2024/25 Squad and Transfers

[Guest capitanus]

A good reliable Serbian hitman is what we need.

I've a good feeling about this one.

[GM2020]

https://x.com/HYFPRW/status/1800200933756076272
 

Came across this - won goal of the season last season.

[Jamie_M]

Incoming

 

[Jamie_M]

[Scott]

Nathan Shaw must be out longer than expected. We have a pile of forward players now. 

[RossMcC1874]

Don't really remember much of him at Inverness other than he was rapid but good experience at the level. Another out and out striker which is good and short term deal fairly low risk. 

 

[irnbru]

Doubt we'll see much of Davies or Reynolds now. 

Him, McGinn, Garrity and Stuparevic all ahead of them. 

[Chicken_Soup]

Don’t remember much of Samuels at Inverness other than him being really quick. That is something we’ve lacked since Quitongo left so this adds more variety to our attack at least. Hopefully get a better look at him tonight.

[Madton]

23 minutes ago, Scott said:

Nathan Shaw must be out longer than expected. We have a pile of forward players now. 

Imrie was saying last week he's back training unless he's had another setback.

[TRVMP]

Hard to see Davies kicking a ball between now and January. Reynolds, after a disastrous start, has just about found his feet, but Davies is nowhere to be found. Either way, good to see someone with some Championship experience.

[Jamie_M]

Dougie definitely still so seething about (allegedly) wanting the Caley job and (allegedly) not getting it that he's piecing together as much as he can of that Caley squad that got relegated to show what tune he'd have got out of it.

[dunning1874]

Undeniable that we look much healthier for centre forwards with this signing. Samuels is undoubtedly a more credible alternative to Stuparevic than any other options on paper.

The imbalance in the squad now is pretty wild though, we've gone full Hopkin. Options in the front four:

Stuparevic, Samuels, Reynolds, Davies, McGinn, Garrity, Moffat, Crawford, Shaw, Lyall (and arguably King depending where you see his best position being)

Options at full back:

Ballantyne, Delaney, Wilson (which would mean removing our best midfielder from the midfield), Blues (not a full back), King (not a full back though he was good last night).

Sadly an injury to Wilson is probably going to happen at some point looking at his career to date. If you then lose one of Ballantyne or Delaney while he's out you're suddenly looking a bit threadbare. We managed fine with Wilson and Delaney missing from the starting XI last night, but it's a concern.

[Chicken_Soup]

5 hours ago, dunning1874 said:

Undeniable that we look much healthier for centre forwards with this signing. Samuels is undoubtedly a more credible alternative to Stuparevic than any other options on paper.

The imbalance in the squad now is pretty wild though, we've gone full Hopkin. Options in the front four:

Stuparevic, Samuels, Reynolds, Davies, McGinn, Garrity, Moffat, Crawford, Shaw, Lyall (and arguably King depending where you see his best position being)

Options at full back:

Ballantyne, Delaney, Wilson (which would mean removing our best midfielder from the midfield), Blues (not a full back), King (not a full back though he was good last night).

Sadly an injury to Wilson is probably going to happen at some point looking at his career to date. If you then lose one of Ballantyne or Delaney while he's out you're suddenly looking a bit threadbare. We managed fine with Wilson and Delaney missing from the starting XI last night, but it's a concern.

With Lyall nailing down the deeper role, and O’Boy omitted from that list, it’s basically 10 players competing for the 4 attacking positions. Strong competition.

At left back, aside from Delaney, King and Ballantyne, we also have Boyes who can play there with 3 other centre backs in the squad. Right back is the only position I’d argue we don’t have sufficient cover, unless Corr can play there. We’ve seen O’Connor and McEntee played there out of necessity in recent years so if anything happens to Ballantyne, he might have to.

[Mr.Blue]

I'd absolutely love us to get Grimmys back as the final piece of the jigsaw. He'd slot into the midfield alongside Shug and would be a great addition. He'd also give us some cover at fullback.

[Hands of Cowan]

1 hour ago, Mr.Blue said:

I'd absolutely love us to get Grimmys back as the final piece of the jigsaw. He'd slot into the midfield alongside Shug and would be a great addition. He'd also give us some cover at fullback.

Could start a crowd funding page to support his wages for the season 

[TRVMP]

1 hour ago, Hands of Cowan said:

Could start a crowd funding page to support his wages for the season 

No thanks. 

[BishopBrennan]

9 hours ago, Hands of Cowan said:

Could start a crowd funding page to support his wages for the season 

How do you think MCT's money is raised? 

[vikingTON]

On 5/19/2024 at 12:39 AM, vikingTON said:

There's a fair amount of that which would have benefited from a benevolent redraft option before publication tbh. 

[quote] the minerals required to be a Greenock Morton FC player. [/quote]

The entire second half of the interview does seem like a response to Strapp's departure IMO but it is completely unrealistic. There's no way that we can magically determine match fitness for the subsequent year and award contracts on that basis alone. 

Bump.

Taking stock at the end of our first quarter of games today, we have the following players completely missing from the squad with various issues. This is excluding one-off disappearances too:

GK: Mullen

2 CBs: Boyes; Corr

???: Shaw (Nathan, apparently)

We are also managing Wilson's minutes each week like we're shipping a priceless Ming vase, while Gillespie's continued lack of game time suggests a possible issue there too.

[sarcasm] It's just as well our 'minerals' based recruitment strategy was in place then or else we'd be fielding a makeshift and badly weakened team right now. [/sarcasm]

[Jamie_M]

[Scott]

Really hope this is just back up for Woods…