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The Winter 2021/22 Rangers Transfer Window Rumours and Deals - Thread A month ahead of x-mas, this is what many have craved for. So off we go ... LINK to a rumour source TM is the TransferMarkt stats side for that player SIGNED in Winter 2020/21: IN - James Sands -New York City, 21, CB, USA, contract till 2026 - LINK - TM - DONE DEAL (05 Jan) IN - Cedric Itten - loan to Greuter Fürth cut short - LINK (12 Jan) IN - Pre-Contract - John Souttar - Heart of Midlothian, 25, CB, Scotland, 4-year deal - LINK (14 Jan) IN - Amad Diallo - Manchester United, 19, RW, Ivory Coast/Italy, 6-month loan - signed LINK - TM IN - Mateusz Zukowski - Lech Gdansk, 20, RB, Poland, ct till 6/2022, 3,5-year deal - TM - DONE DEAL IN - Aaron Ramsey - Juventus, 31, AM, Wales, ct till 6/2023 - loaned till 6/2021 - LINK - TM - DONE DEAL GONE in Winter 2021 OUT - Nathan Patterson - Everton - LINK (21 Dec) - deal close (2 Jan) - DONE DEAL OUT - Jermaine Defoe - (released) - LINK (12 Jan) - signed for Sunderland (31 Jan) OUT on loan - Stephen Kelly (21) - to Salford City till end of season - LINK OUT - Juninho Bacuna (24) - A/CM - contract 6/2023 - signed for Birmingham City, undisclosed - LINK OUT - Brandon Barker (25) – contract terminated 31 Jan. - LINK OUT - Jake Hastie (23) - loaned to Linfield till 6/2022, contract at Rangers till 2023 RUMOURS: IN - Jeando Fuchs - Dundee United, 24, CM, Cameroon, contract till 6/2022 - LINK - TM IN - Francis Amuzu RSC Anderlecht, 22, RW, Ghana, contract till 6/2024 - LINK - TM IN - Pablo Torre - Real Santander, 18, AM, Spain, contract till 2025 - LINK - TM IN - Crysencio Summerville - Leeds United, 20, RW, Dutch, contract till 2023 - LINK - TM IN - John Souttar - 25, CH, Scottish, contract till 2022 - LINK (05 Jan) new LINK (09 Jan)- TM IN - Danilho Doekhi - 23, CH, Dutch/Suriname, contract till 2022 - LINK (09 Jan) - TM IN - Frank Castaneda - 27, ST, Colombia, freebie - LINK (09 Jan) - TM OUT - Ianis Hagi - Galatasaray - LINK OUT -Joe Aribo - Crystal Palace / Brentford / Watford - LINK (30 Nov) OUT - Borna Barisic - Watford - LINK (26 Dec) OUT - Alfredo Morelos - Newcastle, Everton, Leicester - LINK (04 Jan 22) OUT - Jack Simpson - Middlesbrough - LINK (10 Jan) (If there`s anything in some official channel, outlet, paper et al, it will appear here. So far there are just murmurs like SG wanting Barisic or Patterson, but only on fan-run sites.) CONTRACT EXTENSIONS - Jon McLaughlin till 2024 - LINK NON-STARTERS: IN - Xavi Simons - Barcelona - dismissed LINK (03 Dec) IN - Andreas Skov Olsen - Bologna, 21, RW, Denmark, contract till 6/2024 - LINK - new LINK- TM - signed for Club Bruges IN - James McAtee - ManCity, 19, AM, England, 6-months loan, LINK - TM - remains at Man City LOANS 2021/22 Lewis Mayo - Partick Thistle - season long loan, option 01/22; contract at Rangersl 2023 Kai Kennedy - Dunfermline Athletic - (as above) James Maxwell - Ayr United - (as above) Josh McPake (19) - RM/RW - 6/2024 - loaned to Morecombe (January option) - LINK [Jake Hastie (23) – LW/RW - 6/2023 - loaned to Partick till January - LINK ] Glenn Middleton (21) – LW - 6/2023 - loaned to St. Johnstone - LINK [Cedric Itten (24) - ST - contract 6/2024 - loaned to Greuther Fürth (January option, 3m buy option) - LINK ] Nikola Katic (24) - CH - contract 6/2023 - loaned to Hajduk Split (January option) - LINK SQUAD as of 20 / 08 / 2021 Squad listed in order of remaining length of contract & primary position Full squad list at Transfermarkt Squad by primary and optional position at Transfermarkt Goal: Allan McGregor (40) – contract 6/2022 Andy Firth (25) - contract 6/2022 Robby McCrorie (23) - contract 6/2023 Jon McLaughlin (34) - contract 6/2024 Defence Leon Balogun (33) - CH/RB - contract 6/2022 Connor Goldson (28) - CH - contract 6/2022 James Sands (21) - CH/DM - loan till 6/2022 plus excl. buy option Filip Helander (28) - CH - contract 6/2023 James Tavernier (30) – RB- contract 6/2024 Borna Barisic (29) - LB - contract 6/2024 Calvin Bassey (21) - LB/CH - contract 6/2024 Leon King (17) - CH - contract till 6/2024 IN - Mateusz Zukowski (20) - RB, contract till 6/2024 Jack Simpson (24) - CH - contract till 6/2025 Midfield Steven Davis (36) – CM - contract 6/2022 Scott Arfield (33) – C/LM - contract 6/2022 Brandon Barker (25) – LW - contract 6/2022 Amad Diallo (19) - RW - loan 2022 Aaron Ramsey (30) - CM - loan 2022 Ryan Jack (29) – CM - contract 6/2023 Joe Aribo (25) – AM - contract 6/2023 Ryan Kent (25) – LW/AM - contract 6/2023 Ianis Hagi (23) - AM – contract 6/2024 John Lundstram (27) - CM - contract 2024 Nnamdi Ofoborh (22) – (CM) – contract 6/2025 Scott Wright (24) - LW/AM - contract till 6/2025 Glen Kamara (26) – CM - contract 6/2025 Strikers Alfredo Morelos (25) – ST - contract 6/2023 Cedric Itten (25) - ST - contract 6/2024 Kemar Roofe (28) - ST - contract 6/2024 Fashion Sakala (24) – ST – contract 6/2025 Coaching Staff Check out the club's home page Academy / B Side -> https://www.Rangers.co.uk/article/academy-restructure/4skGYIfqugwK1CvGZUHFH0 Leon King (see above) - given new contract till 2024 and promoted to first team squad Women's Side -> https://rangers.co.uk/teams/ladies-senior/

