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Same guy / journo as per post about Triantis
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https://x.com/mccleanduncan1/status/...685798012?s=46
Same guy / journo as per post about Triantis
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I hope Shankland signs a 4 year deal with them. He's always been a talented player but his fitness level has never really been where it should be which is probably why he didn't make it in Belgium. Now that he's heading into his 30s , he's going to find it more and more of a struggle to be fit enough. If he does go to West Brom he'll be back up the road on loan by the January window.
I asked my baggies supporting chum who is reasonably itk.
Seemingly - They were interested up until his agent started hawking him around other clubs off the press coverage sparked up by WBA's interest. Once they got wind of that the Baggies dropped interest and have moved on.
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I tend to second guess Hearts' fortunes by imagining what the next season's worth of nauseating media coverage is going to centre on.
Any sort of Shankland renaissance is going to be lapped up, so would be in equal measures entirely predictable and also boak-inducing.
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If Hibs signed Triantis permanently I think I'd genuinely touch myself in an inappropriate manner and I'm not even being dramatic. Quite the contrast to the rage I felt last year when we signed him.
At the moment, we are Rocky, Triantis, Hoilett, Gayle and Kukharevych down from last season and have brought in Sallinger and McGrath. So we are still well short to get to what we were last season. Plus, Aberdeen and Hearts will be stronger (I know people want to believe otherwise but they will). So we need a much stronger squad than last season to get top 3 and win a cup, which should always be the aim.
So, it's about time we were getting players in. And a good recruitment team would have players identified. No point spending a season qualifying for Europe and then being under prepared for it. Have the majority of the team ready and having had a couple weeks together before the real stuff kicks off. The teams that perform the best always tend to have their major transfers done early.
I do think Aberdeen getting the guaranteed European money has made the level of signings we bring in down a level. Or certainly much more difficult to get them in.
The "journalist" that tweeted about Triantis also has us interested in a couple of players from Hacken, Don't shoot the messenger! :greengrin
https://x.com/MccleanDuncan1/status/1937793339685798012
Shankland prediction
- off course he will sign. He has no other credible options.
- Hearts will pee themselves with the announcement
- Budge will come out of hiding
- BBC Sportsound will have an emergency podcast on it
- BBC Sportsound at the weekend will then install Hearts as certs for 3rd and even a wee challenge to 2nd
- Kenny McIntyre (host) will talk about it being signing of the close season, doesnt McInnes “talk so well” and say Hearts are back
- Hearts fans will Lap it up in close season and replace “analytics” with “disrupt” as new favourite word in every sentence.
Then a few months later…
- the fans will realise McInnes football is dog****
- the recruitment approach they have taken is a disaster and they are languishing mid table
- Meanwhile Shankland will still be at least a stone over weight, even slower and scored less than one of our centre halfs.
Really thought we’d have a striker in by now. We’ve known Gayle was retiring for ages and the chat was we weren't interested in bringing Myko back for a third spell.
I'd rather we took our time to do the right deals for the right players, just look at some of the dreadful signings we've been lumbered with over the last few years.
Quality over quantity takes time...
I get what you're saying and given the current make-up of our squad compared to previous seasons I'm much more chilled than I have been.
But if the quality has been identified in advance there isn't really a reason why it should take longer.
Don't doubt Aberdeen winning the Cup will have changed things though.
Ahem, see Swiss Tony is this season's Dhanda. He's got them disrupting the current domination in Scottish football this time around. Being lapped up as one would expect.
Maybe they are signing last season's bottom 6 captain after all.
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