sancho_panza Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 It would be pretty optimistic to think him leaving won't make us a worse team. It's similar to when we lost Jack, most people thought he was an arsehole but it still made us a worse team because we had no chance of replacing him in the short-term. Best we can hope for is to unearth another young player who turns out to be as good as Ferguson in 2-3 years, at which point said player will probably run off to join Bournemouth or someone and the cycle will begin again. At least in this case we have a good situation with the contract so can get a decent fee in theory. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baggy89 Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 2 hours ago, sancho_panza said: It would be pretty optimistic to think him leaving won't make us a worse team. It's similar to when we lost Jack, most people thought he was an arsehole but it still made us a worse team because we had no chance of replacing him in the short-term. Best we can hope for is to unearth another young player who turns out to be as good as Ferguson in 2-3 years, at which point said player will probably run off to join Bournemouth or someone and the cycle will begin again. At least in this case we have a good situation with the contract so can get a decent fee in theory. Guess that’s why Jenks was brought in, for the short term and probably why we allegedly enquired about the possibility of a transfer for the long term with potential to develop. Hopefully Campbell begins to leave his mark on games more often. I think it’s also a bit revisionist to say we became worse after the rat left. We finished second in the league and lost to the beaten finalists in both cups. The real drop came when MacLean (in particular) and Shinnie went. These were replaced by Campbell not experienced enough, Ojo not good enough, McGeouch permanently injured and Ferguson undroppable… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sancho_panza Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 We replaced Jack with Greg Tansey, had fewer points in the league, a worse goal difference and went out at an earlier stage in both cups to Motherwell when in the previous season we'd made the final of both and lost to Celtic. It absolutely made us worse, things just didn't fall apart completely. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 I'm confident Jenks will be better than Tansey 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baggy89 Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 23 minutes ago, sancho_panza said: We replaced Jack with Greg Tansey, had fewer points in the league, a worse goal difference and went out at an earlier stage in both cups to Motherwell when in the previous season we'd made the final of both and lost to Celtic. It absolutely made us worse, things just didn't fall apart completely. Wasn't Tansey loaned to Ross County by the January of 2018? I suppose he could be blamed for the 3 points less we achieved that season but does he get any credit for however many points it was closer to Celtic we finished? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigAl Posted August 9, 2021 Author Share Posted August 9, 2021 34 minutes ago, Dad said: I'm confident Jenks will be better than Tansey A traffic cone that had been hit @ 120 mph would be better and more mobile than Greg Tansey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlg1903 Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 In fairness to that signing tansey had looked great at inverness. It was gamble he could step up but at the time I thought it had potential. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaarDon Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 33 minutes ago, BigAl said: A traffic cone that had been hit @ 120 mph would be better and more mobile than Greg Tansey Aye but what would be the breaking distance if it were a 1985 ford escort and the conditions were a slight wind and drizzly rain? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicoS321 Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 1 hour ago, tlg1903 said: In fairness to that signing tansey had looked great at inverness. It was gamble he could step up but at the time I thought it had potential. No he didn't. He was clearly not good enough to play in McInnes' system, he didn't cover the distance of Jack, Shinnie, McLean or even David Murray. That was blatant in his final season at Inverness. It was as ludicrous a signing as Main. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jute Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 Millwall have a bid rejected for Ferguson apparently. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/lewis-ferguson-aberdeen-transfer-resolve-27268464.amp Apologies for the source. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigAl Posted June 18, 2022 Author Share Posted June 18, 2022 That'll set off his old man, hun uncle, the old relic Bill 30% McMurdo and all, about big bad Aberdeen blocking poor Lewis's opportunity for his big move Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicoS321 Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 I'd be tempted to deal at not much more. Despite finishing our top scorer from midfield, he's not reached the levels he could have in the last year (I think the employing of Brown was an absolute disaster for his development). I think that a sideways step will be all he can really hope for at this stage (although the Scotland appearances will have helped). He needs to be challenged at championship level, where he'll play against a handful (or more perhaps) of teams above the dons level (of a couple of years ago). It'd be a massive punt for anyone above that to go for him, and I don't see him going abroad either. I think we missed the boat last season with the best offer we were likely to get. Try and get a few teams interested and see if we can get £2M. Another year in the SPFL will do neither him nor us any good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepheid Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 He’s going to be a big loss to us. Player of the year for us, despite it being given to McCrorie. Not only will we lose out in the midfield, we’ll lose goals too potentially. He’s always been good at converting penalties and we’d need someone to take that on with the same success. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jute Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 Totally agree will be a massive loss to Dons but also agree with Rico that for him to continue to develop he needs to move on although I do still think European route might be best for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlg1903 Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 On 19/06/2022 at 16:09, Jute said: Totally agree will be a massive loss to Dons but also agree with Rico that for him to continue to develop he needs to move on although I do still think European route might be best for him. He's not getting much of a chance to date. So far he's come off the bench at the San Siro for about 10 minutes and not had a sniff in the 4 games that followed. Quite surprised by that, 3 mill is a reasonable outlay for Bologna. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jute Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 Still early yet but has to be a concern for lad that they changed 4 of 5 starting midfielders yesterday and he still did not get on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlg1903 Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 Indeed 3 hours ago, Jute said: Still early yet but has to be a concern for lad that they changed 4 of 5 starting midfielders yesterday and he still did not get on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panda Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 He played the last 13 minutes of the 3-0 defeat to Juventus on Sunday, which is his first minutes for some time. That means he's played just 20 minutes of first team football, yet those have been at the San Siro & Juventus stadium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panda Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 Made his first start for Bologna today away to Napoli. 2-2 with an hour played. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlg1903 Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 Just came to post this, 3-2 Napoli now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigAl Posted October 17, 2022 Author Share Posted October 17, 2022 17 hours ago, Panda said: Made his first start for Bologna today away to Napoli. 2-2 with an hour played. Did he play the full ninety minutes ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicoS321 Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 38 minutes ago, BigAl said: Did he play the full ninety minutes ? Yes. He had two shots off target, which is approximately 43 less than in each of his last 30 appearances for the dons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panda Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 By all accounts he had a solid game v Napoli. However, Italian media reporting he has a "contusione al polpaccio", ie a bruised calf, and so is a doubt for the Coppa Italia game v Cagliari on Thursday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigAl Posted October 20, 2022 Author Share Posted October 20, 2022 In the starting line up again tonight 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlg1903 Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 Might stick that on actually Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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