Transfer Window

[Pele_Is_God]

Riordan back at hibs. 4 hours to go oooohhhhhhhh

[MissICT]

no Inverness news!

[TSTtiger]

this transfer window is quite entertaining tonight down in englandshire at least. berbatov heading to united , city and arsenal depending on who you believe and owen rumoured to be off to spurs and robinho to man city !

[ymip]

Mr. Bannerman just on Radio Scotland suggesting no further signings at Le Stade.

Also a suggestion that Leeds United came in late for Don Cowie but couldn't get the deal together. Possibility that they'll be back in for Chipper in January.

[kencar]

There will be no Caley Thistle signings. Tried and failed to get 2 different central defenders - one was asking for too much in wages the other we couldn't afford.

More worrying is Leeds United are after Don Cowie. Unlikely to be a deal done now but they'll be back in January and there is nothing we can do!!

Edited September 1, 2008 by kencar

[TSTtiger]

There will be no Caley Thistle signings. Tried and failed to get 2 different central defenders - one was asking for too much in wages the other we couldn't afford.

More worrying is Leeds United are after Don Cowie. Unlikely to be a deal done now but they'll be back in January and there is nothing we can do!!

:thumb04:

if he goes i'd prefer it wasn't to one of our rivals at least but no feckin money for him. two year deal :018:

[kencar]

Apparently we enquired about McPake at Livingston and were quoted ?200,000!!!!

This is a player we looked at a couple of years ago and deemed him not good enough

[ymip]

Radio Scotland suggesting we went in strong for Dave MacKay today but Livi were looking for ?200k!

The Italians clearly on the peroni early doors today.....

Pretty sure BillLeckie said MacKay rather than McPake but Livi site states they knocked back bids for McPake today.

I struggle to see even the mad italians quoting ?200k for MacKay.

[kencar]

Allan Preston corrected Leckie telling him it was McPake not Mackay

[Yngwie]

Tried and failed to get 2 different central defenders - one was asking for too much in wages the other we couldn't afford.

OK, the 2nd one is McPake, but any ideas on the first one? Are they referring to Dods?

[kencar]

No idea but I doubt it was Dods as that was dead in the water last week. Whoever it was must have been the one who wanted too much in terms of wages.

[ymip]

Think the wages issue was probably Bamba. Small mercies I would suggest.

Radio Scotland made good point re MaKalamity and Bamba bombscare dream ticket at Easter Road.

McPake would have been a decent signing. Hope he enjoys Dingwall in December.

[SMEE]

Bamba signed for 100 000, so dont think we were ever gonna get him

[kencar]

According to the P & J online the other player was McCracken

LINK

The interesting parts of the article are....

Caley Thistle last night failed with an Inverness club record bid to sign Livingston captain James McPake.

Inverness were ready to pay ?100,000 for the 24-year-old but the West Lothian club demanded ?250,000 for the player who will be out of contract in the summer.

and

Caley Jags also made an inquiry about Wycombe Wanderers captain David McCracken, 26, but again could not afford to sign the former Dundee United central defender.

Edited September 2, 2008 by kencar

[Yngwie]

In both cases you can't blame the club for trying, and you can't blame them for walking away when the financial demands were too high.

The recent performances of McGuire and Duff leave me less pessimistic about our defence than at the start of the season, but we still haven't replaced Dods.

[Guest birdog]

McCrackin dismisses speculation.

Hardly.

"It would need to go through the club first and if it was a good enough offer and suited my family's situation then I'd have to take a look at it."

Not my words, just quoting the Sky headline.

EDIT- You will also see that he is quoted as saying

"I think I'd like to move back up to Scotland towards the end of my career, but I'm not really bothered about going back at the moment I'd prefer to stay down here a few years yet and that would probably be the aim, to move back up to Scotland towards the tail end of my career and settle up there."

which sounds like a dismissal to me. It's easy to misquote people and change the entire view of a story.

[AJS]

I have sympathy for Brewster as he was told there would be money to spend in the summer although the only player actually bought for a fee was Rooney.

McPake...or MacKay for that matter would be excellent signings although come January a pre-contract would be a terrific peice of buisness should we still want McPake and he want to come here.

The fact that teams either side of the border are now touting over Cowie suggests to me it's going to be very hard to keep him.

I think we can prepare ourselves for more transfer activity here come new year.

[CELTIC1CALEY3]

This should send a fantastic message to the squad that it's up to them and basically they have started extremely well - so far.

Does anyone have an update on Markuss's rehabilitation - November return?

[dead_ball_specialist]

It wasn't that long ago Livi were stealing our best players, nice to see the tables turned on them. I'd rather not see us splashing the cash, prudence has always been the ICT way. Sutherland, Vigurs and Duff alreadly look like capable additions to the first team squad.

[Kingsmills]

I'm not convinced that McPake is any better than the defenders we already have on the books.

[CaleyD]

Perhaps not, but with the early injuries it might have been wise to bolster the numbers a little and you'd fancy him to be able to do a job for us.

Also, had I been Brewster I would have asked the club to stick an "unexpected" bid in for Dods last night. If Utd had an eye on someone and were after a few quid from somewhere to make it possible then it might have paid off.

Que Sera

[Alex MacLeod]

I have sympathy for Brewster as he was told there would be money to spend in the summer although the only player actually bought for a fee was Rooney.

McPake...or MacKay for that matter would be excellent signings although come January a pre-contract would be a terrific peice of buisness should we still want McPake and he want to come here.

The fact that teams either side of the border are now touting over Cowie suggests to me it's going to be very hard to keep him.

I think we can prepare ourselves for more transfer activity here come new year.

Apart from P&B where is the source of all the rumours about Cowie.

[kencar]

The Leeds interest in Cowie was mentioned on the Radio Scotland tarnsfer news programme last night

[MissICT]

Just give cowie a decent contract and he will stay!

[Council Juice]

At least it appears the club bid ?100k for a player (McPake) we can talk to in January with a view to signing next summer for nothing (he is over 23 yeah?) Shows some ambition i'd say. Touch disappointed not to sign a defender but we have 3 natural central defenders in Munro Maguire and Duff and Hastings, Proctor and even Tokely at a push can play there. Plus i'd like to think we could recall Guy Kerr who i also believe can play there.

Hey, if we were that desperate Black or Duncan would probably step back! Im not too worried.

Altho here's a question. Anyone have a scooby how the Daily Record rates Maguire as our best player every week?