled to find alternatives as our desperation got higher?

For what it's worth I think even if it was accepted early I don't think McCowan would have came as I genuinely believe he was told by Celtic that it might happen at the last minute and he would have always waited. We were just a back up option.

[Wilson]

If you are going to go to £1M put your nuts on the table with the £1M.

If they reject then fine, we have went as high as we can. Move on.

It may not have been successful in that we would have got the player, but we could have got another player if we hadn't fannied about.

'That's not how transfers work' - Plenty teams get business done early.

Select players, decide their value, offer the value, sign players, win games.

I think we decided a value lower than that. I think we went to 1m to try and force through a deal knowing other clubs were sniffing around. We really wanted THIS player. We didn't really want to be throwing 1m at n e player.

If Celtic weren't in I don't think they get 1m. That is probably why we don't just throw 1m at them right off the bat. I mean, you follow hibs, right? We don’t just check millions about every transfer window.

[Hibernian Verse]

I think we decided a value lower than that. I think we went to 1m to try and force through a deal knowing other clubs were sniffing around. We really wanted THIS player. We didn't really want to be throwing 1m at n e player.

If Celtic weren't in I don't think they get 1m. That is probably why we don't just throw 1m at them right off the bat. I mean, you follow hibs, right? We don’t just check millions about every transfer window.

Can you imagine if Hibs.net did the player negotations :greengrin

[Jones28]

Maybe we were trying to get other players as well which is why we kept upping our offer as we struggled to find alternatives as our desperation got higher?

For what it's worth I think even if it was accepted early I don't think McCowan would have came as I genuinely believe he was told by Celtic that it might happen at the last minute and he would have always waited. We were just a back up option.

I think this is right, Celtic came in with, what, 24 hours of the window left?

Our will to spend £800k plus only helped push that value. If we hadn't been in for him Celtic would have picked him up for £750k or so.

He's showing now that he'd have been worth the money IMO.

I don't think Hibs did anything wrong with the negotiation, I remember watching Sunderland Till I Die and the owner spending stupid money on Will Grigg despite the manager (Jack Ross at the time) saying he wasn't at all worth that.

[hibeerealist]

You are kidding yourself if you think the McCowan transfer could have been successfully done any earlier.


That should have been confirmed by an offer with a time expiry (ie 72 hours) BEFORE Celtic got their ducks all in a row. No deal, once 72 hours expired, then move on NOT WAIT UNTIL THE END OF THE WINDOW!!!!

[Lago]

That should have been confirmed by an offer with a time expiry (ie 72 hours) BEFORE Celtic got their ducks all in a row. No deal, once 72 hours expired, then move on NOT WAIT UNTIL THE END OF THE WINDOW!!!!
It was a bit amateur night at the Pallidium, not a good look.

[Donegal Hibby]

According to Paul McCartney, he's done in. He tells me Mulligan's tired.

😂😂 😂👏

[Springbank]

Are there not clubs higher up the food chain than us who will have their equivalent of Kenneh and JDH and who will be keen to offload, therefore fairly easy to do business with?

I guess Celtic & Kwon

[Centre Hawf]

That should have been confirmed by an offer with a time expiry (ie 72 hours) BEFORE Celtic got their ducks all in a row. No deal, once 72 hours expired, then move on NOT WAIT UNTIL THE END OF THE WINDOW!!!!

If we did that we would never sign a good player ever again.

[PHeffernan]

I think this is right, Celtic came in with, what, 24 hours of the window left?

Our will to spend £800k plus only helped push that value. If we hadn't been in for him Celtic would have picked him up for £750k or so.

He's showing now that he'd have been worth the money IMO.

I don't think Hibs did anything wrong with the negotiation, I remember watching Sunderland Till I Die and the owner spending stupid money on Will Grigg despite the manager (Jack Ross at the time) saying he wasn't at all worth that.

McCowan is 27 and has started 6 league games for the smellies.
Has played the minute equivalent of 10 league games too date.
He's a decent squad rotation option for them.
Good on the guy getting his payday after years of hard work.

We could do with the 22 year old version, Cameron who, isn't of use to Rantic yet.
It would be great to get him on a pre contract ahead of Aberdeen, Hearts and some English player flippers.
Will probably still cost half a million quid in training compensation when he is out of contract in the summer.

