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Playing him left centre back makes sense I think. Although if he's going to progress as a centre back, even a left footed one, that will pretty much mean the end of his international hopes I think. There's just too many better options at centre back. It's left wing back where we needed someone like him to come good.
agree with that. lets see how he does. hopefully able to eek out a career with a 'best of the rest' club in spl. i never fancied him lwb with rovers tbh was surprised at how well he did. lcb should suit him better imo. he is a good footballer, a bit too good for loi i think but just not at the level of a celtic/rangers player.Quote:
Originally Posted by liamoo11
Scales will bring balance to the Aberdeen side.
He's tipped for great thingsQuote:
Originally Posted by Trequartista20
Is this heading down the fish run ?
I need to weigh it up a bit more before I decide if its good or bad move
Yeah, don't cast any aspersions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Razors left peg
Did you mean asperchions?
There's a weight of expectation around Scales, fans think he's really going to tare it up next season.
Playing well so far for Aberdeen. Haven't been watching but scanned their forum and they seem very happy with him even if they generally don't like taking loans from Celtic. There was a lot of negativity around him (or the idea of a loan moreso) but he looks to have won them over on the field. Seems to be playing mainly as a left sided centre half but also had a game at left back I think. "Effortlessly solid" "just a really good defender" "sign him up" etc.
https://www.aberdeenlive.news/sport/...scales-7498593
Just in addition to the above. Good start.
Had to go 9 pages back to find this thread. Passed James McCarthy, Darragh Burns and a few players I've never heard of to get here!
For a lad who is still in and around squads Scales obviously hasn't captured the foot.ie imagination but he's back playing well for Aberdeen who are on a bit of a roll.
Looks like he's lining out as the left sided centre back for the most part.
He ain't heavy.
Why didn't you use the search option? Click "Advanced Search" -> "Search Single Content Type" -> Enter "Scales" as the keyword, then click "Search Entire Post" and change it to "Search Title Only"Quote:
Originally Posted by ontheotherhand
You can change the "Show Results As" option to Threads as well, but it's not necessary.
Thanks tets.....I actually wanted to see how many pages back he'd be. When I clicked one and didn't see him despite his fairly recent call up I thought it would be interesting to see how far he's fallen back!Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Fair enough, the thread is missing from the player threads list in the important threads post as well, so I've added it there too
Swimming upstream for a while in Scotland but he's flying now. Goal, clean sheet and MotM today against rangers.
good write up here...
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/65369221
"At some point in recent weeks Liam Scales must have jumped through one of those portals you see in Marvel movies and entered the multiverse of footballing madness.
The haunted Aberdeen defender of before has been left behind amid the smouldering embers of all those losses under Jim Goodwin - the 4-0 at Tannadice, the 5-0 at Hearts, the 6-0 at Hibernian and the catastrophe that was Darvel, a loss that only feels like it happened in another lifetime.
Scales played in all of those. He bore the scars. He got sent off at 4-0 at Easter Road and as he made his way off he would have given Goodwin and owner Dave Cormack an almighty run for their money as the nation's most miserable man. He could not have looked more at sea had he hired a boat and sailed off into the distance, back to his homeland on Ireland's south-east coast.
That was then. This is now. The Scales we see now, alongside Angus MacDonald and Mattie Pollock, is a different person; utterly comfortable in a reconstituted defensive line that has not conceded a goal in an age, a trio that had the presence of nightclub doormen turning away Rangers players at every turn with a 'not tonight lads' vibe."
Played the second half of Celtic's 1-0 win over Osaka in Japan today (as did Lawal and Vata)
Though Celtic linked with a defender from Legia Warsaw, which would be bad news. Still not yet clear what his role for the coming season is likely to be