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Turnbull signs for Cardiff City for a reported £2 million. What do we get?

Another fullback? Fuck off Kettlewell.

Less than two hours to go.

Yep, I and others made this point a long time ago.

Apathy, likely beginning during the Covid season and fully realised through the serial mismanagement we’ve witnessed since.

Poor lad caught a dose of the Obika's. I wish him well in his recovery; he looked promising in the LWB role.

The update is vague in terms of the status of the loan, but I assume this means Monty is now a former player. https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2024/02/01/adam-montgomery-injury-update/

There are potentially three more signings today, according to Scott Burns. Striker, left-back, and defender.

The young player has the tools but also has everything to prove during this loan spell, which should hopefully benefit us. I'm trying to be positive about our situation for once.

His record with the U21 squad was pretty good before stepping up to the first team. https://www.transfermarkt.com/jack-vale/profil/spieler/496660

34 hours to go. Tick tock.

I know, hence why I wrote 'seems unlikely and calls into question the accuracy of every other entry on the list.'

There is a list online which suggests that Kelly is on £4K per week, and it also suggests that Oxborough is on £2.5K per week, which would make him our second highest-paid player currently. That seems unlikely and calls into question the accuracy of every other entry on the list.

We really are keen to scrape the barrel with these arguments as justification for potential signings.

Signing a player who plays second fiddle to a player we released, who in turn played second fiddle to the crock we re-signed, would take some spiel from Kettlewell to justify.

I hear what you're saying about Bair. However, I don't think the January window is the time for another project or gamble up front, particularly given we've been seriously struggling to win games. And anyway, all the names are rumours, and a rabbit may still be pulled out of the hat.

It's four in twenty-two across the season, which is also crap, but it's only one in eighteen since the horrendous run began following our victory over Hearts on 3rd September.

Stuart Kettlewell. One victory in eighteen league matches.

It's a shithouse tactic, but I'd imagine most managers would use it if it could force an earlier move for the player they've signed on a PCA. Because of that, though, if a player is signed on a PCA to a team in the same league, it would make sense, and be fairer, that the PCA must be withheld from the public until the end of the season. However, I don't know enough about these things, although I remember Alexander being publicly annoyed about it when Watt signed a PCA with Dundee Utd.

Is our sell-on clause a % of any fee or a % of the profit received on any fee? If the latter, and he goes for £4 million, that would be a £1 million profit for Celtic, and we'd receive £100K if the deal is 10% of profit.

Our future left-back?

Losing Spittal to a direct rival would be a big blow. His goals and assists have been vital for us, and he's probably and deservedly one of the first names on the teamsheet.

Give me a couple of weeks to contact Panelbase.

If we sign two fit strikers and a solid centre-back, we might just start to score more than we concede.

I don't think you can equate this statement with my view that one win in eighteen is simply unacceptable. Being aggrieved by that poor record is far from being a person who believes we should win everything. It doesn't have to be a feast or a famine. We've had calm heads and supported him, as a club, by giving him another transfer window, which many would argue is undeserved.