Spiderpig

New training facilities were mentioned as by all accounts Dalziel park is not fit for purpose, the POD is long overdue an upgrade, and Mrs Baillies needs some cover added. So I dont doubt the board has a long list of things the money could be used for, but I'm sure JBA will see a good percentage of it for player recruitment.

I said earlier on the Miller transfer that i hope the club is not getting greedy, any player is only worth whatever clubs are willing to pay? Let's be honest Miller cost us next to nothing so any decent 7 figure offer and we are making a fantastic profit. All the earlier talk of £10 million was fantasy, that said I'd be delighted to be proved wrong. For me if any club was offering say £3 million and Miller wanted to go I'd bite their hand off ( ugly sisters excepted) The clubs interested in him know they can wait and get him for feck all next summer so I hope the new club board realises this.

I'm getting a bit bored with the whole saga now, we know Miller is going, so I'm more interested in who we have lined up to come in, we are 2 games into the season, the transfer window clock is ticking so it needs sorted ASAP.

Nah he will be gone this week and hopefully we can get a few new faces in before Saturday. That's been the standard response for a few weeks now and like MJC's predictions all of them wrong. So i agree it should be our strongest team in every game we play and if Miller is still a Motherwell player, he should play.

That's a very big assumption, who knows how much of the Miller money JBA will get for new signings? Unless hes had guarantees when he took the job. But as I said earlier I think he has targets in mind so there will be a flurry of activity when its no longer Miller time at Fir park.

The main thing about Boyd that upsets Motherwell fans is that when he talks about his career it started when he signed for Celtic, the Fir park years and the 91 Cup final have been erased from his memory and its got worse over the years. As has been stated previously hes an obnoxious tosser.

I get the impression that the club are waiting for the Miller transfer to be completed to see how much cash we have to splash on more signings.

I suspect Cardiff were the only team that were interested in signing him, given that Celtic lost about £1 million on him, paid us £3 million and Sold to Cardiff for an undisclosed fee reported as £2 million. Maybe hes just not as good as we all thought he would be.

I think that's known as Stamatelopoulos syndrome Dave🤔

What's it down to then, are you seriously suggesting that Motherwell as a professional football team are implementing training policies / procedures that are injuring its players or deliberately signing players that are injured?

Rangers did this last season as well, great results in Europe and bang average at best domestically, the same will happen this year.

I only saw the 2nd half and Shankland hardly touched the ball, he was anonymous, for me hes vastly overrated. I agree though both teams looked average at best, nothing to fear from either of them.

I have no idea if there was any sell on clause or not, either way if there was or its compensation related the club might still earn some more cash. They could use it to put some cover in at Mrs Baillies to stop the lager getting wet.

£1.4 million allegedly, its been rejected by Sturm Graz. According to various bits of online chatter there are a few clubs interested in him, I hope we had a sell on clause in the deal when he left us.

You've taken that too far, Grizzlyg is the forum comedian leave the attempts at humour to him.

He changed his mind live on Sky last night during the after match analysis " Motherwell wont finish 11th" he said, so its either top 10 or relegation then 😂

We gave ourselves a chance of a top 6 finish last season while playing absolutely shitfest football. So if we can maintain the standard we've set so far, bring in a decent centre forward and a defensive midfielder, a top 6 finish is a very achievable target, for me i reckon it will be 5th or 6th

I know this might sound ridiculous but Ross Callachan is actually on the pitch playing football, on as a sub for Arbroath v Ayr, hes had one touch in 10 mins.

Its not that long ago that the club did not care about the home fans and gave the ugly sisters the South and Cooper stands as well as both wings of the POD any time they were in town, moving many ST holders in the process. The only thing the club can do given that they are bound by league rules etc is to do away with match categories and charge all fans home and away the same price, for all stands apart from the Hunter, I think its currently £26 for the POD. But it will never happen as the financial cost to the club would be prohibitive, 5000 away fans in thd South stand at £8 is £40k, 4 times a year is £160k that could finance 1 or 2 players wage.. Thats also another reason why league reconstruction is so difficult to get agreement on, clubs dont want to lose any of the revenue from games against the ugly sisters.

Let's hope we don't get too greedy, these big clubs will have no problem waiting till next summer and get to sign him for nothing if required.

Agreed as always the club are cashing in on the large support the ugly sisters bring to Fir Park, at the expense of the home fans as they need to charge the same price. Clubs should be encouraging fans to attend matches, charging £34 a ticket is not the way to do it, a ticket, pie and bovril and you are already nearly £42 down.

As far as i am aware its a beer garden with little or no shelter/ cover. In Scotland it will be lucky to be open on matchdays given the weather we have.

STV news reporting that JBA has confirmed bids have been received for Miller but no further details, I can't see him starting against Rangers.

I assume its located on the spare ground at the unfinished end of the POD stand, if it is there is a distinct lack of signage.

A fair bit of online chat re Bologna and Udinese, but nothing to suggest an actual bid has been received. If he starts against Rangers then I would say the club has not received any genuine / acceptable bids, if hes not in the squad then that would suggest a move may be forthcoming, time will tell.