Player Suggestion Scott Twine

[CPB]

We should be really considering this to replace the void from MGW.

Yeah he's not yet played above L1 level but he's scored and assisted a considerable amount. We may even score from direct free kicks too.

At £3m he's a bit of a gamble perhaps but he's only 22 as well.
I reckon he has a good future ahead wherever he goes.

 

[LudlamBlade]

By buying him at £3m and giving him game time in the Championship, the only way we'd lose money is if he was utterly abject and clearly had his feet on backwards.

I think last season has shown that he has a fair bit of talent, whether it was in L1 or not.

Think it'd be almost impossible to lose money when buying a promising 22 yo English goalscoring midfielder for that price.

Almost impossible. Almost.

This is still Sheffield United we're talking about!

 

[Roygbiv]

Have people seen him play or are they just looking at his stats? Genuine question. Its just i've seen him 4 times and he was poor in all of them but obviously that's not enough to write him off. I have no idea if he's just had one of those seasons. I remember Josh Morris having a brilliant goalscoring season for Scunny when we went up from League One but he's at Salford now.

 

[brownblade]

Have people seen him play or are they just looking at his stats? Genuine question. Its just i've seen him 4 times and he was poor in all of them but obviously that's not enough to write him off. I have no idea if he's just had one of those seasons. I remember Josh Morris having a brilliant goalscoring season for Scunny when we went up from League One but he's at Salford now.

I'd echo this. He also moved to MK Dons after doing nothing at his previous employer, in fact they'd been loaning him to League 2 I think.

£3m (if true) is money we could definitely use in more efficient ways.

 

[Jan Age]

If we are trying to sell the club it’s all about getting income as high as possible and expenditure as low as possible …. You do the math

 

[Berlin Blade]

I wonder if Hull received a 3 million pound shaped package after Bowen made an appearance for England recently.

 

[Silent Blade]

Have people seen him play or are they just looking at his stats?

There are loads in here who just looks at stats rather than see them play and then all of sudden they become football experts!

 

[ThatJa]

I wonder if Hull received a 3 million pound shaped package after Bowen made an appearance for England recently.

Or just have new owners willing to invest a bit of money.

 

[LudlamBlade]

Have people seen him play or are they just looking at his stats? Genuine question. Its just i've seen him 4 times and he was poor in all of them but obviously that's not enough to write him off. I have no idea if he's just had one of those seasons. I remember Josh Morris having a brilliant goalscoring season for Scunny when we went up from League One but he's at Salford now.

I clocked onto his stats because a mate of mine who is a Dons fan was raving about him, admittedly only watched 3 games that he's been in but I've seen a few things that my mate's sent me that have got me going...











And then a bit more of his all round play...

https://youtu.be/4y2nN0PRk88

...personally I think we could do a hell of a lot worse with £3m.

 

[Slug]

However hard we try, we aren’t going to get near a like for like replacement for MGW who can match his flair, work rate and output.
Bringing someone like Twine in could hopefully help us get close to replacing his goals and assists output and then we look towards N’Diaye for the flair and work rate part.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

If you think we are spending millions without selling you haven't been paying attention to almost everything the club has said and done since the delayed 2020 summer window

 

[Deadly_D'Jaffo]

mate of mine who is a Dons fan

Have you known him more then 17/18 years?

If so, who did he support before?

(Apologies, I just have a chip on my shoulder about anyone > 30 years old who is a MK Dons fan).

 

[Inter_blade83]

Have you known him more then 17/18 years?

If so, who did he support before?

(Apologies, I just have a chip on my shoulder about anyone > 30 years old who is a MK Dons fan).

Maybe its his local team, and previously was more into Man Utd etc since there was no professional local team.

We forget that some towns and cities were built after football came about, and there's plenty of lost souls in these places without any club to take pride in.

Yes we can hate them for what happened, but locals in MK should be given a bit of respect for supporting and taking pride in something that's local to them.

 

[mattbianco1]

I clocked onto his stats because a mate of mine who is a Dons fan was raving about him, admittedly only watched 3 games that he's been in but I've seen a few things that my mate's sent me that have got me going...











And then a bit more of his all round play...

https://youtu.be/4y2nN0PRk88

...personally I think we could do a hell of a lot worse with £3m.

I thought Twine was an attacking midfielder?

I've never seen him play, just going on him wearing #9 that's all, suggests he's a striker

 

[S64 Blade]

Have people seen him play or are they just looking at his stats? Genuine question. Its just i've seen him 4 times and he was poor in all of them but obviously that's not enough to write him off. I have no idea if he's just had one of those seasons. I remember Josh Morris having a brilliant goalscoring season for Scunny when we went up from League One but he's at Salford now.

I think he's been stringing a few people along.