It's not a proper transfer thread without @Bill deriding it. It has now been christened.

I'd expect Lundstram and Jack to form a double midfield pivot, allowing Patterson and Bassey to interact with the forwards as well. Let's take the game to the racists and make Ibrox rock.

Balance? The Rangers media vortex was perfectly portrayed over the last few days, it was Scottish League Cup semi-final weekend and the Pacific Quay Gang Hut brought it's usual balance to events. The four semi-finalists were Rangers, Sellik, Hibs and, St Johnstone Off the Ball set the benchmark. One of the co-Hosts, RAB Cosgrove is a Saintee thus every fart and burp is covered including why 2,000 Saints supporters at Hampden on Saturday was, "a good turn out". Since the first semi on Saturday was Sellik v Saints, the Off the Ball show had balance, the guest was Craig McLean. A former Keeper at 'Well and Clyde gave up football for an Equity card. In his soliloquy he blurted, "ahm a big Sellik man". It was pantomime time on the Sunday show, another Actor and full time Hibee, Dougray Scott dropped the 'F' bomb and told of only ever being threatened once, by a Rangers supporter obviously after the 2016 Scottish Cup final. The balance was provided by RAB Cosgrove, even his mucker', Tam Cowan called it, "you're just a big Hater". RAB stated, "Gerrard was off before the next Administration" and, "Neil McCann will not be talking to BBC Scotland by the end of the weekend". RAB has recently entered his 70th year and his trolling of Rangers supporters extends to pronunciation. Giovanni van Bronkhurst is having his Christian name mispronounced. It's not Gee-o-vanni, the proper pronunciation is Joh-vanni. RAB quotes the authority of the Editor of Flourish - the RC Archdiocese of Glasgow Journal. Ronnie Convery has joined Kevin McKenna, Angela Haggerty, Jum Spence, Gerry Braiden, ............. and, Phil McFournames in telling RAB what to tell Rangers supporters. Ronnie was a Spokesperson for Cardinal O'Brien for several years, maybe he'll tell RAB why the Scots Cardinal spent his final four years living in Northumbria? Anyways, RAB will be the recipient of multiple pats on his napper from those named. He can be relied upon to supply that special PQ balance when required. Last week, he did the Big Dick thing, resorting to his newspaper column to present a preferred prejudice. He had several bites on radio about the way Actor, Brian Cox was treated on Question Time. I watched the show and the Dundee born and bred Thespian made a roaring cnut of himself. The final question epitomised, it was with reference to Glasgow hosting COP 26 and a bin man strike taking place because of a plague of rats? Brian answered, "that's life". Brian Cox is just another big Sellik man and he has lived outside Scotland these last fifty years, the last couple of decades in Manhattan. He was the ScotsNat rep' on the panel. He got off the plane, pinned on the necessary lapel badges and the damp of the SECC reminded him why he left the country. RAB was outraged such a special Actor was disrespected. So much so, he utilised his National column to inform the five thousand folks that continue to purchase the comic that those administrating the bin workers strike(the GMB) were funders of the Better Together campaign. Further, they were not interested in promoting Scotland's good image. Nicola and Brian copped it unfairly, the bin men were only motivated by greed. RAB brought balance to the rats and chaos present in the FM's constituency of Govanhill. It's hardly surprising, RAB of the sandstone villa in Dennistoun, the Sri Lankan villa with infinity pool, the East London flats, ............ supports Nicola and Brian against working men toiling in appalling conditions. His Socialism is framed in precise National terms, pronunciation - RAB Balance.

