Summer '24 transfer window

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Peterleeyacker said:
This has been said hundreds of times and I'm sorry for repeating it. The lack of action to get us a striker in, is incompetent and a massive misjudgement. The frustration with this will be there to be seen on Sunday if we struggle. I believe speakman thinks all is well but we really should have moved on from Mendy weeks ago.
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You have no idea what action is going on behind the scenes.
 
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Frazier the Lion said:
The main issue is that the strikers we bought all came in to complement and support a main option in one way or another. This was by design as we were still trying to retain Stewart at the time. Alongside their overall performance since, it means that all three are still waiting for that ‘main’ option to come in.
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I'm not sure about that. I think Rusyn was signed to be a senior striker
 
Peterleeyacker said:
I personally think people will get behind them at first but it can change really quickly
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Well it shouldnt change really quickly in the 1st home game of the season

I got it more last season when it was poor result n performance evwry week and there was no attacking intent on display. What i dont get is showing frustration at the 1st home game of the season, we go to support the team n the players on the pitch - thats what we should be doing on Sunday

I know the majority will be right behind the team from start to finish on Sunday
 
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Peterleeyacker said:
I've always enjoyed going to the games, win, lose or draw but last season was hard. If it wasn't for my bairns having season tickets I think I would have gone sooner. My 2 lads go with their mates now (which is how it should be) and my daughter will be going to Uni next year.
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Tbh that sounds as much about overall life priorities as anything else. Objectively last season was nowhere near ones we’ve lived through in the past. Think it’s just one of those things. As I crest the hill and approach the downward bit of my life ( :emoticon-0102-bigsm ) I find myself less bothered by our failures as a club and comfortable in knowing both what we are - and more critically what modern football will allow us to be. It’s why I am more interested in watching what my club can do in developing young players and why I have no desire for an owner to spend money the club can’t afford on transfers. I know it’s very much a minority position but I find some joy in safc where I can!
 
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Rocky said:
I'm not sure about that. I think Rusyn was signed to be a senior striker
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Nah not for me. He’s an attempt to get a Broadhead type who can cover multiple roles. It’s a player that Speakman always seems to want in his squads. Makes sense to me as an aim - albeit the execution has been off. Rusyn looks every bit a winger to me. Indeed the best he’s done this summer was that 20 mins played out wide in preseason. He’s one that I really want to work out, but with the other players we have I just don’t see a path to him getting (or deserving) the minutes he needs.
 
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Frazier the Lion said:
Nah not for me. He’s an attempt to get a Broadhead type who can cover multiple roles. It’s a player that Speakman always seems to want in his squads. Makes sense to me as an aim - albeit the execution has been off. Rusyn looks every bit a winger to me. Indeed the best he’s done this summer was that 20 mins played out wide in preseason. He’s one that I really want to work out, but with the other players we have I just don’t see a path to him getting (or deserving) the minutes he needs.
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Given Speakmans comments I'm convinced Rusyn was signed to be a senior striker
 
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Rocky said:
Given Speakmans comments I'm convinced Rusyn was signed to be a senior striker
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Defo a senior forward, but not exclusively a line leader I don’t think. A different type of profile to the main man. A player they thought could hedge against RS leaving but also one who could support and exist alongside him if we’d got him to stay.
 
Frazier the Lion said:
Nah not for me. He’s an attempt to get a Broadhead type who can cover multiple roles. It’s a player that Speakman always seems to want in his squads. Makes sense to me as an aim - albeit the execution has been off. Rusyn looks every bit a winger to me. Indeed the best he’s done this summer was that 20 mins played out wide in preseason. He’s one that I really want to work out, but with the other players we have I just don’t see a path to him getting (or deserving) the minutes he needs.
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Agreed. That's Speakman MO. He lives for a wide forward. Nearly all his forward signings are in the same mould. The only one who isn't is Hemir. People say Ross Stewart but it was Johnson who pushed for that signing. He was all in on him and made sure it happened.

Even in STID Speakman was taking about Stewart as a wide forward!

All other signings have been wide forwards. He has spoken at fan events before about the death of the number 9 etc. His Achilles heel.
 
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Comfy said:
I don't think he'll fancy another stint in London, he resurrected his career when he moved back up to us. I personally don't think he'll go this year.
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Said this in june
I'm bumping this as with the news coming out this morning it looks like I actually know what I'm talking about. Too mucking fuch me like
 
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Frazier the Lion said:
Defo a senior forward, but not exclusively a line leader I don’t think. A different type of profile to the main man. A player they thought could hedge against RS leaving but also one who could support and exist alongside him if we’d got him to stay.
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I'm convinced Rusyn was signed a an option to replace Clarke,if he was moved on. Coming in off the left onto his right foot seems likely to me. There's no way,from what I've seen,that he's a striker.
 
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Frazier the Lion said:
Tbh that sounds as much about overall life priorities as anything else. Objectively last season was nowhere near ones we’ve lived through in the past. Think it’s just one of those things. As I crest the hill and approach the downward bit of my life ( :emoticon-0102-bigsm ) I find myself less bothered by our failures as a club and comfortable in knowing both what we are - and more critically what modern football will allow us to be. It’s why I am more interested in watching what my club can do in developing young players and why I have no desire for an owner to spend money the club can’t afford on transfers. I know it’s very much a minority position but I find some joy in safc where I can!
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We're so close to having a good team that competes. The Tony Mowbray season gave us a high but it came crashing back down. The potential is there to be seen. I feel like I'm talking in clichés now. I'll leave it now, just frustrated and I'm off to Monaco
 
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Frazier the Lion said:
Defo a senior forward, but not exclusively a line leader I don’t think. A different type of profile to the main man. A player they thought could hedge against RS leaving but also one who could support and exist alongside him if we’d got him to stay.
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I think they knew Stewart would leave tbh mate. Last summer's business was tragic barring Jobe, not one of them ready to step into the 1st team.
 
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Prehab26 said:
Agreed. That's Speakman MO. He lives for a wide forward. Nearly all his forward signings are in the same mould. The only one who isn't is Hemir. People say Ross Stewart but it was Johnson who pushed for that signing. He was all in on him and made sure it happened.

Even in STID Speakman was taking about Stewart as a wide forward!

All other signings have been wide forwards. He has spoken at fan events before about the death of the number 9 etc. His Achilles heel.
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I’ll be clear, I don’t think he’s particularly wrong in that. My guess is that his ‘ideal’ is Klopp’s Liverpool - who at their best were a strikerless team. Arteta’s Arsenal and many iterations of title winning City teams were the same. Then you look at the top scorers from the champ last season. Not for a second saying that the execution has been bang on, but the idea itself is far more credible than SAFC fans are willing to admit. An interchangeable, fluid front three rather than pigeonholed wingers and an orthodox big man sounds like a better thing to aim for in my view.
 
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Prehab26 said:
That's also Mundle though and Mundle looks much more like the standard. Rusyn has been a massive disappointment. Nothing like the reports we heard previously.
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Agree,he has been a disappointment...Mundle,I think,has more potential.
 
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