 

[Houston_Blade]

Have people seen him play or are they just looking at his stats? Genuine question. Its just i've seen him 4 times and he was poor in all of them but obviously that's not enough to write him off. I have no idea if he's just had one of those seasons. I remember Josh Morris having a brilliant goalscoring season for Scunny when we went up from League One but he's at Salford now.

He’s the new Luke Freeman, hyped up based on not a lot.

 

[LudlamBlade]

Have you known him more then 17/18 years?

If so, who did he support before?

(Apologies, I just have a chip on my shoulder about anyone > 30 years old who is a MK Dons fan).

No apology needed! He was always "a Watford fan" because of his dad but he was never really into football because he never had a local team, but a couple of his mates started going to Dons matches and he's just stuck with it.

Had a season ticket for 4/5 years now, fair play to him!

 

[brownblade]

He’s the new Luke Freeman, hyped up based on not a lot.

Freeman had consistently been a top Championship player... pretty different. But also proof that spending millions is always a gamble.

 

[LudlamBlade]

I thought Twine was an attacking midfielder?

I've never seen him play, just going on him wearing #9 that's all, suggests he's a striker

I think he'd fit more as an attacking midfielder in our squad but it seems to be a case of "he's way too good for this level so let's chuck him up top" and also because Dons don't really have anyone else.

Let's not forget the last young attacking midfielder to come out of MK Dons was Dele Alli.

Spurs gambled £5m on him, currently at Everton where he'll cost £10m if he makes 20 appearances - in a deal that could rise to £40m if certain targets are met.

Well worth the gamble I'd say

 

[Houston_Blade]

Freeman had consistently been a top Championship player... pretty different. But also proof that spending millions is always a gamble.

He had 4 seasons in the Championship and won POTY in one of the them. Not as good as he was made out to be, evidently.

 

[LudlamBlade]

He’s the new Luke Freeman, hyped up based on not a lot.

Like Morgan "5 games for Swansea and a handful of sub appearances for Wolves" Gibbs-White?

Newsflash : young players aren't going to have years of records and stats to judge them on - because they're young.

The question is do we want to be chancing on the young players like Twine or do we want to be the 3rd club in the chain and pay the inflated fees, once a player has proven themselves?

Do we want to be buying the likes of Oli McBurnie from Bradford for £250k, like Swansea? Or do we want to be buying those sorts of players (with an extra season's exposure) from the likes of Swansea - for £20m?

Luke Freeman is a totally different case and pretty irrelevant comparison.

Twine is a relatively unexposed, but clearly talented young player with plenty of spark. Freeman was bought two years too late, and for about £5m too much.

As another example, Ollie Watkins scored 21 in 68 for Exeter in League Two and went to Brentford for £1.8m.

They sold him to Villa for £30m.

Twine has scored 20 in 45 for MK Dons in League One, as well as goals in League Two for Swindon and Northampton.

He's proving himself already. Someone will buy him cheap, like Brentford, and they will make a hatful of money on him by selling him to someone like Villa.

Please let's be Brentford this time, not Villa.


(EDIT - I was interested so I had a look...Freeman has scored 42 goals in 372 career appearances and is 30 years old. Twine is 22 and has 42 goals in 151 appearances. You're free to make your own mind up but those numbers speak volumes!)

 

[Moan? Nope-I saw Longhorn]

Hull City?! Hull chuffing City!? Please no, if they're in for him and we're not something is seriously wrong!

Aye
Unless……
We ( management team) don’t think he is ‘worth’ that
Or
He is not what we need
Or
We think there is someone better
Or
‘ull have just been taken over by someone with a pocket full o’ brass
Or
They’re flogging Wilks for a massive sum (&/or that bloke with 3 surnames ) & have (even more) brass to spunk
Or
it’s just tosh (whether ‘price’ / destination / alleged interest)
Or
Ronnie Pickering is the new club sponsor & is investing (some of) his YouTube royalties

 

[Mouth of the South]

Aye
Unless……
We ( management team) don’t think he is ‘worth’ that
Or
He is not what we need
Or
We think there is someone better
Or
‘ull have just been taken over by someone with a pocket full o’ brass
Or
They’re flogging Wilks for a massive sum (&/or that bloke with 3 surnames ) & have (even more) brass to spunk
Or
it’s just tosh (whether ‘price’ / destination / alleged interest)
Or
Ronnie Pickering is the new club sponsor & is investing (some of) his YouTube royalties

I foresee another huge uproar when Utd don't sign a player they were at no stage interested in or 'in for'.

I wonder how many of those clamoring for him to be signed have actually seen him play a full game.

 

[LudlamBlade]

I foresee another huge uproar when Utd don't sign a player they were at no stage interested in or 'in for'.

