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A slightly less dark example of craziness many of us on here (myself included) got caught up in was the Abel Thermeus era of about 3 weeks. I think we had given him the nickname of “the flask” when he was just a trialist, and he quickly attained cult status only to get sent off in his first game (Killie away I think), not to be seen again.

I think a few of us got caught up in the hammerfist hype machine on here for Esteban. That was a bizarre episode.

All the talk of who we’ve signed so far, and who we’ve still to sign got me thinking of the past signings I was way off the mark on one way or the other. Someone who I thought would be terrible - Martyn Corrigan. I’m pretty sure he wasn’t getting a game at Falkirk, so seemed like a backup at the time. It also took me a while to warm to him when he got some games. Someone I thought was going to be awesome for us - Neil Tarrant. He was a free scoring striker for Ross County, and was on loan at Ayr when they roasted us in the Scottish Cup at fir park. He was particularly impressive. So when we signed him from villa I really thought we had got a bargain. Don’t think he played more than a couple of games. I’m guessing that Michael Higdon might feature a lot here, but who could have predicted his huge season?

No chance of shankland. Our remaining signings will come from the “never heard of him, so must be shite ” or the “I’ve heard of him, he’s shite” categories. I think the biggest possible signing would be getting Ariyibi back.

Has the deal been formally completed? The club isn’t going to say a word until that’s done.

Has there been real talk about Hartley or Johnson going?

I don’t think a couple is enough, I’d expect at least 3, but kind we’ve already signed Gallagher, Polworth, Carroll, Hylton, Sloth and Long, and have Semple and Livingstone in the first team squad. I can see another striker coming in, and definitely another winger, and hopefully more midfield cover, but we’re not replacing Turnbull, those kind of players cost 3million plus :-) I think we’re perpetually linked with lafferty. I don’t like him but you’d be kidding yourself if you think he wouldn’t be a good signing, especially in our system.

If I was writing this, that’s exactly what I’d do. Classic cliffhanger for a second series. Netflix should be all over this. I also fully expect to wake up tomorrow to find out that Turnbull never played for us in the first place.

Maybe we did, but he didn’t want it.

Our wages should be based on our regular income. That’s the only way to stay sustainable. One off windfalls should in the main be used for one off expenses, or areas where a return on investment is more likely - like youth development facilities, or repairs and upgrades that may reduce our ongoing costs. Doubling our wage budget doesn’t guarantee us success, and we have learned twice in the last 15 or so years that overspending and getting it wrong could be catastrophic. We’re still paying back Boyle and Hutchinson for those.

I wouldn’t go reading between the lines with the squad number announcement. Turnbull has a number because he hasn’t officially left yet. Cadden is out of contract, so wouldn’t have a number.

With the crazy money down there the sell on could be worth more than the initial fee. Gives me a reason to look out for English scores now.

There’s no way we didn’t include a sell on, it has been clear over that last few years that that’s just standard procedure for us and most other clubs. We even negotiate sell ons for guys we let go for nothing.

I’d tend to agree with the above, I can only see him ending up at Celtic.

So i think it’s safe to say that it was Turnbull’s agent who leaked the stories of Celtics bid being accepted and him turning down their terms. Maybe it would have been more prudent of both clubs to to stay quiet until a deal was done, and let the papers print what they want. Fans are going to piss their pants either way.

Maybe we should just not loan folk from hearts

I have to assume that there is enough interest from other clubs to prompt him to hold out for better offers. I agree that we should have just released the statement to say we accepted the bid then left it at that. Fans are going to moan either way, that’s what we do, and they should have waited until things were signed and sealed before trying to justify it. in relation to that, I have found the comments from Burrows, Wilson, and our friendly journalists about how great a deal this is and how lucky we are, and why we should be grateful, to be really cringeworthy. I don’t think anyone has a huge issue about us selling our players, in this case the issue is who it was to, the timing, and the manner in which it was communicated that pissed some folk off.

A moat would be great for preventing pitch invasions, and we could have floating advertising signs, like a more laid back version of those annoying as fuck electronic ones with cars on them. I’m sold. Now looking forward to the exclusive in the sun.

FWIW Burrows also mentioned the 3m+ figure on the twitter, and has been answering some tweets, so not exactly hiding. but this all still fucking blows.

This sucks ass

A higher budget doesn’t guarantee success, unless we’re talking about out-spending the city clubs, which we can’t do because you can only spend what you have. We also tried that and the club almost died. Our player budget should always be a percentage of our regular income. Gambling the clubs existence for a slightly better chance of finishing 5-6th isn’t sustainable.

This is the market we work in, and I don’t see that changing any time soon. Rarely are we going to sign a player that we all know and are going to get excited about.

I mind we did one on here back in the WTFC days, pretty sure flow was the one behind it. I’m surprised it has taken so long for the club to do something like this.

That rumored guy from Northampton has signed for crewe

I can see the initial class being a mix of guys from different eras, but the names above would be no brainers for me.