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steelboy needs one or two random players to call "utter shite" every season. He peaked when it was Higdon that was in his sights when he also accused him of being fat.

Between Carson, Randolph, Gillespie and Kelly it would be Randolph who shades it for me. Very happy, however, that they all played for us and there is no way I'd be looking to punt Kelly.

He's exactly as good as I think, but I l do love a good wages rumour. Especially one that uses hard figures like "too much".

My only minor niggle with Nevin is, at least up until now, he has never seemed to take any blame for the mistakes that happened under his watch. Be interested to hear if his book is any different in that regard. Actually, I lied. My other niggle is the night he played a major part in defeating us 4 - 3 at FIr Park in a cup game when he was making his name as a youngster at Clyde.

I suspect the deadline for responding to contract negotiations will be strictly enforced - unless the player is one we really really want and then we will be more flexible for a few weeks. Our league safety wasn't secured until quite late this season, so some of the offers probably came late in the day compared to recent years.

He said it would take life changing money for a Scottish club to afford him. That was basically saying, as he's under contract, we would want silly money to sell him to a league rival, but would ask for less if he was being sold outside the country.

I thought he played seasons in both, but you could be right. He did score quite a few cup goals too, though, including their League Cup final appearance and their Scottish Cup victory.

When he was at Hibs his record was 21 goals in 42 games, 25 goals in 49 games and 23 goals in 41 games. Seems the Premiership made him look a good player too.

Being a keeper is a strange life as for most of them most of the time, it's a career consisting of being a backup. So on one hand I can see the attraction of at least being a well paid backup (or in Gillespie's case, a well paid backup to the backup's backup backup). On the other hand, I've never heard a professional footballer ever say at the end of their career "I wished I'd played less games". It must be difficult for a pro to train every week for competition, but never compete. I'd have thought, at least for early-mid career you'd want to get as many appearances as possible at whatever level you could. While Randolph is a bench warmer in recent times, he did get a tilt at the EPL (including his win against Liverpool), had a very good Championship career, has made over 400 first team appearances and won 50 caps for Ireland. So his retirement fund padding at West Ham and recent signing for Bournemouth make more sense. Gillespie has obviously made peace with his wage packet and the fact he won't be near the first team. Presumably working at the club he supports has made it easier.

Agree with that and will also be surprised if he reaches 15 next season at his new club. Higdon has the best tally in recent times managing 14 in the season after he was top scorer with us. Moult managed 2, Sutton managed 3 the first time he left us and 1 the second time he left us. Tommy Coyne managed 1 in the season after he left us. Wullie P managed 12 league goals with Utd in his first season, but did manage another 8 in cup competitions. Which again just shows how good he was.

Not completely convinced about that. He was ready to start when we ended the loan, but there is a good argument that playing a few months at Cove was what got him to that point.

What Danzaki did was sign a contract until 2025.

I think that is needed. We had about 33 players make first team appearances last season, not including the youngsters with their cameos. Not sustainable for a club our size.

Wonder what the headline in the Rancid will be regarding the players leaving us... "Former Celtic forward among Motherwell exits.." Of course!

I doubt there's any footballer who has retired thinking "I wish I played less games" Keepers are a strange breed though and have to prepare for long spells out the game. I suppose it's a nice bonus to be on EPL money, even if it comes from the new wave of Saudi sportswashing cash and sketchy company structures designed to bypass the financial fair play rules. But that is a discussion for a different thread.

I haven't actually looked at it.

TIL; the club has an Instagram account

Once we've spent our 'war chest'

I was thinking more along the lines that the article didn't say we'd accepted their bid, only that KVV had agreed terms. Of course that means we gave permission for him to negotiate, but was unclear if we had agreed the transfer fee terms.

It's not rocket science, however, to figure out our transfer dealings from the end of season accounts.

While I appreciated Ready's frustration at the time, I remember his public complaints making him sound like a spoiled brat. His message seemed to be that footballers were special and shouldn't be treated like other employees in other businesses when administration kicks in. I'd imagine the vast majority of fans in Lanarkshire have been through redundancy at least once and didn't expect the special treatment Mr Ready was expecting.

Bob Malcom's entry in wikipedia is where I tested out the theory "can anyone really edit these things?" Over the course of the years it was edited slightly by moderators, but the basic made-up "fact" is still there. (I promise I haven't made any wiki edits since then).

Not quite a done deal, but sounds like it's heading in that direction.

Be interesting to see if he takes them up on that offer. According to the wiki entry their most recent season makes Dundee Utd's look like a roaring success.

That was the Dundee Utd model that put them into millions of pounds of debt and helped relegate them twice in recent seasons.