[Viva_Palmeiras]

If you are going to go to £1M put your nuts on the table with the £1M.

If they reject then fine, we have went as high as we can. Move on.

It may not have been successful in that we would have got the player, but we could have got another player if we hadn't fannied about.

'That's not how transfers work' - Plenty teams get business done early.

Select players, decide their value, offer the value, sign players, win games.

McCowan was always gonna hang on til Celtic had given him an answer which if reports at the time are correct they were waiting on an answer on some (Eastern?) European midfielder who went elsewhere which led to the chain of events unfolding meaning we lost out.

So Who is this mythical Scottish Leagues experienced £1m alternative that had the (unique) attributes McCowan has?

if they answer is there is none I understand in a sense why the club keeping their powder dry.

[CapitalGreen]

McCowan was always gonna hang on til Celtic had given him an answer which if reports at the time are correct they were waiting on an answer on some (Eastern?) European midfielder who went elsewhere which led to the chain of events unfolding meaning we lost out.

So Who is this mythical Scottish Leagues experienced £1m alternative that had the (unique) attributes McCowan has?

if they answer is there is none I understand in a sense why the club keeping their powder dry.

It was Andy Irving they were trying to sign but West Ham rejected their approach and they moved onto McCowan. They needed to sign a Scottish Player to meet the home grown quota for their European squad. Had Celtic succeeded in bringing in Andy Irving, McCown would have been at Easter Road.

[Donegal Hibby]

Maybe we were trying to get other players as well which is why we kept upping our offer as we struggled to find alternatives as our desperation got higher?

For what it's worth I think even if it was accepted early I don't think McCowan would have came as I genuinely believe he was told by Celtic that it might happen at the last minute and he would have always waited. We were just a back up option.

I think we just took a chance in trying to sign a really top quality midfielder that ticked so many boxes for us . I don’t think we were going to just go out and spend that sort of money on a “ plan B “ , backup option , or foreign player that might not adjust to our game as we have seen recently.

For what its worth you could very well be right in he was told Celtic might come in at the last minute as he definitely had his heart set on joining them being a Celtic fan though I do think the club should be applauded for trying and showing such ambitions with the amount of money that was getting mentioned we were willing to spend on him .

[Centre Hawf]

McCowan was always gonna hang on til Celtic had given him an answer which if reports at the time are correct they were waiting on an answer on some (Eastern?) European midfielder who went elsewhere which led to the chain of events unfolding meaning we lost out.

So Who is this mythical Scottish Leagues experienced £1m alternative that had the (unique) attributes McCowan has?

if they answer is there is none I understand in a sense why the club keeping their powder dry.

I believe they wanted Andy Irving on loan from West Ham and when it didn't happen they turned their focus to him as he was also a homegrown player.

[PHeffernan]

Todays Scottish Premiership signing is:

21 year old centre half Aaron Donnelly has put pen to paper on a three-and-a-half-year deal at Dundee.

He was on loan at Dens Park from Nottingham Forest last season and would have been out of contract at the end of this season.
He was on loan at 2nd Division Colchester United until Dundee decided they wanted to sign him on a permanent.

Who will be tomorrows SPL signing!
Log into .net at the same time on Thursday to find out and avoid pages and pages of drivel about Kieran Tierney.

[04Sauzee]

Sheffield Wednesday and Queens Park Rangers have submitted offers for teen sensation Thomas Waddingham from Brisbane Roar. #swfc #QPR #BrisbaneRoar

https://x.com/SportsPeteO/status/1877052804121940028?t=v0dmiAYAEnWTMLfSj1Gc_w&s=19

[bingo70]

Todays Scottish Premiership signing is:

21 year old centre half Aaron Donnelly has put pen to paper on a three-and-a-half-year deal at Dundee.

He was on loan at Dens Park from Nottingham Forest last season and would have been out of contract at the end of this season.
He was on loan at 2nd Division Colchester United until Dundee decided they wanted to sign him on a permanent.

Who will be tomorrows SPL signing!
Log into .net at the same time on Thursday to find out and avoid pages and pages of drivel about Kieran Tierney.

https://x.com/kbathat34609/status/1877037228653744167?s=46&t=VghJuoU_bl8ISs-zf5CmHg

Todays made up rumour is Moldovan forward Ion Nicolaescu who is out of favour at Heerenveen. Seems to be talk on Twitter of him going to Brazil or back to Israel but then there’s one random fan asking if he’s going to Hibernian which seems a bit strange.

