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lol no chill pill required. I am very laid back..just asking a pertinent question to your post, thats allowed surely. Nostalgic signings..really..?? your right we are not Man Utd so cannot afford any nostalgia in any of our signings. Cold sharp reasoning and judgement is required for signings and for us to survive. If you want a signing that will get the fans through the door you need to splash cash on that type of player and we don't have it. Why not sign Ruddy or Randolph and bring back Jamie Murphy and while I am at it install Martinez as manager if I was feeling nostalgic and wanted marketing signings. If I thought for a minute we were signing players for nostalgia reasons I would never go back and be calling fo the managers head. anyway apologies if this has been already posted http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33276261

Is that not what a forum is about though..? I hope your right and he turns out to be a shrewd acquisition but the fans should be allowed to ask the question. No chance of a response but good to debate it.

If thats the case then it is a terrible signing. Bringing a player in just to please the fans is a completely ridiculous and reckless approach to keeping the club in the premiership and solvent.

Definitely not forgotten, however, Faddy was brilliant first time around but just didn't work for me this time. Just because they were good once doesn't mean they will be the same whereas Skippy definitely did work out but some people on here have claret and amber tinted specs and couldn't care less what impact he will have. . He will be judged on his performances next season by me critically and honestly and if he proves me wrong then brilliant but if not, him being a great servant before will cut no ice with me and he will get both barrels. The club is bigger than any former player and its survival is top priority for me so handing contracts to former well players should I hope solely be based on what they can offer and how they fit into the system being considered by the manager, nothing else. Some people quite rightly question his signing as from his recent history and form has absolutely no sell on potential and question what he will bring to the club. Others are delighted that another former well player has signed and can't or probably won't care if he still has the capability he once had. The club have been quite rightly talking up the new scouting system and software and the potentially hundreds of new players available and we sign a former Well player who was released for nothing. These are the stone cold facts and some may not like that but I am putting them out there not to be anti Clarkson in any way I am maybe more trying to understand where the club is going in its signing policy. I understand the arguments of solid pros working with youngsters but we have plenty of them still in the team as it stands. Maybe in that vein he will be bringing some guidance to the young strikers to bring them on much like Skippy done in his short spell here with Erwin. I dunno really just thinking out loud.

Well at least its got us all something to talk about now

Dunno how I feel about this to be honest...Excellent player in the past. He done well when he started for Dundee then just disappeared. Got released at the end of season. I hope he is the back up striker that gives us options.and we are still looking at other strikers...tin hat on for the backlash from the luvvies

Thats a good shout, would be very interesting if he could do that..wouldn't mind seeing him in that position ina few friendlies to see if he could do it. His finishing is superb but is his positioning..?

That it..underwhelming... Had to get that in before DEWELL or MJC lol...excellent news...keep it coming

Jesus fuck..the guy hasn't had a chance to do anything before he moved on and we are already slagging him off with absoultely no proof whatever that he done a bad job

That may be true but the results haven't always been great. We are trying to move on and be more professional and have a sustained and permanent presence in the transfer market rather than reacting to losing players when we could have been proactive in our recruitment and retention.

I agree, this person was brought in to help build the club up again, this is a mid to long term plan and never good to hear someone move on so quickly especially with the new season only a few weeks away and a major squad rebuild under way

Think David needs to update the comings and goings pinned topic...keep it up to date

Definitely... but I want to concentrate on who we are getting to replace him. He has gone...We will get whatever compensation we are due so I wish him the best but I have put his transfer behind me and want to look to the future as he is surely doing. I would rather speculate on do we have youth players who are as exciting and are next on the conveyer belt. I just don't have any interest once they are gone.

Not our player anymore, couldn't care less

I actually wouldn't mind getting some actual players quoted as possibles but some people on here are really ripping the piss with some players who I wouldn't pick for a pub team never mind the Well and no I don't have a particular choice myself or looking too far above our position just decent common sense players linked to the club is fine. The QOS player is a case in point handy player who we missed out on allegedly, excellent post the rest are just laughable. Like weeyin says probably best reading it in August when the straw clutchers are finished.

FFS gonna stop posting shite in this thread unless it is a signed player as I see updates and rush to check and its about some fanny thats been released from some shitty club. Can we have a thread started for that type of nonsense. Maybe call it " Bullshit player who will never be signed by Motherwell but I just noticed he was released from "insert club name" thread.

His agent will be definitely pushing for Leeds so that he can get a bigger cut of the cash. Good player but don't think he is being advised very well if he does go to Leeds. He won't see a game for years down there if ever.

I believe he is still only 22, so plenty of time to cut out the mistakes and improve his game. I find the best defenders are in their late 20's early 30's when they seem to blossom and are usually at the height of their game. For me he comes into the category of a sellable asset if we can get him signed up.

Yeah will be an interesting close season and will see the end of the line for some wage thieves like Vigurs. Signing Laing would be a great start. If we do keep Erwin some media training would help as well as there is no doubt the TV companies will be making a beeling for him for the postmatch interviews. Would be delighted if he stays but he is a very rough diamond who needs taken under an experienced pros wing, which leads me to the experienced pros. McManus had the two best games since coming to Fir Park but his season has been mediocre at best. Maybe he needs Laing in beside him as that seems to have worked wonders. McDonald will go sadly as I feel that an English Championship side will take the chance on him, if not, would be delighted to have him as a solid attacking centre mid. His days up front I think are gone and he has shown some ability as a attacking mid or trequartista. The great thing about Motherwell managers is the fans have no idea who the hell we will sign and its usually someone we know very little about. As long as we stay away from ex-players that some our fans have an obsession with. Pearson and McDonald aside most have not worked and I include Faddy in that. Onwards and upwards hopefully.

After a Well win on Sunday, dinner will be succulent lamb followed by Jelly and Ice cream...(stolen from a Rangers punter on Radio Gers phone in a few days ago, team changed for obvious reasons he predicted 4-0 at Ibroke and a leisurely stroll on Sunday)

Hopefully hear today how Pearson is, I hope it was just a precaution taking him off.

Its meltdown on Rangers media although they say it was all down to luck tonight and they will hammer us at Fir Park, they are fucking delusional that lot...

Get yourself an android box

I always like watching this to remind me of how superior the Rangers fans and their team are....compared to other single celled life forms

Sorry but almost all of thats bullshit. I am trying to be reasonable but your just being eristic. I agree plenty of Well fans have sunk more money than some can really afford into the club but I don't think we can say anyone has sunk a million or they wouldn't be looking for more well society members. Just because the club has a potential value doesn't mean that value will be realised..no one can until its sold and if it is then no one, other than creditors would benefit from a defunct club so the argument about land value is moot. Les has never mentioned selling the club or the park to get his money back from what I remember. He came in when no one else would and you giving him grief from half a season of ownership is just plain crazy. From what I am hearing the guy has rectified so many things in the background that was needing done it was absurd. The club has to be rebuilt from the foundations up on a successful model and it sounds so far like that is being put in place. No one can expect top youths coming through the ranks overnight. He has basically put a plaster over the cracks player wise until he can get to the end of the season and get the hard work started.