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The country ran out of ink before they could finish it

I mentioned this to my Jambo neighbour just there to see if I could get his blood pressure up a bit but he reckons a Saudi club are now sniffing about Shankland and if true he will surely be away for one last payday.

I wouldn't be pissed off if we signed him by any stretch either, he's a really good goal scorer at this level. I'm far from convinced he's better than Nisbet though, they are different types of forward though. Indeed if squad registration and fee wasn't a factor I would much prefer to sign Nisbet again than Shankland as he's already had a season of Thelinball and knows most of the players already. Realistically though Shankland is free and ticks the reg box so of course you sign him if that's an option. Maybe we should be looking at signing both of them....................... If anything else the seethe from Edinburgh would be hilarious

You're too kind Al I was pissed off when we let him go in the first place to be honest. Overall though I thought he did well at Livi, he was a pain in the arse to play against and he's scored afew against us since he left too. Not so sure how he did at Killie but he would get a lot more chances in front of goal with us and I think he would do just fine.

.................... ......... Come to think of it Shankland appears to be available and he would also tick the trained at club box....... I would prefer the Baggio from Banff to the Slabhead from the Slagheap though.

My big concern at the mo is euro registration rules. 25 places, 4 of which must be homegrown at club (which is trained at the club for at least 3 years before they are 21) and 8 must be homegrown in country (same rules but at any scottish club). For every place you can't fill with one or the other or both you lose a space in your squad. Eg you only have 3 players trained at club and 8 trained in country you can only register 24 players. Players under 21 don't need to be registered as long as they have been at the club for two years. At the moment we have 4 scots in the squad over 21. Shinnie, Devlin, Duncan and Milne so as things stand we can only register 21 players to play in Europe. Currently, assuming that the 4 above are registered, that would mean not registering one of: Suman, Nilsen, Polvara, Gueye, Palaversa, Yengi, Clarkson, Sokler, Morris, Rubezic, Topi, Milanovic, Molloy, Mitov, Gyamfi, Jensen, Knoester or Tobers. Not included in that list as I suspect they won't be here by then is Richard Jensen , Ambrose and Vinny. When it's looked at like this I think we need to be moving on Ruby and probably Sokler as well and replacing them with Scots. I tell you what, it maybe wouldn't be the worst idea in the world to have a look at bringing Bruce Anderson back perhaps. He's trained at club and absolutely capable at SPFL level. Given we have 4 centre halves all of whom are JT picked you could argue we don't really need Ruby anyway so it wouldn't necessarily have to be a like for like replacement for him.

There's a really good interview with the Chairman up on RTV in case anyone missed it.

Where the fuck did Millwall pull 5 million from? If memory serves Nisbet was their record signing prior to this. Regardless my feeling was that we weren't going back in for any player we had on loan last season.

2-1 flamengo, this is a fun game so far

Agreed.

Thoughts and prayers mate

He looks more than a little bit handy 2bf. He also looks quite happy playing on either side too which is quite rare. Could be he's one of those players you can play anywhere across the front line. If someone is going out I suppose it's also not impossible it's Keskinen after his euro U21 showing. Duncan is no winger imo, I would say he's an inside forward. He's not a get to the byline and cross it in kinda player but he's not awful on the ball and has a ping on him. Stick him on the right and have him cut in on his left with the rb overlapping and he could be effective for a team..... I don't think that team is going to be us unless he we have some sort of injury crisis.

And it would be tax free as well

That would be a tidy 850k in the hipper if it's true and happens.

Tims being linked with Miovski. Do we think he would be interested? I'm not convinced he would but football is a fickle business.