11 Jul 2018 12:15:09
Morning Ed, wondering if you know the latest re. McGinn? wasn't a fan of him before, but he would do a job for us. Thx.

{Ed007's Note - Everything's in place except an agreement with Hibs, McGinn's agent has agreed terms with Celtic and once the fee's agreed it should be finalised pretty
quickly.
With regards to Scott Allan joining Hibs as part of any deal for McGinn, Hibs want Allan and he wants to return there but his current wages are a bit of problem for Hibs. It could be that once McGinn is signed Celtic will pay off the last year of Allan's contract freeing him to sign up at Easter Road.}

1.) 11 Jul 2018
11 Jul 2018 14:21:00
That's good news Ed.

2.) 11 Jul 2018
11 Jul 2018 18:35:57
Forgive my ignorance of player negotiations but could we not just pay the difference to Scott Allan for the year left on his contract i. e if he's on 9k a week at Celtic and Hibs offer him 4K could we not pay him the 5k difference till June 2019, SA doesn't appear to have a future at Celtic but Hibs clearly rate/ want him so that surely strengthens our hands in the negotiations.

{Ed007's Note - They could do that, Man Utd subsidised Rooney's Everton wages and they are in turn subsidising his DC United wages.}