Hopefully sign someone soon so my desperation for a good rumour can ease off.

[Spudster]

Cameron and Mulligan from Dundee - jobs a good un.

Get on pre-contracts then use some of the McCowan Million to tempt Dundee to sell now.

Would be outstanding business

Looks like both are headed to the huns.

[JohnM1875]

Looks like both are headed to the huns.

Aye, Cameron to the Huns has been doing the rounds for months now. Good player.

[04Sauzee]

https://x.com/kbathat34609/status/1877037228653744167?s=46&t=VghJuoU_bl8ISs-zf5CmHg

Todays made up rumour is Moldovan forward Ion Nicolaescu who is out of favour at Heerenveen. Seems to be talk on Twitter of him going to Brazil or back to Israel but then there’s one random fan asking if he’s going to Hibernian which seems a bit strange.

Hopefully sign someone soon so my desperation for a good rumour can ease off.

Very random Indeed, scored a few goals in a very decent league, also top scorer for his country. I think his club side paid something like £1.2m for him and don't think his value has dropped.

[NC1875]

Looks like both are headed to the huns.

Doubt it, they’ve not got a pot to piss in.

Mind you, it’s never stopped them before. Like there wee cousins in Gorgie!

[007]

I think we just took a chance in trying to sign a really top quality midfielder that ticked so many boxes for us . I don’t think we were going to just go out and spend that sort of money on a “ plan B “ , backup option , or foreign player that might not adjust to our game as we have seen recently.

For what its worth you could very well be right in he was told Celtic might come in at the last minute as he definitely had his heart set on joining them being a Celtic fan though I do think the club should be applauded for trying and showing such ambitions with the amount of money that was getting mentioned we were willing to spend on him .

There are posters that refuse to accept the clubs' version of events because of their dislike of Ian Gordon / Malky Mackay / Ben Kensell and instead latch onto it and push the "no plan B" angle because that fits their agenda better.

Brian McLaughlin spoke about it on Sportsound and said that at a very late stage on transfer deadline day a deal with Celtic wasn't happening. He didn't say that McCowan was therefore definitely about to sign for us but it was in the context of Hibs making bids and it sounded like it could well have happened but a Celtic offer did come in, pretty much last minute, but it had by no means been guaranteed that it would come in at all. That seems to tie-in with CapitalGreen's post above yours about Andy Irving.

[04Sauzee]

I can't see the Huns being impressed with this kind of signing.

EXCLUSIVE! Richard King on Rangers transfer radar as move for giant Jamaican pondered amid central defensive crisis

dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football

[King Cosell]

Australian striker at Motherwell not in the squad tonight. On the move?

[Cat Stanton]

According to Paul McCartney, he's done in. He tells me Mulligan's tired.

No offence, but that is absolutely terrible!

[Joe6-2]

I can't see the Huns being impressed with this kind of signing.

EXCLUSIVE! Richard King on Rangers transfer radar as move for giant Jamaican pondered amid central defensive crisis

dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football

Somebody dick-king around 😂

[04Sauzee]

Australian striker at Motherwell not in the squad tonight. On the move?

Were you struggling with Apostolos Stamatelopoulos 😅

Looks like he hasn't been in the team since 29th December, suspended, injured maybe?

[Heisenberg]

Australian striker at Motherwell not in the squad tonight. On the move?

Seems he only played a half against the Huns so guessing he went off injured. Hasn’t been in a squad since

[superfurryhibby]

Hibs looking for any left wingers? Plenty on here.🤭
In all seriousness quite depressing coming on here to read stories about Hibs/transfers and folk deciding it’s better to push political views and social media reviews whilst calling fellow posters “lunatics”

Stay away from social media if you can’t handle opposing views on the mentioned platforms.

We gather together on here in unity all things Hibernian surely?………..well saying that 🤔😂

The lunatics was referring to material emanating from the likes of Tramp, Musk that people post for discussion on the Holy Ground. If you pay a PM sub you'll be able to find out for yourself.

It's an excellent source of news, critique of current affairs and general nonsense. It's a good forum, though it's fair to say corporate and any other type of right wing extremism/fascist/Tommy Robinson worshipping lunacy tends to get dismantled pretty quickly. There's interesting threads on Trump, Ukraine and much much more.

