Transfer speculation . . in and out.

Is it not worth thinking about? Do you think our youth set up is working? Do you know roughly how much it costs us to run it each year? How many of our development squad from last year, eg, are still at the club? How many have broken into the first team and made an impact?

We operate in a small country yet other teams seem to have far, far more success than us than finding the decent players out there. Why? I think we should look at spending our money more wisely and atm, that is on the first team squad, not the youths.

As for Kennedy. Maybe he needs help. He is a young and inexperienced and as I pointed out, we have been a shambles at the back against most decent opposition since Mjallby left.

 

McGeoch went for buttons. So in effect, we have produced about one good player in 10 years. Two if you include Forrest who is not a multi million pound player. How much do you think we've spent on the youth in those 10 years? It's way more than we have produced.

 

You do if its not working and we can easily afford to buy any half decent players from any other club in the country. Youth set ups are a drain on a lot of clubs resources. I know that Scotland is not exactly overflowing with talent but we have a god awful record of it since we built Lennoxtown, when it was supposed to improve dramatically.

 

Would like to see us stay away from loan deals tbh but the big Dane could be worth a shot.

Have been surprised that we havent signed more Scandanavian players with Ronnys knowledge of the region.

 

Would like us to sign another centre back and get rid of Ambrose.

 

Aye, that's true. I haven't even seen Simunovic yet, hope he isn't another Boerrigter.

Any idea when Mulgrew is back?

 

Who knows, there seems to be no transparency when it comes to injuries at Celtic atm. Delia doesn't like giving out timelines by the look of it.

 

Shame that because I love listening to him in his interviews. Really hope he manages to get us CL qualification next year as I want him at the club for a few years.

 

I would be happy to see our youths coming through if they were good enough. Souttar was mocked simply because he will not improve our first team now. Whether we like it or not, we need to improve our first team drastically now. Not in two years. We have chosen to go down a route where we spend any money we have on project players and look where it has taken us. It is almost 3 years to the day when we beat Barca and then qualified from that group into the last 16. Look at us now. It is entirely self inflicted and although we cannot realistically expect to get through every year, we can expect to at least give ourselves a chance of doing so. By selling all the players we have we have cost ourselves money. It is a false economy doing what we are doing now.

For me the solution is simple really. Start buying players who are bought with the intention of making us better as a team and not ones that we hope we can develop simply to sell. The way we are going doesn't give any manager of us a chance. As I said last week, we will always be in transition. This myth about giving the manager time etc is complete nonsense. No manager will ever have time to build us a team because we know that if any of our players does come good they will be sold.

We should be buying players with experience as getting into the CL group stages will more than offset any monies we would make from selling. It would also attract fans back and give the club some pride back as well.

 

Great signing Cole. He's a good guy too, hope it works out for him

 

As a West Ham fan as well as County you'll get cartloads of effort from Carlton.

That's about it though, he's a total donkey.

 

I honestly think he'll bang in a few for you and for free it's not a bad deal, but don't expect anything massive from him. His record is roughly between 1 in 4 and 1 in 5.