01 Feb 2019 11:41:21
I thought I'd give a wee rating of our new transfers for people to agree, disagree, comment on or tear apart.

BAYO - First and foremost he can hopefully take some of the pressure of young Edouard, and perhaps even play with him in the way we seen with Dembele. For a young lad he demonstrated a great goal record at any level in the season gone in Slovakia. Hopefully it wasn't just a purple patch and he can step up for us. Only seen his goals reel on youtube and whilst a lot of them look like they relied on service, never underestimate a penalty box goalscorer and I'm excited to see him properly and what else he has in his locker.

WEAH - A highly rated youngster who will, from what I've seen so far add some much needed freshness and quality to the attack. I'm assuming we have next to no chance of signing him permanently so that takes a bit of the shine off but nonetheless should be an enjoyable player to watch.

BURKE - Pretty much the same as above really but I'd say with a slightly better, next to next to no chance, of a permanent deal.

TOLJAN - Well after all the talk of a RB we finally got one over the line at the last. Thank funk for that. Imagine the scenes if we hadn't. He's got pedigree. Represented Germany at various youth levels an looked a right prospect at Hoffenheim. Hence the move to Dortmund. Didn't quite work out for him there but what does it go? One swallow doth not a summer make? Basically, one poor season doesn't make him a poor player. Get him back on track and we could have a player on our hands. Conflicting reports about whether we have a permanent deal already negotiated but there's time to worry about that.

SHVED - not going to bother going into how a manager and recruitment team work. But this is actually the signing I'm most excited about. Let's wait until the summer thpugh and see if we get a better view of him in preseason.

OVERALL - pretty happy. Always think we could have done a bit more but sadly I think a lot of poor signings from previous windows have bloated our squad and wage bill. Not to mention january is always more difficult to get players in, never mind come to Scotland. Castagne would have been a quality signing by the way. Finally, well done Ed and Rich T for keeping the pages ticking over. Now let's get back to the football, crack on with a Treble Treble and dare to dream in Europe. COYBIG.


1.) 01 Feb 2019
01 Feb 2019 11:57:52
Jim av read this morn there is an option to buy with the young german.


2.) 01 Feb 2019
01 Feb 2019 12:44:16
Agree Jim, particularly with shaved.


3.) 01 Feb 2019
01 Feb 2019 13:26:32
Nice one Mally 👍.

YNB, only youtube admittedly but he looks a cracking player.


4.) 02 Feb 2019
02 Feb 2019 01:12:58
The good thing is that at this stage at least we are all very happy with 5 of our signings . I think we really don't have a notion about the two Americans, they seem to be more long shots, but I might be surprised and next year we may be all excited about them.