Brother Pedro has identified 12 cut price stars to win next season’s SPFL title.
Some steel will be added to the defence alongside midfield enforcers is the message to Sevco season ticket holders this morning as they come to terms with a traumatic week in which all the myths about the fifth best coach in Qatar were cruelly exposed as moonbeams.
Should Caixinha manage to bring in his dirty dozen they are going to have to rebuild the dressing rooms at the state of the art Murray Park training facility because there’s little chance that any of the best squad in Scotland will be walking away from their lucrative contracts.
In case he hasn’t yet looked into the matter Pedro will find that Andy Halliday, Jason Holt, Josh Windass, Micky O’Halloran and Matt Crooks are all sitting on contracts until 2020.
Today’s claim in the Daily Record comes with the news that offers have already been made for three players but on past form these ‘deals’ could become protracted.
Last years bids for O’Halloran and Joey Garner were long drawn out affairs as the selling clubs checked the toxic credit rating of the Ibrox club and insisted that the bulk of the fees were paid up front. If the tribute act goes into administration they can look at the previous examples of St Etienne and Rapid Vienna and reassess the wisdom of giving credit to a club from Ibrox.
Pedro expects to have his new stars in place by June 4 giving him three weeks training ahead of the first round qualifier for the Europa League.
The former bull fighter would be well advised to bring in as many players as possible this summer- once UEFA take a look at their unaudited accounts they will impose crippling conditions on any future European campaign ensuring that future European opponents don’t lose out to a club sustained by a mountain of IOU’s.
