Summer transfer thread 2025

[B.H.F.C]

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I’d be trying for Mark O’Hara as a replacement for Triantis

Not for me. Think he’d probably be pretty solid but a step down on Triantis and what he does for us. St Mirren midfield are about battling and scrapping and watching the ball go over their heads for 90 minutes. We need someone similar to Triantis, if we can’t keep him.

[badabing67]

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I’d be trying for Mark O’Hara as a replacement for Triantis

No thanks

[CapitalGreen]

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Take it for whats it worth but ive heard from someone connected to the club that the deal for triantis has been agreed between Sunderland and Hibs (unsure of figures etc and they aren't privvy to that) however player themselves preferred option would be to stay at Sunderland and try force his way into the 1st team and wants to do some pre season training to see how likely this is.

If true I think hes likely to be very disappointed

I imagine he’ll find out how interested they are in him forcing his way into the first team when he returns for preseason on Friday. If the club has agreed to sell him he won’t be in his managers thinking.

[Centre Hawf]

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I’d be trying for Mark O’Hara as a replacement for Triantis

A year or two ago I'd have spent the money on him, but at 30 years old his winter I'm not sure i'd be looking to put a decent chunk of money down.

[One Day Soon]

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Take it for whats it worth but ive heard from someone connected to the club that the deal for triantis has been agreed between Sunderland and Hibs (unsure of figures etc and they aren't privvy to that) however player themselves preferred option would be to stay at Sunderland and try force his way into the 1st team and wants to do some pre season training to see how likely this is.

If true I think hes likely to be very disappointed

I think that would be very bad news for him and much, much worse news for us. He's an absolute stand out up here but he's an unlikely to get games in the English top league.

We'll struggle to easily replace him to the same standard and whoever we did go after isn't going to quickly slot in to the team in the way that he clearly does having played in such a successful side last season.

Fantastic though it is that we've signed and re-signed well to this point, we still need two forwards to stand still in that department and Triantis or very similar to maintain the quality in midfield.

[Donegal Hibby]

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I’d be trying for Mark O’Hara as a replacement for Triantis

Going by his highlights Balla Moussa Conte looks an interesting prospect…

https://youtu.be/vwC32iRF3yI?si=Ihf9M1J33tQnMS-M

[JohnM1875]

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I think that would be very bad news for him and much, much worse news for us. He's an absolute stand out up here but he's an unlikely to get games in the English top league.

We'll struggle to easily replace him to the same standard and whoever we did go after isn't going to quickly slot in to the team in the way that he clearly does having played in such a successful side last season.

Fantastic though it is that we've signed and re-signed well to this point, we still need two forwards to stand still in that department and Triantis or very similar to maintain the quality in midfield.

A few windows ago I would've agreed that we’ll struggle to replace Nectar, not so now and if he doesn't want to come back I’m actually excited to see who else we’ll bring in.

[Scooter]

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Going by his highlights Balla Moussa Conte looks an interesting prospect…

https://youtu.be/vwC32iRF3yI?si=Ihf9M1J33tQnMS-M

I got about a minute 30 in and thought the majority of thoes tackles will be punished the the SPL

[easty]

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I think that would be very bad news for him and much, much worse news for us. He's an absolute stand out up here but he's an unlikely to get games in the English top league.

Sunderland have just spent £50m bringing in 2 centre mids (Le Fee and Diarra). They've already got Dan Neil who's their captain in there too, and Chris Rigg the 18 year old who's apparently the next big thing.

Triantis should be moving on, even if that's not here, there's nae point in him staying there.

[shamo9]

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Take it for whats it worth but ive heard from someone connected to the club that the deal for triantis has been agreed between Sunderland and Hibs (unsure of figures etc and they aren't privvy to that) however player themselves preferred option would be to stay at Sunderland and try force his way into the 1st team and wants to do some pre season training to see how likely this is.

If true I think hes likely to be very disappointed

Probably but I don't think he can be blamed for at least wanting to test the waters. Every football players wants to play at the highest level and a necessity for reaching the top is believing in yourself.


I think if he's struggling to even make the bench during pre-season the lure of going to Hibs and being the main man will become stronger.

