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Going into the game on the 29th of December all the signs pointed to our squad running on empty but SG decided to gamble on the fitness of several players, partly down to the winter break allowing a window for recovery.... He galvanised the spirit and determination of the team and we beat them for the first time for a while. Unless Halliday has his leg hanging off, I think he'll play and I'm sure will have the right attitude for the game. As many have mentioned, the midfield is where the decisions are for SG&Co. My only two words on it are.........Play McCrorie

That's a bit harsh. They could at least do it with a bit of privacy...

That’s the final piece in an old fashioned half back line, you’ve got there. Nish, Punter and Tong. I like Punter in the middle. Some no nonsense clearances.

The idea that we could have signed Ryan Kent for 2M or so was always fantasy. Three things 1. We'll only get those type of players from the English market on loan 2. We have to explore other markets where you get more for your money 3. We have to start pushing are own promising youngsters where possible and giving them the chance to improve quickly

Recent moves from the club to encourage and put out a more positive vibe on Alfredo to counter the avalanche of negative is a good idea

It's not a matter that involves anyone at the club so IMO should have no bearing in game preparation.

The (Spring &) Summer 2019 Transfer Window Rumours and Deals - Thread SIGNED: Jordan Jones (24) Kilmarnock, left midfield, pre-contract signed on January 5th "Rangers wishes to place on record our thanks ... Kilmarnock for their cooperation in securing both agreements." Jake Hastie (19) - Motherwell, winger, contract till summer 2019 - LINK - signed 3-year deal with option - source family & FLHAD - LINK; Signed-LINK Steven Davis (34) - Southampton FC, midfielder, loaned from Soton till 2019, contract till 2019; now signed on a one-year deal - LINK ( -> Thrilled to stay - interview ) Greg Stewart (29) - Brimingham City / o loan at Aberdeen, striker, contract till 2019 (each) - FLHAD - "signed" 2-year deal (25/05/19) LINK - SIGNED 2-year deal 13/06/19 Zak Rudden (21) - contract till 2020 (?) - signed contract extension 21/06/2019) George Edmundson () - Oldham Athletic, centre-half, contract till 2020, perm. deal for 400k+ (25/05/19) LINK - signed 21/06/2019 Sheyi Ojo (21) - Liverpool (u23), right winger, contract till 2024, season-long loan deal signed (18/06/2019) LINK Joe Aribo (22) - Charlton Athletic, freebie, attacking midfielder, contract till 2023 signed 27/06/2019) LINK Brandon Barker (22) - Manchester City, freebie, left winger, contract till 2022 signed 09/08/2019 - LINK Filip Helander (23) - Centre half, Bologna, contract till 2022 - signed 13/07/2019 - LINK Andy King (30) - midfielder, Leicester City, contract till 2020 - signed on 15/08/2019 on loan for the season - TM stats site - LINK Ryan Kent (21) - Liverpool FC, forward, signed on 02/09/2019 - four years - supp. 6.5m + 1m addons + 20 % sell-on - LINK GONE after 2018/19: Myles Beerman (born 13.03.1999) – freed May 2019 Liam Burt ((born 01.02.1999) - freed May 2019 - since then signed for Celtic FC Joe Worrall (21) - Nottingham Forest, centre-half contract till 2019 -> returned to Forest, May 2019 Lee Wallace (born 21.08.1987) – contract till 2019 -> freed, signed by QPR Ryan Kent (21) - Liverpool FC, forward, - season-long loan from Liverpool -> returned to Liverpool, May 2019 Lassana Coulibaly (22) - defensive midfield - season-long loan from Angers -> returned to Angers, May 2019 Gareth McAuley - contract ended OUT (as of 03/09/2019) Robby McCrorie - season long loan at Queen of the South - LINK Jordan Rossiter () - CMF, contract till 2020 - loaned to Fleetwood Town till end of season - LINK Ross McCrorie (born 18.03.1998) – contract till 2022 - loaned to Portsmouth FC for the season long - LINK Eduardo Herrera - loaned to Necaxa FC till January 2020 Stephen Kelly (19) - contract till ... - loaned to Ayr United - LINK Cammy Palmer (19) - contract till 2021 - loaned to Partick Thistle - LINK Ryan Hardie (22) - Blackpool, permanent deal - undisclosed fee - LINK Daniel Candeias (born 23.02.1988) – contract till 2020 - signed for Genclerbirligi - undisclosed fee - LINK Jordan Rossiter () - CMF, contract till 2020 - loaned to Fleetwood till the end of the season - LINK Kyle Lafferty (30) - striker, contract till 2020 - contract terminated 24/07/219 - LINK Jak Alnwick (17.06.1993) - contract till 2020 - loaned to Blackpool till the end of the season - LINK Andrew Dallas - Cambridge United FC ca. £30,000 Glenn Middleton () left winger - season long loan to Hibernian till summer 2020 - LINK Josh McPake (17) left winger - 6-month loan to Dundee FC - LINK Jake Hastie - right winger, loaned to Rotherham United FC till summer 2020 - LINK Graham Dorrans - contract terminated - LINK Joe Dodoo - contract terminated - LINK Jason Holt - loaned to St Johnstone FC till summer 2020 - LINK RETURNING pre summer 2019: Ryan Hardie (born 17.03.1997) – contract till 2018 (On loan with Livingston FC) - contract extented till summer 2019 - see above Greg Docherty - (contract till 2022) - season-long loan to Shrewsbury Town confirmed on August 8th Lee Hodson (born 02.10.1991) – contract till 2019 (in Spain) - loaned to St. Mirren FC till end of the season Jak Alnwick (17.06.1993) - contract till 2020 - loaned to Scunthorpe United till January 2019 Zak Rudden () - contract till 20xx - loaned to Falkirk till summer 2019 Joe Dodoo (born 29.06.1995) – contract till 2020 - ON LOAN for a season to Blackpool FC (till summer 2019) Jason Holt - contract till 2020; Fleetwood Town (managed by Barton & Hill) - season-long loan signed June 18th Eduardo Herrera - loaned to Necaxa (Mexico) till summer 2019 Andrew Dallas - loaned to Morton till end of season - Link Robbie McCrorie - loaned to Morton till end of season - Link Jamie Barjonas (born 24.01.1999) – contract till 2020 - from Bury - loaned to Raith Rovers till summer 2019 Jak Alnwick () - contract till 2020 - loaned to Scunthorpe United till January 2019 - Loan extended till summer 2019 Jordan Rossiter () - CMF, contract till 2020 - loaned to Bury FC till end of season - LINK RUMOURS: IN - Curtis Tilt (26) - Blackpool FC, centre-half, contract till 2019 LINK new LINK IN (winter rumour) - Lawrence Shankland - (23) Ayr United, striker, contracted till next summer - (Swansea apparently making 400k move, 05/12/18) IN - Tomas Kalas (25) - Czech international defender, Chelsea, on loan at Bristol City, LINK IN - Lewis Holtby (28) - Hamburg SV, German, MF, contract till summer 2019 - LINK IN - Nick Powell (25) - Wigan, AMF, contract till summer 2019 - LINK IN - Timm Klose (31) - Norwich City, centre-half, contract till summer 2019, TM stats - FLHAD IN - Axel Tuanzebe (21) - Aston Villa loaned from ManU - contract there till summer 2020, centre-half, TM stats - FLHAD - LINK IN - Danny Wellbeck (28) - Arsenal, striker / winger, contract till summer 2019, TM stats - FLHAD (though unsubstantiated) IN - Martin Skrtel (34) - Fenerbahce, centre-half, contract till summer 2019, TM stats - various unsubstantiated IN - Andre Gray (27) - Watford FC, striker, contract till summer 2022, TM stats - FLHAD-Link IN - Mama Balde (23) - on loan at Alves, Sporting Lisbon B, right midfield / winger, contract till 2022, TM stats, FLHAD-LINK IN Kemar Roofe (26) - striker, Leeds United, contract till 2020 IN - Filip Helander (23) - Centre half, Bologna, contract till 2022 - LINK - TM stats IN - Ryan Kent (21) - Liverpool FC, forward, season-long loan from Liverpool with option to buy OUT - Alfredo Morelos - various OUT - James Tavernier - various OUT - Kyle Lafferty - Apollon Limassol - Scotsman & interest from Qatar & Saudi-Arabia OUT - Jason Holt - QPR NON-STARTERS: IN - Stewart Downing (34) - Middlesbrough, LMF, contract till 2019 - LINK - rubbished by MD 27th March 2019 IN - Karlan Ahearne-Grant (21) - Huddersfield, striker, contract till 2022 - LINK - apparently signed contract extension with Huddersfield Town IN - Graeme Shinnie (27) - Aberdeen, left-back, freebie - LINK signed for Derby County IN - Edson Mexer (30) - Stade Rennes, centre-half, freebie , signed for Girondins Bordeaux IN (winter rumour) - Gary Mackay-Steven - (28) Aberdeen, left midfield, contract till next summer, pre-contract deal supposedly done - rumour only - signed for NYC OUT - SQUAD as of 03 / 09 / 2019 (Squad listed in order of remaining length of contract) For running updates, see here: https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/glasgow-rangers/startseite/verein/124 Goal: Wesley Foderingham (born 14.01.1991) – contract till 2020 Allan McGregor (born 31.01.1982) – contract till 2020 Andy Firth (22), Barrow FC, goalkeeper, contract till 2020 (?) - Link Defence Jon Flannagan (25) - right-back - contract till 2020 James Tavernier (born 31.10.1991) – contract till 2021 Matt Polster (25), right fullback/midfield, contract till summer 2021 Nikola Katic - centre-half, 21 - contract till 2022 Connor Goldson (25) - centre half, contract till 2022 Borna Barisic (25) - left-back - contract till 2022 George Edmundson (21) - centre-half, contract till 2023 Filip Helander (23) - centre half, contract till 2022 Midfield Steven Davis () – contract till 2020 Sheyi Ojo (21) - loaned from Liverpool (u23), right winger - loan till summer 2020 Ryan Jack (born 27.02.1992) – CMF, contract till 2020 Andrew Halliday (born 11.10.1991) – LMF, left fullback, contract till 2020 Jamie Murphy (born 28.08.1989) - left-winger, contract till 2021 Scott Arfield (born 01.11.1988) - contract till 2022 Eros Grezda (23) - left winger, contract till 2022 Glen Kamara (23) - CMF, contract till 2023 Jordan Jones (24) left midfield, contract till 2022 Joe Aribo (22) - attacking midfielder, contract till 2023 Andy King (30) - central midfielder, contract till 2020 Brandon Barker (22) - left winger, contract till 2022 Ryan Kent (21) - forward, contract till 2023 Strikers Jermain Defoe (36) - striker, loaned from Bournemouth till summer 2020 Greg Stewart (29) - striker, contract till 2021 Alfredo Morelos (born 21.06.1996) – striker, contract till 2023 Coaching Staff Squad in 2019/2020 as of (26th March 2019) https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/glasgow-rangers/kadernaechstesaison/verein/124

