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Darren Ferguson in ABZ tonight apparently..... Hopefully he is just doing some form of Speaker gig but you just know that the sort of nostalgic shite that would turn Cormack into a tripod. Shiny toothed gimp.

Think we definitely need to look at somebody in there. Midfield is very lightweight. Can you imagine how easily the teams in Europe will cut through that? I don't think we can rely on Shinnie's energy either. There are a few decent defensive midfielders available on a free going by TransferMarkt. Hopefully we can get somebody tied up and get them up to speed during the international break.

100%. I do think we'll sign 1 or 2 but can't see them being of any real quality unfortunately. Hope to be proved wrong and I'd really like us to get Baccus. Someone said elsewhere that we've got a player that's agreed to come in but the selling club are waiting to confirm their replacement before letting him go. Take note Aberdeen!!

I personally feel that if we stick with the 3 at the back it'll be Robson's death knell at AFC. He won't survive playing that. Robson deserves a lot of credit for getting us 3rd last season but let's not forget that performances in the main weren't great. Rangers and Hearts at home the exceptions. We were lucky to win a lot of those games. And then there was the Hearts debacle. I'd love to see Robson turn it around but 2 wins in the last 11 games isn't great. I've got big doubts. He's a student of McInnes. It's obviously where the stubbornness has come from .

The sooner this back 3 experiment is binned the fucking better. f**k knows who we'll sign today but it has to be, for me, minimum 2 players who walk into our starting lineup. 1 being a defensive midfielder and I'd actually be looking at bringing in another defender because our centre backs are all slow as f**k. And to top it off...Williams is the slowest of them all so no point hoping he'll inject some pace.

And Ramadani would have been on more money at AFC than Baccus is on I'd wager.

He absolutely does walk into our midfield. We are losing out on Clarkson doing what he does because he's having to do the dirty work which isn't his game. A good box to box midfielder improves our team no end. I'd have loved us to go for Strain and called for us to try and sign him when we sold McCrorie but after bringing in Devlin and Dadia we won't be trying to sign him now.

That's the type of player we are missing though. We've got Clarkson to do all the creating etc. Just need somebody that can put themselves about a bit. We haven't replaced Ramadani and I personally think Baccus is an upgrade on Ramadani. I think we'll have to go to around the £500k-£600k mark though to get him.

Campbell might not be happening but there seems to be a good chance that Baccus is.

45 games u the Championship last season. However with Leeds, Sheffield Wednesday and WBA all apparently after him and on a permanent rather than the loan we'd want then it's hard to imagine in what situation he pitches up here.

There's definitely something off with the Williams situation. I've seen rumours of his attitude being an issue. If that is the case I'm surprised we haven't binned him already. We must be able to cancel it if we have concerns regarding that. Even if we did, I can't see Pollock becoming available. Is he not their only backup centre half? I'd be happy if we can get 2 midfielders in. I just don't see it. I don't think Robson/Cormack will want to write off Polvara.

Whats the script with Williams? Seems strange that he played 90 mins for a B side a couple of weeks ago but hasn't been since in any match day squads? I think if we were to bring in a centre back we'd have to ship out Stewart and probably Milne on loan aswell.

We need one midfielder. Can't think of what position the 2nd potential player might be. Unless we have plans to move out Polvara and Barron and get 2 midfielders but can't see Barron leaving due to Uefa squad numbers. Maybe a utility player that can cover numerous positions?

If any Dons fans know of 2 spare tickets going for tomorrow give me a shout

I don't think McGrath will start. Not even sure Jensen will start. Robson said in his pre match presser that he has to gradually build up their game time. McGrath because he's missed a full pre season and Jensen because he'll only have had 1 or 2 sessions with his new teammates. Think both will come on and play at least half an hour. Just don't think Robson will start either.