Back to transfers, I would love to see some quality additions made in lieu of the summer window. Hibs should be bold, spend some cash on the likes of a Lyall Cameron and re-vitalise a difficult area of the team.

We have players returning from injury, Ekpiteta, Newell, Bowie Myko, Rudi. A small number of quality additions would do me.

[007]

Sunderland are in talks with Roma re a potential move for midfielder Enzo Le Fee. Would guess that'd increase the chances of them letting Triantis go, if we were interested.

[CapitalGreen]

https://x.com/kbathat34609/status/1877037228653744167?s=46&t=VghJuoU_bl8ISs-zf5CmHg

Todays made up rumour is Moldovan forward Ion Nicolaescu who is out of favour at Heerenveen. Seems to be talk on Twitter of him going to Brazil or back to Israel but then there’s one random fan asking if he’s going to Hibernian which seems a bit strange.

Hopefully sign someone soon so my desperation for a good rumour can ease off.

My guess would be that the random tweeter has confused Heerenveen with Hibernian.

[bingo70]

My guess would be that the random tweeter has confused Heerenveen with Hibernian.

Well that’s no much fun.

Cheers though 😃

[007]

Sunderland are in talks with Roma re a potential move for midfielder Enzo Le Fee. Would guess that'd increase the chances of them letting Triantis go, if we were interested.

Just seen the deal has been done, not sure if it affects Triantis's situation. Le Fee maybe more of an attacking midfielder / all rounder. Plus I suppose it may also depend on if Sunderland see Triantis more a midfielder than a defender, or not.

https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1877069789828415764

[Iain G]

Just seen the deal has been done, not sure if it affects Triantis's situation. Le Fee maybe more of an attacking midfielder / all rounder. Plus I suppose it may also depend on if Sunderland see Triantis more a midfielder than a defender, or not.

https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1877069789828415764

How much did they sign him for, quel est le fee?

[Forza Fred]

Sheffield Wednesday and Queens Park Rangers have submitted offers for teen sensation Thomas Waddingham from Brisbane Roar. #swfc #QPR #BrisbaneRoar

https://x.com/SportsPeteO/status/1877052804121940028?t=v0dmiAYAEnWTMLfSj1Gc_w&s=19

Dunno if I’d describe him as a ‘teen sensation’ tbh.

He’s tall, and while relatively inexperienced scores a few goals yes, but never seen anything ‘sensational’ about him.

[007]

How much did they sign him for, quel est le fee?


No fee quoted, it's a loan with buy clause. Aucun montant n'a été mentionné, c'est un prêt avec option d'achat. 😀

[hibsbollah]

Sunderland are in talks with Roma re a potential move for midfielder Enzo Le Fee. Would guess that'd increase the chances of them letting Triantis go, if we were interested.

Thats interesting. He was one of Lorients star players, sold to Italy for €25 million when BK came in, one of the reasons their fans were raging, was like a fire sale of their 3 key players, i looked into it. Looks like hes now got a sideways move to England.

[CentreLine]

There are posters that refuse to accept the clubs' version of events because of their dislike of Ian Gordon / Malky Mackay / Ben Kensell and instead latch onto it and push the "no plan B" angle because that fits their agenda better.

Brian McLaughlin spoke about it on Sportsound and said that at a very late stage on transfer deadline day a deal with Celtic wasn't happening. He didn't say that McCowan was therefore definitely about to sign for us but it was in the context of Hibs making bids and it sounded like it could well have happened but a Celtic offer did come in, pretty much last minute, but it had by no means been guaranteed that it would come in at all. That seems to tie-in with CapitalGreen's post above yours about Andy Irving.

I understand that is exactly what happened. Celtic pulled out late evening. They came back in Very late and final deal was not signed off until almost 11pm. Although Hibs’ last offer had been rejected by then the club was in the mix until those closing minutes.

[007]

I understand that is exactly what happened. Celtic pulled out late evening. They came back in Very late and final deal was not signed off until almost 11pm. Although Hibs’ last offer had been rejected by then the club was in the mix until those closing minutes.

👍


Bournemouth recall forward Daniel Jebbison from his loan at Watford. Wonder what their plans are for him.

