re leveins scouting, u nailed it on the head. maybury was a genius piece of transfer activity (a practically forgotten about Leeds reserve), hartley was a failed premier division player plying his trade in the lower leagues in scotland and kisnorbo and de vries were unheard of and from foreign lands. he knows what hes doing, honestly
however, i thought i made it clear in another thread that u lot should stop stealing our players now! dammit, stop! webster hartley and gordon are the only 3 real assets we have any more, so quit it!
back onto this thread tho, hartleys fantastic. hes a guy who hibs had a few years ago but ended up being pish (he was playing in a crap team and as a winger. hes a central midfielder, no a winger.) he dropeed a division to st johnstone, where even by their managers accounts, he was nowhere near as good as he is now. when he arrived at tynie he was pretty good, but then he got a public rollicking from levein about his work off the ball, was dropped for a few games and has been consistently fantastic ever since. What can i tell u? he used to play for hibs and we love him. thats how good hes been for us
yet another example of leveins excellent man management and getting the very best out of a player who evryone thought had failed at a higher level. a callup to scotland squad is in the offing, but apparently celtic are prepared to offer £300k (yes, £300k! a player that Braga, Feyenoord, Schalke and Basel all identified as our most potent threat this season is worth £300k! whats the world comin to??)
this is a guy i REALLY dont want to go. i spose if he goes anywhere id rather it was to ure lot, but PLEASE, do u know what ure doing to us??