[WestStandWillie]

I know the European game is a few weeks away but is there a specific deadline for registering players?

[Donegal Hibby]

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I got about a minute 30 in and thought the majority of thoes tackles will be punished the the SPL

Actually thought most of his tackles he clearly wins the ball tbf .

[jeffers]

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Probably but I don't think he can be blamed for at least wanting to test the waters. Every football players wants to play at the highest level and a necessity for reaching the top is believing in yourself.


I think if he's struggling to even make the bench during pre-season the lure of going to Hibs and being the main man will become stronger.

You’d figure if Sunderland had plans for him they wouldn’t have told us how much they want to sell him to us….

[Donegal Hibby]

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Sunderland have just spent £50m bringing in 2 centre mids (Le Fee and Diarra). They've already got Dan Neil who's their captain in there too, and Chris Rigg the 18 year old who's apparently the next big thing.

Triantis should be moving on, even if that's not here, there's nae point in him staying there.

I know reports are saying different but I think he will know himself he’s not going to get regular game time there and its more a case of the agent/ player waiting to see if there’s other options that come in for him while they consider what’s already on offer .

[Cabbage-Patch]

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Going by his highlights Balla Moussa Conte looks an interesting prospect…

https://youtu.be/vwC32iRF3yI?si=Ihf9M1J33tQnMS-M

Are we linked with this guy? Agree with the poster who said majority of those tackles would likely be classed as fouls in the SPL. Guaranteed at Ibrox and Celtic Park

[GloryGlory]

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I know reports are saying different but I think he will know himself he’s not going to get regular game time there and its more a case of the agent/ player waiting to see if there’s other options that come in for him while they consider what’s already on offer .

You'd hope that when he gets back to pre-season he knocks on the manager's door for a quick chat to find out where he stands and the manager gives him an honest assessment.

[jacomo]

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I maintain that he represents a fantastic, cheap option to provide a great shift for Sunderland in midfield the year after next, when they're trying to get promoted out of the Championship again.

A loan to us surely makes most sense to all parties - we'd like to get a great player for another year, he wants to play every week in the run up to the World Cup and Sunderland get a fairly polished player back when they're more likely to need to use him than now.

Of course we want to have him permanently but I don't get why Sunderland would want to accept relative buttons for him? I say relative buttons, we'd be smashing records to sign him but they're currently buying and selling in the £30m+ player range so anything we pay would be relative buttons.

Any party gets greedy, they risk missing out on the goodness that is already great for all 3 parties.

Every club wants a cohesive and together dressing room, with a tight knit first team squad and every young player pushing for consideration.

Sunderland have made it clear Triantis isn't in their plans. He needs to play regularly. Why retain his contract and loan him out again?

[GloryGlory]

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Every club wants a cohesive and together dressing room, with a tight knit first team squad and every young player pushing for consideration.

Sunderland have made it clear Triantis isn't in their plans. He needs to play regularly. Why retain his contract and loan him out again?

If he goes to the English Championship, say, and performs maybe they're calculating that they'll get a lot more dosh for him next year?

[CentreForward]

Can’t exactly blame him for doing it, either by seeing if he still has any chance at Sunderland or if other offers come in from elsewhere. Only problem with that is that if he does end up coming back to us will we suddenly seem like a 3rd or 4th choice to him and we suddenly end up with a bit of an unhappy player. Hope not.

[JohnM1875]

“We are Scottish football” account on Twitter, which I'm sure is a daft wee laddie, reporting Blackburn Rovers have had a bid of £1 mil accepted for Triantis.

[MacGruber]

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I know the European game is a few weeks away but is there a specific deadline for registering players?

Not far away now at all and whilst Triantis coming back would be huge and whilst we are overall in a very good place - we are a bit short up front. Myko, Gayle and Hoilett were involved in virtually every game in some capacity.

Just Boyle and Bowie at the minute. Bowie hasn't really shown to be a consistent 90 min player either. Youan be useful but no telling where he is physically and mentally.

