steelboy

if we could get £300,000 and effectively turn 1 players into 3 players then i would take it. he has a lot of plus points but also a lot of rough edges and questions marks as to what kind of player he will end up as. i don't know who to replace him with but i'm not a football scout and don't watch much beyond motherwell and the midweek euro games. i do think it's telling though that billy mckay and niall mcginn signed new deals with ICT and aberdeen after having huge seasons, in previous years they would have had big offers from downs south. obviously english clubs don't think scoring in the spl is that big a deal so it shouldn't be too hard to get someone in who can put the ball in the net.

i was trying to give the guy a break. it's 4 in 54 since may 2012.

either way it's far better than 4 in 43.

imrie would be a terrible signing. the only bonus would be hearing people shout about his maw being a junkie and him shiting himself every week rather than 3 times a season. carey has ability but has failed at st mirren because he is a fat bastard with a shite attitude. no thanks.

either that or replicate the experience by drinking beer and singing well songs fully clothed while getting soaked in your shower for a few hours before walking round the block a few times before putting the game on. great day!

the badge is a story in itself and is part of the club's history. the guy who designed it for the competition did a great job and that it was created by a fan is part of it's appeal as well the three iconic images and the rest of the design.

steaua - we would have ran out of legs in the 2nd half odense - if sutton or humphrey had put in the chances in the first half i think we would have beat them pana - even if we had scored 3 at home the heat would have beat us

the font looks tacky compared to the simpler font on the current badge and the white ball would completely dominate it on an actual top.

he can sign a precontract elsewhere from january 1st. If we are going to get a decent price for him we'll have to cash in this window. If he runs his deal down he could end up with his best bud at ibrox for nothing.

i don't think we can knock any offers back. 400k would be our third biggest transfer sale in ten years i think after mcdonald and clarky.

as i understand it the society needs to have funds of £1.5m before the controlling interest is handed over. so if they have given over, for example, £100,000 in exchange for 6% that actually puts us further away from being able to take control of the club. it should be easy to clear this up and the board members should inform members if they are loaning the society's funds to the club on an interest free basis or if they are actually buying shares from the the club which would mean the goalposts have been shifted significantly. shares can be transferred for free as well as sold in the uk.

the club will be desperate to offload hutchy so i think we will be in the market for a centre half. we need everything apart from a left back and holding midfielder imo

hopefully that is the case but the quote andy posted makes it sound like the society has paid the club for the shares.

have to say i'd quite disapointed with this signing. not the type of player we need. i always thought of him as a big h*n thug at killie.

a pound a share is more than one third of the money raised so far.

haven't read this thread for a while. i think this needs some explanation. does this mean the society has less money than it did a few months ago? i'm reading this as instead of taking money from the society in the form of a loan to be repaid the club have exchanged shares for cash even although the shares were gifted for free by boyle.

i heard a rumour he has been in discussions with another club for the last few days about becoming their manager. when you remember the stick that mcdonald, mccormack, pearson and mcghee took for courting other clubs it is very odd that most posters are so happy for mccall to talk to other clubs.

everybody now knows that he is available for £130,000 and he is obviously keen on getting a move. i would rather have a manager who is 100% focused on us.

if it's not sheffield united it will be another team. better to get it over and done with now.

the article isn't about what motherwell achieved as a club it's about what the manager's achieved personally and mcleish has been the most succesful.

regardless of what he achieved with us managing at fir park was the springboard to a hugely succesful managerial career for mcleish. even the managers who were unsuccessful at fir park ended up with very good jobs after they left. black at coventry, malpas at swindon, gannon at peterborugh. i'd wager that apart from kampmann every manager we have had going back to mclean has earned more in their next job which has to make us an attractive prospect to potential managers.

When you see Greg wylde and Jamie ness get EPL moves and Danny Wilson go to Liverpool it does look like players leaving the old firm get better moves than they are due. Liam miller, mark burchill and Simon Donnelly are other examples. In three years time he will have to have fucked up majorly not to get the same deal again at Ibrox or down south.

playing in a defensive minded five man midfield is different from what he'll be expected. Think of hateley looking class in a holding role and a haddy in a pair.

he probably only signed his deal to avoid a peter houston type scenario where he makes himself available and nobody wants him. A small buy out clause was the perfect situation for him. He'll have to quit scotland as well as i'm sure league one teams play during international weeks

at least we didn't sign samson. The jury is out on whether lawson can contribute or if he'll be a fraseresque half arsed signing from a manager looking at the exit.