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The problem with successful improvement of loanees is that it makes the parent club more likely to keep them.

Right? You'd have to be mad to buy a player who scored 15 goals, keen to learn and has room to improve!

I mostly don't either, but the Former Motherwell Players thread generates enough posts to suggest other people do. Likewise, a number of fans seem to follow ex-players on Twitter (X). To be honest, if it's too annoying or to have to scroll past one tweet, then maybe Twitter/X isn't for you. Of course posts this time of year are mostly filler, because there is little activity anywhere apart from pitch remediation and players being on holiday.

He often operated like a modern wingback, except he was also a brilliant defender. I've never seen anyone that could time a tackle better than him. And they were often full blooded crunching tackles. I've lost count of the number of times he'd go sliding in to an opposition player and come away with the ball to either start bombing up the left wing or hit his favourite curling pass up the touchline to a wide player.

Split the difference. Let him get 10 goals the first half of the season and sell him for 500k in January. (Add 50k per goal scored in the Copa America this summer).

Sell Theo for 1.5million plus add-ons. Re-sign Alex Fisher on a free. Let SK turn Fisher into a 15 goals-a-season striker. Profit.

I agree we won't be getting 3 mil, but our recent sales of players under contract have been quite lucrative. Kipré is a good example of what can be negotiated.

3 million (Euros) will open negotiations, and we'll take it from there.

Lots of players (and agents) on holiday and 3 months before the window closes. The trend in recent times has been for one or two players to sign earlier and more and more players waiting until later in the summer before committing. Plus, of course, there will be some current players mulling over contracts who we need to wait on before we know if we need to replace them. And then we need to wait to see if any offers come in for players we weren't looking to replace.

Also available as a onesie

They have had options, but it hasn't stopped many of them from being relegated anyway. Dundee, Dundee Utd, Killie, Hearts (for slightly different reasons), Hibs etc. So even those extra resources don't guarantee league safety, never mind better performances.

How many golf tournaments had Butch Harmon won when we was coaching Tiger Woods to multiple victories in the Majors?

From a Macron perspective I imagine the number shifted is pretty much the same whether they sell it in June or August. From a logistics perspective it probably makes little financial sense to them to launch in June when they have more profitable kit to sell.

The vast majority of professional footballers aren't first team regulars. We need to find the ones that prioritise starting most weeks for a couple of seasons over being a better paid reserve team player. It's not easy, but it's certainly possible.

On the plus side, if you're not Scottish, we can pretty much guarantee any new player they'll get called up for their country.

The challenge all clubs our size have these days (and the larger ones too) is the players and their agents are playing the waiting game more and more. It's easy to say we should just put a deadline in place, but we'll always wait for the better players if there's a chance. And if we're looking for loans from England, they don't transpire until very late in the game.

There will plenty of rumours and based on prior seasons, about 90% of the new players we bring in will not have been mentioned in any of them. Also, the window doesn't close for another 3 months.

Russell had an uncanny knack of knowing where the ball was going to end up. He'd watch two players challenge each other in a tackle or header and 9 times out of 10 the ball would break to exactly where he was standing. Not bad at finding a pass either.

Not quite as interesting, but I remember the chat at the time was Cooper was Tynecastle bound. I had picked up an Evening Times to read on the train coming back from Glasgow and there was a headline about a new signing for us and I thought "I wonder if the wee man manged to sign his old Rangers mate" Probably didn't hurt that Bobby Russell was already playing for us too.

Shields, I imagine.

Always enjoyed my days (end evenings) out Shawfield - fair to say it was unique. The ball boys had a tough gig if it ended up on the track, and behind the goals was a lot of ground to cover.

If Canada go on a tear in the Copa America, Big Theo could still be on international duty when this kicks off.

Would have been fun if Clyde still played at Shawfield, but New Douglas Park isn't too exciting. Decent mix of teams that we'll no doubt play well/struggle against at different periods of our pre-season regime, and then qualify for the next round regardless.

I doubt we'll be involved in the League One play-off.

Exactly the kind of glamour tie the fans were hoping for.