Player Suggestion Souttar played and scored last night

[Pedro Verde]

Souttar isn't old, isn't famous, and most importantly hasn't played for Leeds. Obviously a false rumour.

But he has been injured a bit

 

[Matlock Blade]

Joking aside, I would like us to sign Souttar. Still need at least one new striker too though.

 

[itsinyerblood]

Souttar would need someone agile and equally brave alongside him.

 

[Superblades]

Contact at Leicester reckons he’s coming for £3m this window. Just waiting on my source to give more background. He messaged me this morning out of the blue that it’s happening.

If he has a good World Cup then he will have better offers out there.

 

[Groucho Blade]

It's certainly a strong spine if they are all fit and firing. Assuming Hamer and Peck are sold:

COOPER
WALKER - SOUTTAR - LCB
SERIKI - PHILLIPS - CM - BURROWS
BROOKS - O'HARE
BAMFORD
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The spot next to Phillips needs to be an athletic player capabale of the box-to-box role.

If we are going 3 at the back then I wouldn't be against Hjelde coming in as first choice LCB. Just trying to thing of other decent left-footed CB's - Jacob Greaves, Cameron Burgess, Matt Clarke, Aaron Cresswell (old), Callum Doyle, Eiran Cashin - there's not a massive pool of talent out there

We’d have to sell first to be able to buy any of those on that list…in the meantime there’s RND

 

[ekke287]

Source has confirmed about 80% trust in info. He’s close at Leicester and I don’t talk to him very often, it would be out of character to billy bullshit.

 

[SUFC Guy]

Source has confirmed about 80% trust in info. He’s close at Leicester and I don’t talk to him very often, it would be out of character to billy bullshit.

A done deal or have we not bid yet?

 

[Weasel]

A done deal or have we not bid yet?

We are probably considering a discussion about exploring the possibility of submitting an enquiry. You cant rush these things. Well not if you are SUFC, anyway.

 

[Frank the tank]

We are probably considering a discussion about exploring the possibility of submitting an enquiry. You cant rush these things. Well not if you are SUFC, anyway.

We are formulating a dossier

 

[71Blade]

We are formulating a dossier

Corrected that for you .... dosser

 

[ekke287]

A done deal or have we not bid yet?

Source is pretty confident it’s done. I asked for confidence rating and he said 8/10. We’ll see I guess but he’s not been far wrong before on other matters, especially around Leicester.

 

[SUFC Guy]

Source is pretty confident it’s done. I asked for confidence rating and he said 8/10. We’ll see I guess but he’s not been far wrong before on other matters, especially around Leicester.

Thanks mate. Fingers crossed

 

[Bladesman]

Source is pretty confident it’s done. I asked for confidence rating and he said 8/10. We’ll see I guess but he’s not been far wrong before on other matters, especially around Leicester.

Leicester do need to raise funds and I don't think he has ever been a regular for them.

I also doubt Harry wants to be playing League 1 football at this moment in his career either.

 

[Houston_Blade]

Leicester do need to raise funds and I don't think he has ever been a regular for them.

I also doubt Harry wants to be playing League 1 football at this moment in his career either.

He’s never been a regular for anybody because he’s never fit enough.

 

[Kenilworth]

He’s never been a regular for anybody because he’s never fit enough.

Stoke?

 

[Houston_Blade]

Stoke?

61 appearances between 2016 and 2023.

 

[Terry Starlight]

 

[Kelso]

Rather have his brother John from Rangers, although as a pair they might work

 

[Frank the tank]

Rather have his brother John from Rangers, although as a pair they might work

His brothers no where near Harry's level.

 

[SUFC Guy]

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Thats only 2 serious injuries in all that time. Unlucky, but not a jinx imo

 

[Bladesman]

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He seems a bit over qualified for us when you look at the injury record.

 

[FriethBlade]

Thats only 2 serious injuries in all that time. Unlucky, but not a jinx imo

True but 2 of the worse kind ... an ACL and achilles. Hes exactly what we need but we'll be holding our breath every time he goes down if we do sign him.

 

[Houston_Blade]

True but 2 of the worse kind ... an ACL and achilles. Hes exactly what we need but we'll be holding our breath every time he goes down if we do sign him.

This.

Every time Tom Davies tackled, turned or put his hands through his hair aggressively I wondered how many games he’d be out for. Souttar would give me similar vibes.

 

[Toto]

This.

Every time Tom Davies tackled, turned or put his hands through his hair aggressively I wondered how many games he’d be out for. Souttar would give me similar vibes.

Agree, get Harry back, Kyle, Billy or just stick with what we have at least Tom still had his hair, we aint rich

 

[Pintor75]

We have to be careful of making this the be all and end all of our signings, if he gets injured we're knackered again, he had a great impact when he came in, but who's to say that someone else would/ wouldn't have had that impact at the time.

 

[Kenilworth]

We have to be careful of making this the be all and end all of our signings, if he gets injured we're knackered again, he had a great impact when he came in, but who's to say that someone else would/ wouldn't have had that impact at the time.

What? Like (early) Binden, McGutless and Tanganga?

Agree that we shouldn’t have this as the marquee signing but the lad has form with us and if he’s keen to rejoin because he’s had such a positive experience then it’s a risk worth managing.

Contrast the risk with paying £5m for McGuinness, who I have never rated and it turned out I was 100 correct. What a waste of money he’s been.

On Binden. I was a harsh critic of his to begin with as I saw nothing in him. He improved immeasurably when he got his chance in the team, later on, but he was not the sort of completely dominant presence that Souttar has been. I now believe Binden has a decent ceiling and can have a decent career in the game. He’ll need someone like Souttar next to him, mind.

 

[KMC-1889]

Like any other transfer we just need to do our due diligence and pay a fair value. Unfortunately over the last couple of years we haven’t been great at either of those.

I don’t think Souttar is particularly injury prone the same way a lot of players are, but he’s had two potentially career ending injuries. You can either see this as him being resilient (being able to recover from these) or a risk (something else may go pop). A thorough medical and training regime suited to his body would mitigate any risk but again, as a club, we’re just not set up to operate like that.

 

[Uganda Blade]

Like any other transfer we just need to do our due diligence and pay a fair value. Unfortunately over the last couple of years we haven’t been great at either of those.

I don’t think Souttar is particularly injury prone the same way a lot of players are, but he’s had two potentially career ending injuries. You can either see this as him being resilient (being able to recover from these) or a risk (something else may go pop). A thorough medical and training regime suited to his body would mitigate any risk but again, as a club, we’re just not set up to operate like that.

Asking him to give up international football would probably help, then he's not flying half way round the world every few months.

 

[ben1987]

Asking him to give up international football would probably help, then he's not flying half way round the world every few months.

He’s probably to tell us to fuck off as is right

But he tended to chuck a bit of a disaster class for us first game back after representing Aus.

 

[Keen Blade]

What annoyed me about the crocks we signed was that we had our parachute £ and should not have been fishing in that pond.

Now that we're well and truly skint , it's probably necessary for us to look at players who have a risk of injury , in order to get any kind of quality.
The ones without injury or physical deficiency are probably unaffordable.

This puts us in a bit of a Catch 22.
Just when we can't afford to waste our limited £ , we are forced by the market to take the risk of wasting it.