Hibs transfer latest - including pursuit of Sunderland prospect - from preseason in sunny Holland. With added windmills. - video Dailymotion

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Hibs correspondent John Greechan braves the busy cycle paths to deliver an on-site transfer update from the gritty heart of the beating metropolis hosting David Gray’s men for preseason. Watch out for windmills and, erm, bikers …

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00:00Hello from the sunny Netherlands. Yep, I am that cliched to find the windmill.

00:07But I didn't have to find it, they're just round about. It's not a cliche if it's true.

00:11I'm here with Hibs on their pre-season where they're still building towards the new campaign.

00:19I had a really interesting chat with David Gray this morning out at the team hotel as the players

00:26were given a bit of a break, allowed to cycle off more cliches into the village to get themselves

00:32some fancy coffees. Interesting chat about transfers, especially Nectar Triantis.

00:43No big shocks coming. But there was a bit of interesting chat about how long do you wait

00:49for the right guy. Everyone knows he's the right guy, he's the one they want.

00:52But do you sit hanging around, hanging around, hanging around and only get disappointed at the end?

00:57Do you wait and wait, not get him, get him, get him too late? You maybe pass on some other guys.

01:03So it's going to be an interesting few weeks I would think.

01:07You know, Sunderland have just spent over 50 million quid on a pair of midfielders which

01:11says an awful lot about what they can do and the kind of end of the market they're shopping in. So

01:17as much as we all appreciate what Nectar Triantis does, if you're a Premier League club and you're

01:23looking at a guy who hasn't played much even in the English Championship, he's done well in Scotland,

01:27do you take that chance? Look at how many players move directly from Scottish Premiership to the

01:32Premier League. It isn't that many. So it's going to be an interesting few weeks ahead on that front.

01:39Just really good to sit down and get Gray's thoughts on, you know, getting Rocky Bashiri back,

01:44Junior Hoylet, a few other things. It's always nice just to sit and chat to some of the players,

01:49get a feel for what's going on. Things feel pretty good, although they felt pretty good last pre-season

01:57and then they went crashing into a pretty terrible start to the season. So they've learned from that,

02:03you know, Gray's now in his second year as a manager. They're working hard,

02:08they've got to play Ajax this weekend and then they're back, the Essen game next week.

02:17It's going to be an interesting few weeks and keep watching the space for the transfers and keep

02:22watching the windmills because that was definitely going earlier.

Hibs transfer latest - including pursuit of Sunderland prospect - from preseason in sunny Holland. With added windmills.

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