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Obviously we have to give him a chance and call it at the end of the season, but it would make for a poor forum not to give opinion prior to that. I don't think he is technically a better player than Clarkson, he's a little bit more athletic. This should have been the season we challenged Clarkson to up his yardage in games and become more of an all rounder, which he's shown plenty of signs that he's capable and willing. That needed game time, which Thelin is no longer willing to give. If we can't turn a player like Clarkson into at least a £1.5M player, then I have my doubts we're going to get more out of Aouchiche. Realistically, we'd need to be getting £3M return to make the wages outlay worth it. I just don't think that there is a £3M player (Lewis Ferguson, basically) there. He's not got the physical attributes to make it an obvious buy for, say, an Italian club. He'd be the type of punt Lecce took on Ramadani, which would land us <£2M, covering the cost of purchase and additional wages probably. The only reasons I could see is taking up the offer is if we've suddenly decided to up our spending more generally, or we've already had agreement to buy for £2M from another club, and we're basically using our leverage in the agreed fee. None of this is criticism of the player himself, just the high cost of his signing. Our player trading model shouldn't really be being used for this type of signing. It defies logic a bit.

I like him, but would be uncomfortable paying anything over half that

Again, what’s with the public asset bashing? He needs to stop denigrating public amenities, just because you don’t have to pay to use it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t add value to a city, that’s just conservative churchy bullshit. The two things can and need to coexist for anywhere to be successful.

Jimmy Thelin on the transfer window:- “We have a clear idea of what we want to do – as little as possible, but strengthen the squad.” It will be “super-good impact” they target in January. He adds: “We have a good squad, but we need to adjust some parts.”

Scottish flu has a gestation period of 28 years, followed by symptoms lasting anywhere from 3 to 8 games.

Love the Old Fruitmarket as a venue.

Nae trousers? I'm really warming to the lad.

Just don't read it. I don't know who she is. I have a vague idea, I think, but could be way wrong and feel that looking her up would put me in a worse position than not knowing who she is. I do like her name though, it feels like it should be a rhyming slang, or a euphemism for a sex act.

That's true. If both Lazetic and Nisbet get injured, we'll rue the day we let Yengi and Ambrose go.

It may surprise you after our chat on the St Mirren thread but overall I agree with this, the technology isn't there yet and especially for leagues that are having to go down the back of the couch for shrapnel to just be able to afford the most basic system. That's not to say I don't think they help themselves with the way they operate it but I don't think VAR can ever be a 'good' thing until technology gets to a stage where the referee is literally an AI able to make 100% accurate decisions in milli-seconds. Whether not having a human refereeing team on the pitch at all is desireable however is another debate

Old warrior dozes off, misses AGM. A boardroom coup to seize power on behalf of the Sooth Stand Socialist Collective will therefore be delayed for another 12 months and, concomitantly, the timescale of the intended free matchday issue of the People’s Skirlie, the unilateral ban on VAR within a hunner km of Pittodrie, and the installation of a mass shower system over the away support section - fed by the Pittodrie urinals - will be affected negatively. Our mission, however, will not be denied, diluted, or thwarted. No faith have we in prince or peer.

Up next is a bunch of Alsacians They come from a frog eating nation Theyll say 'zut alors' When we knock in number 4 As we rise once again to the occasion

Next up is a team that's from France I'm thinking we're in with a chance If the team are on song And they don't do owt wrong We'll be having a song and a dance