Pretty much this............... IMHO
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On last night I’d want us to keep Shaw. Heckingbottom works on his confidence he’ll score a fair few IMO.
We'll struggle to find a midfielder as technically gifted as slivka to come and sit on our bench, especially on our budget.
He shouldn't be first choice but is a perfectly fine option off the bench and for back up IMO.
He scored my favourite goal of last season (the one where he started the move in the right back position).
He’s inconsistent (and in and out of the team) but he’s got something. I don’t think we’ve seen the best of Slivka, and not convinced we ever will, but I’d take a chance.
Entitled to your own opinion of course, I know you’re one of his biggest fans on here. What is it you see in him? I see a guy who’s short passing can be very hit and miss, more than the other guys we have had in the middle of the pitch. Someone else said the other day that he has an ability to turn a 70/30 ball in his favour into a 40/60 and I’d agree with that at times, he just seems to lack any real ability to put a stamp on a game on a regular basis, whether that’s through winning tackles, scoring goals or assisting.
He’s by no means a bad player and he’s had some good moments at Hibs but they’ve just been nowhere near frequent enough imo. Danny Swanson was the same and he never got the luxury of 2 full seasons and possibly even a third to try and establish himself in the team. Not many players do.
People will defend Slivka right up until the day Heckingbottom bins him, and then say it’s a good decision, and it’s been clear he wasn’t cutting it.
It was the same with Milligan last season. And Oxley before that.
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Before anyone tells me otherwise, I know full well the work in the background is in full swing on the transfer front. It just feels like it's stopped as so much focus on the takeover and rightly so - the rumour page for signings has dried up a bit.
Not long until competative action and we are sorely missing a couple of box to box midfielder/defensive midfielder and a striker. No doubt Omeonga, Ojo and McNulty are the No. 1 targets but not sure if any will pan out now.
Any other names in the frame?
I thought the Ojo deal was dead?
Would rangers loan us Mcrorie??
Will Rangers not maybe start to do business with us that is in their best interests now that our regime has changed?
The issue with this deal (and anything else between the 2 clubs in recent years) is that we've been close to their level - by loaning us McRorie they might be strengthening a rival.
Slivka is clearly just forgettable. He had a long string of games where the consensus was pretty much that he had been one of our best players, yet one 'meh' game and we revert to whipping out the clichés about him "not grabbing the game by the scruff of the neck" or "putting his stamp on the game".