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I would say thats a great bit of business for Dundee should he stay fit.

Scott Wright signs for Dundee. Ha!

It's all moot anyway but we wouldn't have had to pay £1.5m for Aouchiche, we could easily have said to Sunderland "nah, not paying that but we'll give you zero pounds instead" and got him that way. A decent player but we seem to have been clearing out the old loans to get the new ones in so on that basis it's no surprise he's away. On paper, a midfield of Aremu, Geiger and Cameron should be an upgrade on what we had before but I'm not sure a better midfield helps our inability to defend set pieces... maybe we're planning on 100% possession every week so that the other team can't even get a corner.

Without a doubt, of those who left last year, he’s the biggest miss of all.

Aouchiche away then. Far from the worst signing of the summer, but let’s be honest, there was absolutely zero chance we were forking out £1.5m for him. Should have kept McGrath…

Us and a good few others I suspect.

Aouchiche has gone to Schalke on a permanent transfer, not clear if there was a fee involved.

“At this stage in the day, however, The Press and Journal can reveal a deal between League One play-off chasers Luton and Aberdeen for Clarkson looks unlikely due to the sides’ respective valuations of the 24-year-old, who still has 18 months left on his Aberdeen contract. The P&J understands one other English club have also expressed an interest in signing playmaker Clarkson.”

Nice of Dante to leave his haircut for the loon to inherit.

I believe we can rule out John McGlynn. I think there’s some personal issues involved and he may be looking to step away from management sooner rather than later.

Hopefully we can count on him to make the midfield tick Could form a good partnership with SIEVERT-Nilsen ... Dinna worry, I can get my own coat

He should be the nucleus of our midfield.

Not a great start for him as manager who signed him has been fired.

Geiger done then. Let's hope he's the lynchpin we're desperately needing.

Think he's been used like us,as a late sub rather than regular starter

Interesting one this. Heart's James Wilson off to Spurs on loan until season end, so that they can play him in their U21 team until then. Fee agreed for loan to become permanent deal at that time is they still rate him. Hope it goes well for him and he develops to become a first team player there as it would work to the national team's benefit long term Arsenal also wanted him but wouldn't commit to agreeing a future fee now.

I heard that they offered Dundee Tom McIntyre on loan as part of that deal but Dundee are looking for eye watering fee.

Portsmouth had quite a chunky number rejected already, doubt he's in our price range now. Speaking of Portsmouth, they signed that left-sided defender Ibane Bowat that we were after about 18 months ago from Fulham. Has only played 7 times for them this season after missing a year out with injury. Could be an option if they're actively looking for additional defenders and fits the perma-crock criteria.

Out of desperation do we fork out the funds for Luke graham??

I thought he was coming on to a game in last 6 weeks and while not looking like a player you would spend £1.5m on he was one of our better players (very low bar admittedly) and one who I would have kept if the deal could have been renegotiated.

Totally understand your viewpoint and agree in parts to some of what you're saying, I just feel that through the years there has almost been a "happy to take part" kind of attitude within our club. This was exemplified by going close to 20 years since winning the League cup in 1995 until winning it again in 2014 and 35 years between reclaiming the Scottish Cup. I'm not suggesting in any way that we should be winning cups every season but for the size of club we are in such a small country then we should be doing a hell of a lot better when you think that teams such as St Johnstone, Ross County, Killie, Livingston, St Mirren, Hibs, Dundee Utd & Hearts have won a trophy, if not more than 1, this century. Then you add in our record at Ibrox that lasted god knows how many years and our current record against Celtic both home and away. It's incredible and embarrassing that a club with the resources to be the 3rd biggest in the league has such a poor record against their 2 main challengers. Yes you could argue that Sevco and Celtic raise their game against us but aren't we meant to raise our game against them also? I genuinely believe that if AFC played Celtic 20 times in the league then we'd be fortunate to win once and very unlikely to have a clean sheet in any of the games, I'd wager that teams in the Championship or even lower league than that would put up more of a fight against them and that is pure and simply down to belief. I hope come Wednesday I'm wrong but the general consensus seems to be that we'll get hammered by at least 4/5 goals. Of course there'll be players coming out after the game and stating how it's unacceptable AGAIN but come the next fixture we'll line up most likely with the same 11 and it'll be an absolute lottery which players decide to try. You can also add in the seemingly endless stream of the run of games played and no goals scored which I believe started with McInnes not long before he got his jotters. Yes we were crap before him but I don't recall previous AFC squads going on these types of horror runs. These seem to almost be happening every season now and again we are meant to be the 3rd biggest team in the country but we serve up these records on an annual basis. This all stems from there being no accountability or pressure to perform because win, lose or draw we all know, within reason, who will be starting (even though the fanbase would call for certain players to be dropped). And I do understand that we can't drop 11 players every game but there has to be a level of "management" coming from within that showcases to the supporters what performances will be tolerated and which wont, words aren't enough for some things.

Apparently, we were looking at Tyler Fredricson of Manchester United, but he's staying put.

I think this point about the correct standards not being set is absolutely at the root of our problems this season (and previous years, but for these purposes I’m talking about this season). Our pre season was an absolute farce. I’ve genuinely no idea what Thelin was thinking with that. We were massively undercooked going into that first game against the diets and we’ve never recovered. Our fitness levels are also poor, see point one above. I watched the diets vs the Tims the other week, and they ran and pressed all day and never stopped. Our lot just couldn’t do that, never mind show the level of mentality, intensity and desire the diets showed. We need to massively raise our standards and expectations as a club. They talk about the standards expected at AFC, but the reality is very different and that needs to change…

Central defence now a major concern. Should’ve kept Dorrington.