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Chris mcglauchlin reporting on twitter ecks been binned. Next!

Citeh spurs has been bonkers

A month after the fact still reported as 6.5 mill. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45805859 I've never once heard the club say it was less, not saying it didn't happen but I didn't hear it if they did. Got a source for that?

Glad your not director of football at afc. McKenna would be at the San giro if so..... He's worth way more than 3.5 and it wasn't ludicrous to turn down that offer of 6.5. It was deadline day the bid came in and we couldn't have replaced him. Given how our defensive injuries went in the first half of the season we would have been completely screwed without McKenna.

The 2 mill for Cosgrove I heard on sportsound. Make of it what you will but all things considered it seems about right. I would wager Cosgroves new deal would be about 3k a week give or take making his overall contract worth about 470k. Given we don't want to sell him and he's young you can multiply that a few times for final transfer fee. As for fees paid to Scottish clubs from English John Mcginn went for 2.75 in the final year of his deal. SM has 4 years left and a lot of teams have been sniffing about him which puts the price up even more. Add it all up and a deal worth 8 mill doesn't sound particularly steep if you ask me. I could, of course, be wrong but time will tell. I think we can all agree that we will find out what the club are prepared to accept inside the next 2 months though.

2 mill was the chat through the week from Millwall. He's under contract till 2022 so given age and potential I would say that's probably fair. As for 8 Mill for McKenna well we have already turned down 6.5.

Well, that was just horrible. Haven't had the stomach to watch the highlights but the game was over the moment Ball went off. I have watched his second yellow again and I can see why it was a yellow but, equally, if he had gone down also he probably would have got away from it as there was clearly no intent. Didn't think his first was a yellow though and that's galling as I thought we were staring to frustrate celtic and actually getting into their half at times. I would concede that Celtic probably would have won anyway but I thought that pre match. The collapse of discipline was very concerning and, for me, highlights how much we missed Shinnie. He is going to be a huge loss next season and finding a successor for him next seasons will be very difficult. Still plenty to play for at least but as I said previously this has been a pretty disappointing season bar results against the tribute act. Anyone else feeling very apprehensive about next season. We will be without for sure Shinnie, Stewart, gms, Lowe and McKenna. Wouldn't be surprised to see Lewis away as well nor Cosgrove either. That's potentially 6 players who are all first choices offski and yet another rebuild for Mcinnes. And it will be Mcinnes unless he decides to walk himself. I can't see Milne moving DM on 1. cos he loves him and 2. looking for a new manager when you're trying to build a new stadium is extra hassle and expense that you don't need. Do I have faith that he will be able to do it? History tells us he will find some good ones and bad ones but there could be a fair whack of cash coming in to the club this summer to complicate matters. If all of them went I think reasonable fees would be 8 for mckenna, 2ish for Cosgrove, do well to get the same again for Lewis as he's ooc come 2020 but I would expect at least a mill. Add on 4 mill if Fraser gets that arsenal move and that is 15 mill in over the summer (most of it will go to the stadium but I reckon Cormack will make sure a decent amount will go to the playing staff). Add to that the club is going to have a new big selling point for potential players in that we will have a 11.5 mill training facility. Interesting times lie ahead.

Using the word fenian is just downright hunnish and afc 'fans' should not be using it at all. I heard someone shout it yesterday from somewhere quite near behind me so I turned and shouted out fuck off to ibrox with chat like that. Didn't hear it again but I left when Ferguson got his straight red.

Never heard of him, any particular exploits stand out rocket?

Lennon was great at what he did, mast bastard midfielder that broke up play and moved it on to the tech players in his team. Real leader too, I would have happily had him at Aberdeen as a player.

The whole thing from start to finish has been about the lead the tory party takes full stop if you ask me Kow.

Fair play to brown, that interview was pretty funny

Loved the managers defence of shinnie yesterday.

I heard a rumour a few months back that Mcleish has early stages of dementia. I'm not going to say the source but I will say it was credible.

Wasn't just Leicester though was it (I would also add if we had won the league the same season as them in terms of resource our achievement would have been greater). In the past ten years athletico and montpellier have won their respective divisions against significantly greater resourced teams. For afc to win the league we would need to have an almost flawless league campaign and the good fortune that celtic were having an off season. It's not impossible, just pretty improbable.

For singing 'Sad orange bastard' at Gerrard.

It was a stalemate but I thought we played really well. Our structure was excellent and as for the slating of Mclennan I very much disagree. He made a few mistakes and lost the ball but overall I thought his attitude and drive was spot on and their rb didn't have a moments peace. Everyone's was though 2bh. Considine was an absolute rock today.

Dreary first half, neither side could keep the ball. Best change was a long ranger from Ajjer that Lewis saved.

Tremendous

Using generally hunnish language would be my guess.

Tell more please.

We are most likely going to lose, probably convincingly. Prove me wrong AFC

tin hat on but I really didn't think we played that badly last night 2bh. We started poorly but came right back into it fairly quickly. When Hamilton scored what was either a complete freak (most likely) or a total worldie (and if he intended that it's a real contender for the best finish I have ever seen in Scottish football) it was massively against the run of play. For the vast majority of the rest of the game we were all over them but they defended pretty well to be fair. We made an absolute cunt of the second one though and if I feel any anger it's over that. All in I didn't think we did that much wrong and it was just one of those days where everything went against us. Cue vitriol. Is there any word on the Lowe's injury? The Mcinnes question is rearing it's head again isn't it? Understandably so. Still don't think wiggy will do anything other than offer him a new deal, I.E if he's going it will be on McInnes's terms. I have wondered if it is time for a change a few times this season though but, realistically, I have no idea who I would want in. Overall I don't think the support would be feeling brenda level disappointment if McInnes was to leave at the end of the season despite some good times with McInnes. The thing is sometimes a change is good if it's handled properly and that prospect can be quite seductive...... Especially after losing 2 scud at home to fucking Hamilton. Here's the question though: if he was to be leaving the club in the summer who would you want in to replace him? No chance on Clarke btw, he took the Killie job to be close to his parents in their final years as i hear it. Celtic would have appealing to him perhaps until the bigots of both colour all finally clocked on to the fact that the repeal of the OBFA means they can sing what they want again (i suppose we shouldn't be surprised it took so long to sink in) so he'll be away south when the time is right for him. There's not to many options i can think of at the moment 2bh. Put it this way, Tommy Wright would likely top a board shortlist if they were looking for a new manager right now and I'm well aware how a lot of of people on this board view him.

Shinnie is the best option, I would play ball over gleeson though. What I think will actually happen though is a back 3 with mcginn as rwb.

promoting youth from the ranks has never been something dm has been prolific with but I think McKenna has perhaps given him a wee bit more confidence. McLennan and Campbell are both getting good opportunity this season and Anderson must be in his thoughts for next season. Re Wright. The past is the past but all that really matters at the moment is that Scott Wright is doing very well at Dundee which is what we should be wanting to happen. He plays a blinder for the rest of the season he comes back to us buzzing and hungry to make his mark. I agree this move should have been done last season but such is life. I think Macinnes is capable of developing youth quite well 2bf, Cosgrove would be a good case in point and both Maclean and Christie left better players than when they arrived. His biggest black mark is shankland though, everytime i saw him in red he looked overweight compared to what he looks like now. If you're genuinely trying to give a kid the best shot you can you should at least be making sure they are fully fit.