27 Aug 2026 20:25:43
That will be the end of many players coming in 🇬🇧
27 Aug 2026 20:56:57
No, it won't.
27 Aug 2026 20:57:44
We need a new manager and coaching staff mate.
27 Aug 2026 21:06:35
We're already 50mil down on a stinking squad, not sure it makes any difference tbh.
27 Aug 2026 21:22:03
With this turn over in players, it was always likely going to take time to gel, but, wow, I never expected us to be this bad.
That performance was shambolic.
I would imagine this would have a big impact on any late transfers or at least the standard of them.
We seemed lost, lacked aggression and just didn't seem up for what was a really important game.
27 Aug 2026 21:22:57
I agree, Rez, I think DM is out of his depth and I'll admit if I'm wrong, but the teams all over the place.
Doesn't seem like he knows what he's doing.
27 Aug 2026 21:23:28
We should sell the high value players and bring some less expensive experience.
27 Aug 2026 21:23:59
I also hope the financial outlay we've hit, including Minsu and Kelsey, doesn't start to come back to bite us. We're in silly money figures spent for our club, and there is nothing on the horizon in way of Europe, probably not getting anywhere near the league title, and will most likely have a stinking cup run.
Raskin still here and Manny playing like a Sunday league substitute has stalled all this apart mega millions we were getting for them.
Nearly 70 mil spent. Worrying.
27 Aug 2026 21:27:45
Over 70mil actually, when you include Minsu and Kelsey, crazy.
27 Aug 2026 21:40:25
Absolutely won't, just means next season will be sell to buy. I highly doubt the club will have hinged important business on tonight's game. The books will look crap, agreed, but I suspect the club's plans will proceed, as we are too far down the window and too much in the rubbish for them to stop.
27 Aug 2026 21:41:57
I think Del is a manager not a coach, his staff are simply not good enough and he should pay the price for that. I have not seen one player improve. I was willing to give him a chance, but that looked like a pre season kick about wtf.
27 Aug 2026 21:44:36
Can anyone answer why this squad look so physically unfit?
Think the last time our team looked fit was under Gerrard and then Gio. We played a few games into extra time then and always looked the fittest.
What do they cover in training, because they don't look fit, no tactical know how, and look like complete strangers rather than a team.
27 Aug 2026 21:49:18
Won't have any impact.
27 Aug 2026 21:54:21
Hard for players to gel when the manager changes formation every 45 mins, as he clearly doesn't have a clue what to do. He needs to pick 1 formation. 433, and let the players form some form of connection with each other.
27 Aug 2026 21:55:55
Job's too big for him.
27 Aug 2026 21:59:22
I forced myself to listen to manager post match. Not his fault by the sound of it, but he is embarrassed, so that's something. The club is chaotic, we have people involved with football who know very little about it, possibly including the recruitment 'team'.
27 Aug 2026 22:04:44
I can't understand how rotten we are. It can't just be the manager/coaching team, and it can't just be the players, but something is very wrong and has been for a long time. It shouldn't be this difficult to do the basics, but the team seem lost and lacking in desire. This is the worst I have ever seen the team and my first memories are early Souness years.
I think McInnes needs time, but another ruined season is fast approaching if we don't get it together fast. We can't just keep sacking managers. I just hope we get it sorted before there is no other choice.
I'm scunnered like we all are, but, worst of all, I don't have a clue how it can be fixed or what has caused the rot for so long.
27 Aug 2026 22:07:01
I personally think the recruitment team are to blame. I don't think for a minute McInnes has come in and said I want Dragojevic, Yakota, Minsu and see while we're at it, I'll take the striker from Portland Timbers. It looks like the recruitment team have signed a load of players with no thought to what formation the manager will play, and that can be seen, in fact, Del has no idea what formation to play.
5 different formations tonight. Some of the players look awful. Neil is woeful, and I'm sorry, but Pandur is rotten, no way anyone with eyes could think he's an upgrade on Butland.
27 Aug 2026 22:22:13
Disagree on Pandur - the rest is fair play.
27 Aug 2026 22:23:30
This is worse than Russell Martin for me. We have brought in a full new team of players. We aren't seeing any signs of a style of play, and there are no signs one has been worked on in training. We would all get behind the team if we seen evidence of something going the right way, but we are worse than ever considering the spend.
I'm in no way saying we should get rid of Del but this is soul destroying to watch. Last year the mentality of players was questioned, but only Fernandez, Sterling, Gassama and Aasgaard that have been playing.
We have about 32 CM but none have a creative bone in their body.
We have no energy and Barron is on the bench.
We are struggling for goals and a proven goaslscorer in Miovski can't get a sniff.
We are leaking goals for fun and Souttar has been frozen out.
We apparently went out to sign leaders, yet no one is actually leading on the pitch. They all look lost and out of ideas.
This all points at Del not getting things right. The board are chucking money at things but it's not working.
27 Aug 2026 22:25:03
He may be done soon, if we get beat by Aberdeen this weekend then it's a done deal. It's no. As if we've had no money to spend either, it's sickening. We've gone backwards!
And been beat by 2 rubbish teams to get knocked out.
27 Aug 2026 22:30:52
Agreed, Kissthebadge2025, Pandur is easily the least of our worries right now. We managed 1 shot on target over 120 minutes against a pub team. Pandur at least kept us in the game and made 1 save in the shootout.
27 Aug 2026 22:42:26
Johnjo, I'm 100% with you on Pandur. He is absolutely garbage compared to JB.
27 Aug 2026 23:13:02
Butland was bloody awful last season but let's pretend he wasn't. Failed multiple times last season to make a save in a game. Souttar awful too. Miovski doesn't want to train properly, so why would he try in a game.
Turnover in players can not be an excuse, Hearts & Motherwell have had a high turnover & are playing better than us & gelling.
Time to stop blaming recruitment when the manager is constantly getting it wrong with tactics, subs & in game changes.
27 Aug 2026 23:41:39
Pandur looks like he's going to concede at least 1 goal every game, is the problem though for those who think he's good. Butland made mistakes, yes, but when it came down to 90 mins of football, he never looked at any point we would automatically concede a goal.
Pandur does. The angle he's set himself at for the 3 that run straight across the box/just wide is mental.
27 Aug 2026 23:54:37
Let's attack the goalie when we had 1 attempt on target which was a tame header.
28 Aug 2026 00:07:16
Most of these team selections, formations and substitutions look like we've given Scott Brown a crayon and let him choose. Get Valdas Dambrauskas in as manager.
28 Aug 2026 01:01:49
I see the scatter gun is out again. Pandur is the least of our worries, and stop doing that thing when a player leaves that they automatically go up 5 levels. Butland was rank rotten and had the worst stats in the league for conceding goals last year.