Hibsfan

On 26/08/2019 at 14:51, villalad21 said:

Hibernian fans must feel robbed.

What would you say McGinn is worth right now? 30-40 mill?

We do aye,  any chance of him back please?

To answer the other person asking, the consensus seems to be that we got another £1m after you got promoted,  no idea if that’s true or not though.

Also rumoured that we’ve got a sell on % if you ever decide to cash in,  I’d be amazed if we didn’t.

2 minutes ago, terrytini said:

I am 100% convinced he has access to his own private Wormhole. Nothing else can explain his ability to appear almost simultaneously in every different part of the pitch, and for 90 minutes.

Amongst his goal, the incredible ball winning, and the energy, what about a couple of those passes ?? Wow.

Stop it,  you’re making me cry here 

15 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

Thanks. We really will be urging our club for a friendly with you guys come pre season 

That’d be class and would be very popular amongst our support too.

Pre match chat in the pub before our game today started on SJM during the week and evolved to chat from the older boys about Cropley and Des Bremner (they weren’t happy I compared SJM to Cropley), anyway there’s closer links between the clubs than i realised,  would be excellent if something in the summer could be arranged.

15 minutes ago, Keyblade said:

Can't believe he's only cost about 3m. How does a player this good fly under the radar like that?

His link up play with Grealish in the second half was just sublime. Shame Jack wasn't on the top of his game today.

Been monitoring his progress with interest and not wanting to bore you all too much with my thoughts on him but this seems an opportune moment to remind people that Celtic were trying to get him for £1.5m and have taken an almighty hump since then as we wanted to hold out for more.  

Enjoying seeing you guys making a late move for the play off places,  hope you manage to keep it going although SJM making a £30m move somewhere in the summer might just work in our favour  

Thanks for the replies folks.

its now being suggested on our forum that it’s Corey Blackett-Taylor.

Interesting to see how it pans out if he does sign.

cheers

19 minutes ago, rodders0223 said:

Rushian Hepburn Murphy maybe, quick skillful striker but a criminal lack of first team football at his age.

Interesting, cheers.

not much online about him so just a case of wait and see I suppose.

Hi folks,

Sorry to be a pest and not sure if this thread or your development side thread would be the best place for this question but it’s been mentioned Hibs could be signing a player on loan from Villa this window (not Ross McCormack).  We have spoken about needing new forwards and quick wingers,  anyone got any idea who it would likely be?

cheers

5 minutes ago, LakotaDakota said:

I know, I quite like Hawksbee & Jacobs but they tend to be more of a comedy show than anything serious, Just makes a change for most of them including muppets like Adrian Durham saying that  amove to Villa in the championship would be a good move for someone with Rogers CV and current job rather than just crying because we sacked Bruce

I'm having a wee laugh as there was a thread on hibs.net a while back about talksport and the consensus was exactly that.  Hawksbee and Jacobs are good but the rest of them are clowns that just like to create controversy. 

Adrian Durham every night used to practically encourage pressure on managers by pointing out poor records,  better alternatives etc..... then he'd turn round and say it was shocking they were getting put under pressure.

I think Villa would be a good move for Rodgers as well though,  he's achieved all he is likely to at Celtic and it's obviously not all great behind the scenes there (probably not helped by a certain John Mcginn),  he's probably unlikely to get a Premiership job again as he's not Portuguese so a top end Championship club is likely to be his best route back into Premiership football.   (I realise what i'm saying is similar to what Talksport were saying but i'm allowed to say that as i actually watch Scottish football)

16 minutes ago, LakotaDakota said:

Have has a bit of talksport on the past couple of afternoons and they all seem remarkably positive on Rodgers, basically saying he would almost be daft not to come as it must be boring as shit at Celtic, It's starting to go a bit wrong after winning 99% of games over the past couple of years and we have loads of money, a good chance of promotion and some serious ambition.

I wouldn't give too much credibility to anything Talksport say when it comes to Scottish football or anything they say about it.

They've always been pretty ignorant about it and i doubt very much if they've got their finger on the pulse when it comes to what Rodgers is thinking.

FWIW i think he'd be a good appointment for you.

I know you'll want someone higher profile however you could do a lot worse than considering Neil Lennon.

Wouldn't be a fashionable appointment but there's a lot more to him than his public perception,  I've been really surprised by him.  I wouldn't pay too much attention to his time at Bolton as that sounds like it was a complete car crash of a club at the time.

Anyway,  I hope you don't go after him,  just thought i'd throw his hat into the ring........ 

I’m hoping we’ve got an additional £5m for every ‘volley in the top corner from outside the box bonus’ as part of the transfer fee.

Certainly kept that in his locker when he was playing for us!

1 minute ago, av1 said:

£1.5m is an absolute joke of an offer. We had the same with Spurs and Jack this season. Yes the fee mentioned were much bigger, but its still the same thing, big clubs trying fleece smaller clubs of their best assets for peanuts. 