Well said, Arthur. Richard Gough made a similar statement about Goldson's post-match interview. The line from Follow Follow should be pinned to the dressing room wall, "We will fight til the day is done."

From another place. (Let’s be fair. It’s FF) Arthur Numan admits he was astonished by Connor Goldson's post-match comments after Rangers crashed out of the Premier Sports Cup on Sunday. He said: “To lose a semi-final in that way was unacceptable. I can't believe the manner of the defeat. I was then even more surprised by Connor Goldson's comments in his interview on television at full-time. “For a Rangers player to say the game was over at half-time when the team are 3-1 down was an astonishing admission. “To also say that the team has lost a bit if hunger was equally alarming. How can you have lost a bit of hunger when you have won one trophy in three seasons? “Yes, I get that the trophy was one of the most important in the club's history and Steven Gerrard and the players will always be remembered for it. “But you need to go and win again. And again. And again. And again. Rangers is about winning silverware on a regular basis. If you don't have the hunger and desire to do that then you should be asked to leave or be sold on.”

The poor bloke is just in the door and it's a feeding frenzy, time for everyone to step back and let the boss do his job now

Sell the feckin lot of them

As Frankie says, the 3 things we need more than any other is hunger, tempo and quality. All have been sadly lacking in our performances all season. What got me was when watching the tims match at the weekend, they only managed a few shots on target due to the St Johnstone players throwing themselves at almost every shot that was goal bound, even Porteous threw himself in front of Kamaras shot in the second half, they showed hunger in abundance, that along with tempo and quality wins you football matches, not the tippy tappy powder puff stuff we have been served recently.

And if its even possible, to make Sunday's result even worse, Hibs currently 1-0 down at Ross County.

Oh well, that's okay then.

That would also have the benefit of allowing a more stable defence.

Oh God, not this crap again

I'm not confident about tomorrow night. Our defence will have to be severely improved if we're not to concede and there are other issues in midfield and up front. I also think the atmosphere will be flat.

Wanted urgently two wee bandy legged wingers who can get to the bye line cut it back cross the baw take on an opponent and leave them.in their wake , that's what's required. 🤣

Given the lack of width we've had lately due to the awful form of Tav and Barisic then Gio may well ask Kent and Wright to hug the touchline with Sakala as the focal point. Wouldn't surprise me to see a front two with Kent or Hagi in behind though. As always there are plenty of options but we need hunger, tempo and quality if we're to make any system work.

Rangers had momentum as a result of scoring just before half time. That should have sown the seeds of doubt in the minds of the opposition.

I don’t favour Chelsea but they’re a rattling good side.

There's also a video on the main site for RTV subscribers. Pros: As good to see the manager specifically highlight us moving the ball quicker. Cons: No sign of Balogun which may make him a doubt for tomorrow's game though I do believe he doesn't always train.

Chelsea gave Juventus their biggest ever defeat in the champions league last night with three of the goalscorers coming through from their academy well done them ,.

For me, the most telling thing about Goldson's interview was that it should have been our captain who faced the media after a humiliation like that. But it's been a long time since we had a captain at Rangers.

Suffered a seizure and collapsed during his game tonight. Walked off the pitch and is on way to hospital - hope and pray he makes a full recovery🙏

I could understand that if he was playing for Brighton against Real Madrid but even then, it would be a shameful thing to admit. No Rangers player should think like that and if they do, they definitely shouldn't admit it. We were playing a Hibs side in poor form.

I can't believe any self-respecting footballer would say they knew the game was over when they're two goals down at half-time. What an embarrassing thing to say.