[Smartie]

I understand that is exactly what happened. Celtic pulled out late evening. They came back in Very late and final deal was not signed off until almost 11pm. Although Hibs’ last offer had been rejected by then the club was in the mix until those closing minutes.

I know they’ve not had much credit in the bank to enjoy much benefit of the doubt, but I genuinely felt that Hibs did absolutely the best they could through that saga and I don’t believe they are deserving of any criticism for anything they did.

I also spoke to someone at Hibs around the time we signed John McGinn. McGinn was an opportunistic outside of normal budget signing that we made because we decided he was too good to miss out on - a decision that nobody could ever argue wasn’t the right one. Just because Hibs didn’t source an alternative for McCowan didn’t mean we had a million quid burning a hole in our pocket desperate to be spent. I accept and appreciate their reasoning there and hope that if we show a bit of restraint and patience then if a similar opportunity presents in future then we might be able to capitalise next time.

[Gmack7]

👍


Bournemouth recall forward Daniel Jebbison from his loan at Watford. Wonder what their plans are for him.

Probably play him, they have a couple of strikers out injured

[04Sauzee]

👍


Bournemouth recall forward Daniel Jebbison from his loan at Watford. Wonder what their plans are for him.
Think he has having a nightmare at Watford and Bournemouth may require him just now as they have just lost two Strikers to injury.

[Donegal Hibby]

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Bournemouth recall forward Daniel Jebbison from his loan at Watford. Wonder what their plans are for him.

Seen that he really p***** off the Watford fans on social media after they lost to Sheffield Utd .

https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/football/sheffield-united/under-fire-watford-mans-loan-cut-short-after-sheffield-united-message-sparked-fan-fury-4935563

[Paulie Walnuts]

👍


Bournemouth recall forward Daniel Jebbison from his loan at Watford. Wonder what their plans are for him.

He’ll have to stay at Bournemouth now. Played for two clubs already this season.

[Silky]

He’ll have to stay at Bournemouth now. Played for two clubs already this season.

That might not be a bad thing. Whenever I've seen him he looks humpty!

[04Sauzee]

Aberdeen have gifted new signing Kristers Tobers a block of granite.

The Dons, who hail from the Granite City, are trying to make "new signings feel at home in Aberdeen with gifts that represent our city".

#AberdeenFC

https://i.ibb.co/gJ8c5Kj/20250108-214829.png (https://ibb.co/XtPGhR2)

[1875godsgift]

Aberdeen have gifted new signing Kristers Tobers a block of granite.

The Dons, who hail from the Granite City, are trying to make "new signings feel at home in Aberdeen with gifts that represent our city".

#AberdeenFC

https://i.ibb.co/gJ8c5Kj/20250108-214829.png (https://ibb.co/XtPGhR2)

Tight ****ers

[1875Sean]

Doubt it, they’ve not got a pot to piss in.

Mind you, it’s never stopped them before. Like there wee cousins in Gorgie!

Think they are linked as a free in the summer, will just need to a pay a tribunal fee like Barron

[hibsbollah]

Aberdeen have gifted new signing Kristers Tobers a block of granite.

The Dons, who hail from the Granite City, are trying to make "new signings feel at home in Aberdeen with gifts that represent our city".

#AberdeenFC

https://i.ibb.co/gJ8c5Kj/20250108-214829.png (https://ibb.co/XtPGhR2)

Sveiki mama! Just a quick text before i hit the hay. The new team in Scotland seem to be paying me in ornamental bricks, i need to get the agent on the phone asap’.

[Alex Trager]

Aberdeen have gifted new signing Kristers Tobers a block of granite.

The Dons, who hail from the Granite City, are trying to make "new signings feel at home in Aberdeen with gifts that represent our city".

#AberdeenFC

https://i.ibb.co/gJ8c5Kj/20250108-214829.png (https://ibb.co/XtPGhR2)
Seems a good signing.

Chase your targets. Pay the going amount. Get them in early.

Sort it hibs.

[PHeffernan]

https://x.com/kbathat34609/status/1877037228653744167?s=46&t=VghJuoU_bl8ISs-zf5CmHg

Todays made up rumour is Moldovan forward Ion Nicolaescu who is out of favour at Heerenveen. Seems to be talk on Twitter of him going to Brazil or back to Israel but then there’s one random fan asking if he’s going to Hibernian which seems a bit strange.