Could do with reinforcements up top. Relying on Bowie for physicality and if they both start, Boyle and Bowie v the Danes there isn't going to be much on the bench as it stands - though I'm sure we'll get somebody in before then

[Lago]

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Take it for whats it worth but ive heard from someone connected to the club that the deal for triantis has been agreed between Sunderland and Hibs (unsure of figures etc and they aren't privvy to that) however player themselves preferred option would be to stay at Sunderland and try force his way into the 1st team and wants to do some pre season training to see how likely this is.

If true I think hes likely to be very disappointed

I've come to the point where I think it's unlikely either Triantis or Hoilett will be back but every day hope to be proved wrong.

[Stuart93]

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“We are Scottish football” account on Twitter, which I'm sure is a daft wee laddie, reporting Blackburn Rovers have had a bid of £1 mil accepted for Triantis.

He also said triantis move coming in a few days after Mulligan signed…ignore.

[Jones28]

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Going by his highlights Balla Moussa Conte looks an interesting prospect…

https://youtu.be/vwC32iRF3yI?si=Ihf9M1J33tQnMS-M

Well I’m sold. Looks a class act.

[number9dream]

Are our Bournemouth overlords sending another player to Rangers? Hopefully this is a clever sabotage ruse...

https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/sport/25279690.rangers-talks-bournemouth-joe-rothwell-deal/

[Donegal Hibby]

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Are we linked with this guy? Agree with the poster who said majority of those tackles would likely be classed as fouls in the SPL. Guaranteed at Ibrox and Celtic Park

I think there was something mentioned about him earlier, might not be anything in it of course though I suppose the point I’m making is there will be a fair few folk disappointed ( myself included) if we don’t get Triantis but there are a lot of other good players out there and I would have a lot of faith in our recruitment now to identify another good one.

Surprised you and the other poster think a lot of the tackles are fouls tbh as I think in most he clearly wins the ball .. opinions eh? 😀

[Smartie]

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I think there was something mentioned about him earlier, might not be anything in it of course though I suppose the point I’m making is there will be a fair few folk disappointed ( myself included) if we don’t get Triantis but there are a lot of other good players out there and I would have a lot of faith in our recruitment now to identify another good one.

Surprised you and the other poster think a lot of the tackles are fouls tbh as I think in most he clearly wins the ball .. opinions eh? ��

"Winning the ball" hasn't really been a thing for a while though.

I took a bit of time to adapt to the new rules. Previously, a whacking tackle could be fine as long as the ball was won, but now you have to take into consideration excessive force and endangering opponents. The winning of the ball is fairly immaterial.

That's before you get onto the interpretation of said rules by Scottish referees.

The tackles in the clip were great Scottish tackles, maybe up to about a decade or so ago. Since then, I'm afraid I agree with those who think they're getting penalised here.

[Centre Hawf]

I actually think the guy in the video goes to ground a tad too quickly. I rate that he wins the ball so often but I'm a bit of a believer in that if you have to go to ground it's because it's the last option or something has gone a bit wrong.

[Shrekko]

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"Winning the ball" hasn't really been a thing for a while though.

I've took a bit to adapt to the new rules. Previously, a whacking tackle could be fine as long as the ball was won, but now you have to take into consideration excessive force and endangering opponents. The winning of the ball is fairly immaterial.

That's before you get onto the interpretation of said rules by Scottish referees.

The tackles in the clip were great Scottish tackles, maybe up to about a decade or so ago. Since then, I'm afraid I agree with those who think they're getting penalised here.

Triantis made a strong tackle early in the cup tie v Ayr - he couldn't have won the ball more cleanly but Ayr players were wanting him sent off and we all had our hearts in our mouth. Was a booking in the end, but shows how times have changed. Watch games from 10-20 years ago and the difference in what players can do is amazing. No diving defenders either.

[jacomo]

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If he goes to the English Championship, say, and performs maybe they're calculating that they'll get a lot more dosh for him next year?

Of course. We might say a similar thing about, say, Tavares. Loan them out again, hope they discover some form, fingers crossed for profits ahead.

Sometimes, though, it's better to have clarity of thought. Frankly, Sunderland are odds on to get relegated again, they need to focus all their energies on the task ahead.