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The owner definitely has way too much of an impact in recruitment and he's completely open with that. The likes of Tufan, Sinik & Allahyar were definitely his signings.

Acun is still immune from criticism in the eyes of many though. Not informing Doch he's been released is a ****'s trick and it's not the first time it's happened. When you preach one club, one family, but treat players like ****, it just doesn't add up. Doch was a massive part of our rebuild after relegation & our first title-winning squad, it's not like he's a youth player.

Is that true? Utterly terrible behaviour. I don't understand why clubs don't have the common courtesy to inform players ahead of the media release.
 
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Is that true? Utterly terrible behaviour. I don't understand why clubs don't have the common courtesy to inform players ahead of the media release.

Doch tweeted "it's not how he wanted to find out" but then deleted the tweet. We did it with Huddlestone too and there was that thing about not paying youth players some monies owed last summer as well.
 
The owner definitely has way too much of an impact in recruitment and he's completely open with that. The likes of Tufan, Sinik & Allahyar were definitely his signings.

Acun is still immune from criticism in the eyes of many though. Not informing Doch he's been released is a ****'s trick and it's not the first time it's happened. When you preach one club, one family, but treat players like ****, it just doesn't add up. Doch was a massive part of our rebuild after relegation & our first title-winning squad, it's not like he's a youth player.

I think it is more to do with many just being diplomatic, owners can soon get pissed off if fans start criticising them, (Massive being a prime example), so I think many just say nothing or show support, as on the whole Acun has been a breath of fresh air after the Allam's.

But you see with Liam's sacking he has a hard nose business side to him, which in business you need, yes, he doesn't get everything right, but he gets a hell of a lot more right than wrong.
 
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I think it is more to do with many just being diplomatic, owners can soon get pissed off if fans start criticising them, (Massive being a prime example), so I think many just say nothing or show support, as on the whole Acun has been a breath of fresh air after the Allam's.

But you see with Liam's sacking he has a hard nose business side to him, which in business you need, yes, he doesn't get everything right, but he gets a hell of a lot more right than wrong.

So far.
 
Ah, in his typical supercilious manner, he was adamant that neither of those two teams would collapse against their opposition in the semis. They did. His statement ended up being bollocks given the actual results and the manner in which they played. :emoticon-0100-smile:emoticon-0105-wink:
You keep playing the man rather the ball. Aren’t you a bit better than that?
 
You keep playing the man rather the ball. Aren’t you a bit better than that?

He's really not. Also not quite sure what post he's referring to. Perhaps he can quote a post where I said they wouldn't collapse. He may be referring to my response to someone that they wouldn't implode financially after this season as I certainly never commented on their second leg chances.

I've also had him on ignore for at least 5 years and yet he still can't help himself. I wouldn't have even known he was talking about me (yet again) if not for your post prompting me to check.
 
there was a newspaper link suggesting we're interested in hearts striker lawrence shankland. i went to youtube to find a video of his goals and found the number of penalties he scored a bit on the high side. i've since been through his hearts career to see whether that was typical.

in 2022-23 he scored 28 goals including 12 penalties. have we ever had 12 penalties in a season? i doubt it.

this season he has scored 32 including a more reasonable 5 penalties.

in the past, he scored 63 goals in 2 seasons at ayr and 40 in 2 seasons at dundee united.

he has played and scored for scotland.
I would have thought that scoring penalties would be a plus.