Hopefully sign someone soon so my desperation for a good rumour can ease off.

As far as i know Nicolaescu gets a game every week. Not always a starter but he plays a decent amount of minutes.
Coincidentally, Vente's team PEC Zwolle are only 2 places behind Heerenveen in the Eredivisie.
Vente has played far more minutes than Nicolaescu so probably better bringing him back instead of fishing for the Moldovan.
Dylan is playing 90 minute most weeks for PEC Zwolle and you no doubt remember some of our supporters concern that he appeared to run out of petrol after an hour.
On the downside, PEC Zwolle are fourth lowest scorers in the league and our man is their centre forward.

[TrinityHFC]

Seems a good signing.

Chase your targets. Pay the going amount. Get them in early.

Sort it hibs.

Maybe add this to the Aberdeen thread and see how it goes longer term? Might be a good signing, might not, but have we not learned about whether we should really be taking lessons from what other teams do?

[Bridge hibs]

Aberdeen have gifted new signing Kristers Tobers a block of granite.

The Dons, who hail from the Granite City, are trying to make "new signings feel at home in Aberdeen with gifts that represent our city".

#AberdeenFC

https://i.ibb.co/gJ8c5Kj/20250108-214829.png (https://ibb.co/XtPGhR2)Granite ? ****ing hell, there will be nowt left o auld Aggies kitchen worktop if they keep up with those signings 🫣

Tight fisted *******s

[PatHead]

Granite ? ****ing hell, there will be nowt left o auld Aggies kitchen worktop if they keep up with those signings 🫣

Tight fisted *******s

I thought it was a bit of kerbstone

[Donegal Hibby]

https://youtu.be/R1ZU6UMDfgY?si=8OKGQKy6Oo35jhlN

[Paulie Walnuts]

Seems a good signing.

Chase your targets. Pay the going amount. Get them in early.

Sort it hibs.

On paper he looks a very good signing. Proof will be in the pudding, but I’d have been quite excited to see him sign for Hibs. Great age, loads of experience and captain of his national team with masses of caps.

[PHeffernan]

My guess would be that the random tweeter has confused Heerenveen with Hibernian.

That's a good call

[PHeffernan]

👍


Bournemouth recall forward Daniel Jebbison from his loan at Watford. Wonder what their plans are for him.

Make him into a hat stand

[HoboHarry]

That was good of Aberdeen, they gave him part of his brain back after the frontal lobotomy required prior to signing for Aberdeen.

[PHeffernan]

Looks like both are headed to the huns.

Neither are good enough, especially Mulligan

but would be a cheeky wee addition at Hibs

[PHeffernan]

Seems a good signing.

Chase your targets. Pay the going amount. Get them in early.

Sort it hibs.

Yeah, looks a good signing. Could well be the best window signing outside of Celgers.
He appears to have been injured and has only played 2 league games in the last 3 month so he won't be tired.
Remember Aberdeen have a massive chunk of money from the Miovski sale, a big chunk of money for playing Europeam group football last season plus a cheeky wee 640k from Rangers last week for Barron and they have decided not to replace their stadium so are awash with funds.
Hibs not so much.

[Fifeshirehibs]

Granite ? ****ing hell, there will be nowt left o auld Aggies kitchen worktop if they keep up with those signings 🫣

Tight fisted *******s Wow welcome to Aberdeen, A Mutton coloured lump o granite that fell aff one of the dilapidated stands.

[JohnM1875]

Honestly thought we would’ve had a signing in to improve us before the ‘well game (appreciate we still could, just highly doubt it)

Aye, we left it late last window and got Maolida, but if anything, leaving it that late probably cost us just missing out on the top six. Something that could easily happen again this year, we’re still bottom six.

[flash]

Honestly thought we would’ve had a signing in to improve us before the ‘well game (appreciate we still could, just highly doubt it)

Aye, we left it late last window and got Maolida, but if anything, leaving it that late probably cost us just missing out on the top six. Something that could easily happen again this year, we’re still bottom six.

We are also on a good unbeaten run so any new signing probably wouldn't get straight into the team anyway.

[badabing67]

Sunderland are in talks with Roma re a potential move for midfielder Enzo Le Fee. Would guess that'd increase the chances of them letting Triantis go, if we were interested.


I think promotion might increase the chances as well