It's why a hate the game sometimes, but then i guess everyone does it. We've done it to you (no disrespect), and with the money we gave you you'll probably go and nick tbe best player of a club of a smaller stature of your own. It hurts, but i guess thats football. 

Out of interest, and excuse my ignorance of Scottish football, what does £2.7m represent to yourselves? Is it sufficient to bring in 1 or 2 replacements?

If it is £2.7m then it will help but it won’t go that far tbh.

We would have to give 33% of that to St Mirren (I can’t be bothered doing the maths), we also need to build an indoor training facility as part of a project to improve Scottish football (project brave),  that’s going to cost around £1m.

The remaining money will help increase our maximum wage a bit but we probably still won’t be able to buy a player for decent money,  any player costing anything more than a couple hundred grand would want wages we can’t afford or couldn’t sustain once the transfer money goes.

It’s a bit rubbish but I’m alright with it,  I like the fact we’re bringing through young players in Scotland now and I prefer that to spending fortunes on garbage that don’t care as they know they’ll be off in 6 months anyway.  I look at all the money being spent in English football and I don’t really envy your game at all,  I’m sure you’d rather be out of it but I prefer watching the English Championship to the Premiership for those reasons.

Hi folks,  

Watched last nights game and thought I’d pass on a few impartial observations of the game,  won’t bother with the voting though as not really my place to do so.

I’ll start with the biggest negative,  thought the ref was very poor.  Not just the stamp but the whole game I thought he missed loads,  he was clearly over weight as well,  not sure how the authorities expect someone like that to keep up with professional footballers?

in terms of the game itself,  your keeper had a couple of good saves but overall gave me the shits a bit,  thought he should have done better with the second goal,  he stays bigger and stronger he keeps that out.

The boy Jelinak (think that’s his name) never looked comfortable at all at the back,  believe he’s meant to be a midfielder?  That makes sense.

I’ll admit to never particularly liking Alan Hutton but I’m amazed he’s a regular at left back,  he seems quite popular on here but I’d be surprised if you don’t need better as the season progresses.

Your midfield looks good and I like Grealish, he seems a bit greedy though,  suppose that comes with the territory with that kind of player but I suspect as his career progresses that may be what he needs to iron out a bit.

The final third there seems to be a bit quality lacking,  don’t mean that in an offensive way, just all seemed a bit raw up there.  For all the possession you didn’t seem to create that much.  Hopefully your two new wingers help with that.

Anyway,  that’s my thoughts on what I saw.  Appreciate it’s just one game though so I may be talking pish.

7 minutes ago, NurembergVillan said:

My understanding was that it was £2.7m.  In which case it's an outrageous bargain.  He'd have been a steal at that fee 25 years ago.

Cheers.  Think I mentioned earlier that we were due st Mirren 33% of the fee as a development fee.  If the fee was £4m that would mean we’d have got the £2.7m you say so I wonder if we’ve accepted that and passed the responsibility of the sell on % to you to pay St Mirren (or negotiate a different deal).

I may just be clutching at straws though and tbf if it is £2.7m but with sell on or other incentives then it could still work out a good deal for us with the market being the way it is in England.

13 minutes ago, Dick said:

2.7m?

There’s been a few figures getting banded about,  we apparently valued him at £4m but we were owe St Mirren a 33% sell on fee,  if we got the £4m I think that would take our fee down to about £2.7m so i suspect that’s where that figure comes from.

St Mirren apparently confirmed the sale of SJM has meant they’ve now beaten they’re previous record sale fee which I think was £1m so the fee must have been between £3-4m

3 minutes ago, Dick said:

Feel free to stick around  

I’ll certainly be retaining an interest in how SJM and Villa do this season.

Stuck a few quid on Villa to go up as well just to add to the interest.

Just now, Wainy316 said:

Well I used to have a slight affection for Hearts due to their colours, but **** them, I'm Hibs now!

I've had a wrestle with that conundrum over the last 24 hours too but if SJM can look past the colour of your shirts i suppose i can too  

3 minutes ago, rodders0223 said:

I don't think he really qualifies as a footballer tbfh.

 

On the hibs posters, if I wasn't already excited about this transfer. I am now, cannot wait to get him signed and see him in action.

I suppose there's an element of expectations to be managed though.  A lot of very good players he's been compared to on this thread.

It's probably still a decent step up for him and the expectations of playing for a club the size of Villa may take some adjustment for him.  I'm sure you will all really take to him but there will be aspects of his game he needs to tighten up.  I've also seen it mentioned he is replacing Grealish,  from what i have seen of Grealish,  which isn't a lot tbf,  they seem like very different players.  John will offer a steeliness to the midfield and he has a lot to offer but he's not likely to be beating too many players with pieces of skill,  he's more of a powerful runner than a tricky player likely to skin defenders.  He's also got the strongest bum known to man (no, not in that way,  keep it clean at the back),  the amount of free kicks he wins due to his ability to hold people off by putting his bum out is something to behold.

When is your next game on the Tele?  Looking forward to keeping up with how he's getting on.

Jesus, i'm going to miss him.