Clip from a Rangers produced Morelos doc to be released in full by the club today.

Please add Greg Stewart to the ‘in’ rumours ?

Really enjoyed that video! so many more goals could be added but it has given me confidence for Sunday ?, only joking I don't fancy us to win on Sunday.

Perhaps Barcelona is twinned with Greenock

Cant believe I am agreeing with you on something

You do know what off the shelf companies are, right barca ? Basically there will be a plethora of "Pacific Shelf" companies - what would tie Celtic to a Pacific Shelf company would be the number eg, Pacific Shelf 1872 (see what I did there ? :D) - it is the 1872 that would be how you would tie them to Celtic if it was Celtic that had incorporated a Company from that "Shelf" Company. The Pacific Shelf companies, much like the sevco companies, are boilerplate companies with very generic Memo and Articles of Association - they cost little to incorporate and are done quickly and efficiently.

There's a great interview with Davie Robertson on H&H done by Martyn Ramsey. Listened to it on the way into work this morning.

So, one should consider them separate entities then?

Yeah, I well remember watching Laudrup run amok against Brazil in the World Cup quarter final & wondering where he’d been for us most of that season. Not that he ever showed that form for Chelsea either. We probably should have had a clear out in 97, but you don’t just sack legends like McCall, McCoist, Goram etc

That was up in January ... and no news ever since. BTW, the Record (?) has a story today that Liverpool "may" look to want 8-10m for Kent in the summer ... because he played so well for us. Our left midfield/wing next season has Murphy, Grezda, Middleton and Jones ... so other areas are probably more important.

For another view try www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2019/mar/25/scotland-old-firm-hype-sfa-grim-governance which firmly puts the blame on the SFA as an institution.