Scott McKenna

But doing ok in the PL in England is which he did by all accounts and the championship which are both higher levels than we have domestically is a higher bar. Not sure any of Welsh or Scales could play at EPL or top championship level consistently.

We got CCV from the English championship, so I think some people are forgetting. He was rated as Scotlands best defender last night or Hanley but it was between those 2. I would take him as a 3rd option before scales etc.

 

Would love to have:
RCB: CCV, Nawrocki
LCB: Starfelt (also could play RCB if needed), McKenna

Scales as 5th choice.

 

I'm actually very surprised people are putting up so much resistance to a free transfer... Experience, homegrown, physical, seems to have a good attitude from all I've heard... I'd definitely be taking it, if I could, and looking at then getting another in at what would be half price overall - a £6M defender would be same as buying 2 £3M defenders...

 

Then when we don't sign a left back yet again scales can be second choice for that

 

Don’t think he did much wrong this euros. Although that doesn’t say much as Hanley was our best defender.

if he’s a free, and wages under 25k (coming from a prem club I’d assume he’s already close to that if not over) then I’d take him

 

we need somebody else to snap him up quickly

 

For me signing him comes down to how little I trust our recruitment team. We shelled out £7m on a centre back who had a history of being made of glass and is weak aerially and a guy who is too slow to play a high line and has great long distribution for a counter attacking team but weak at short passing for a possession dominant team.

Is there better out there than McKenna thay we could afford? definitely. Is it likely we get them probably not.

The Austrian guy gives me the fear a bit as well as he sounds like a quicker Nawrocki in that he isn’t good aerially or that strong at defending.

 

I honestly don’t see what people are complaining about. He was pretty solid defensively and decent on the ball.

I would be very happy if we signed McKenna on a free. In a dream situation, he’s competition for the LCB slot, but I honestly doubt we’ll sign anyone better. He is miles better than Scales.

 

Thought he did ok last night.

 

If McKenna was a Celtic player last season though then Scales frankly wouldn’t have had the season he just had. In fact, Scales would likely have been sold last summer.

Just because playing for Scotland isn’t a particularly high bar, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t look at Scottish players. I’m sure we’d all take Hickey, Tierney, Robertson, McGinn and McTominay in a heartbeat, for example.

 

Thought He played well last night, hopefully now We go and sign McKenna, would be criminal if The Board/Recruitment Team aren't considering going for Him especially as He is a Homegrown Player and on a free transfer.

 

Sorry but one ok performance doesn't justify signing this lump of wood. There's far better out there, we should be looking to improve this area not keep adding average players to that position

 

We could do a lot worse, he’d be an upgrade on Scales and has plenty experience plus the quota for CL it just makes sense.

Thought he was very solid for Scotland and can definitely do us a turn.

 

It's starting.

The longer the rumour sits out there, the longer we don't do anything, the more fans turn around and accept it as at least something.

Slowly but surely, the downgrading continues on.

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Given our scouting record I'd rather McKenna over our usual 1-3m unknown name.

I think it would be a sensible signing. Forests player of the year when they won the Championship a couple of seasons back. Realistically I don't see us spending money to get someone with a better pedigree.

 

Think he means hendry who actually was pretty decent yesterday


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And they would all improve 100% not playing in Steve Clark's negative system

 

Agree it's good taking Scottish players - but only they improve our first team.
My point was that if someone gets in a weak Scotland team before you, especially at centre half then that doesn't say much for you.

There's an irony in your list that McGinn and Hickey would already be playing for us if it wasn't for for scrooge mclawell.
Ferguson another excellent Scottish talent that we didn't go for when we could have - despite his family loyalties.