I wonder how many of those clamoring for him to be signed have actually seen him play a full game.

Personally there'd be no uproar from me, if the club decide he's not for us then he's not for us. I'd be disappointed if he went on to be incredible and we'd turned him down, but that's football.

I can't speak for anyone else but I mentioned above that I've only actually seen 3 full matches that he's played in, but that's still more full games than I'd watched featuring MGW, Ndiaye, Osborn, Robinson, Didzy, Coutts, Baldock, Stevens, JoC, Basham, Henderson, Wes, Egan, Fleck or Bogle before we signed any of them...and that lot turned out alright!

I haven't ever watched Erling Haaland play a full game but I'm still pretty confident he's shit hot.

 

[robbiez666]

I foresee another huge uproar when Utd don't sign a player they were at no stage interested in or 'in for'.

I wonder how many of those clamoring for him to be signed have actually seen him play a full game.

If that 3 million is anything like true, then we're not matching it. And shouldn't in all honesty.

There are some nice goals up there but so has Ricky Holmes. It would nice to have someone who can take a direct freekick, but that's a huge gamble.

 

[Liaminho9]

If that 3 million is anything like true, then we're not matching it. And shouldn't in all honesty.

There are some nice goals up there but so has Ricky Holmes. It would nice to have someone who can take a direct freekick, but that's a huge gamble.

Hourihane was a very good free kick taker, and we barely utilised it.

 

[LudlamBlade]

If that 3 million is anything like true, then we're not matching it. And shouldn't in all honesty.

There are some nice goals up there but so has Ricky Holmes. It would nice to have someone who can take a direct freekick, but that's a huge gamble.

I hear that, and there's always an element of risk buying lower league players based on stats, YouTube videos, or a couple of thunderbastards.

Did you watch the full YouTube video linked at the bottom of the post? Shows a lot more of his build up play, passing ability and technical touches...I personally think he's a bit more than just someone who can hit a freekick.

For comparison, he'd be cheaper than Burke, Lowe, Freeman and Callum Robinson were.

He'd be hard pushed to be worse than those four!

 

[robbiez666]

I hear that, and there's always an element of risk buying lower league players based on stats, YouTube videos, or a couple of thunderbastards.

Did you watch the full YouTube video linked at the bottom of the post? Shows a lot more of his build up play, passing ability and technical touches...I personally think he's a bit more than just someone who can hit a freekick.

For comparison, he'd be cheaper than Burke, Lowe, Freeman and Callum Robinson were.

He'd be hard pushed to be worse than those four!

We had £120 million of TV money to spend when we bought them.

We have a very small budget to spend. Nowhere near £3 million, at a guess.

If he was £500k, then worth a punt. £3 million would be a major risk and potentially everything we had.

The problem isn't the skills or ability it's the ability to do that under much more intensive pressure. He might be good. He might be great. He might not be all that.

The fee is the issue more than the potential. We need to bring in 4-7 players with the limited budget.

 

[LudlamBlade]

We had £120 million of TV money to spend when we bought them.

We have a very small budget to spend. Nowhere near £3 million, at a guess.

If he was £500k, then worth a punt. £3 million would be a major risk and potentially everything we had.

The problem isn't the skills or ability it's the ability to do that under much more intensive pressure. He might be good. He might be great. He might not be all that.

The fee is the issue more than the potential. We need to bring in 4-7 players with the limited budget.

Yeah that's a very solid point about the TV/Prem money, I'm still hoping we've got more than a handful of coppers to spend, because if the club really are planning to bring in that many players with less than £3m then it's going to be a case of a scattering of mediocrity across the whole team, rather than the targeted investment we need in the attacking midfield role.

If it weren't for the Jokanovic Experiment at the start of last season we'd have probably got automatics and would have coasted in to the playoffs...so I think we only need 3/4 players realistically.

First team quality replacement for MGW (which I'd suggest Twine could be)

Fringe player/Bencher to replace Hourihane (Coulibaly surely cannot be worse than someone we'd get on a free from L1/L2)

And then a couple of squad-fillers to help us through any potential injury crises, and we should be okay.

Not saying its going to happen, not saying its the only way to do things, just saying that I personally would prefer the club to spend £3m on someone like Twine, instead of spending it on 6 x £500k players, plus all their respective wages.

The squad/team is basically there imo. It's like a cake that's been baked and just needs the icing on the top replacing, now that MGW has taken his magic marzipan home with him

 

[Bookers Mullet]

About as much chance of us signing mbappe as this lad, the days off us spending over a million for a player will only return if we get taken over or promoted.

Has great potential, but potential is a risk we can't afford and we need to set expectations accordingly. We'll end up with a few journey men and some prem loans