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I'm just catching up with this thread. From pages 1 and 2, some are wanting Kamara out. No way! Yes he was a bit inconsistent but what player isn't? Need to keep Kamara unless a good bid comes in.

Yeah, they'll finish 14th instead of 15th.

Matondo imminent now.

Most important team to worry about is ourselves. If we are at it, we can go into any tie with confidence. If we haven't sorted our business, fully prepared, players settled in/recovered and aren't fully up to speed then we will probably struggle regardless of opponent.

It is very important to the development of our player trading model that Joe does well. Worth much more than the contractual add-ons.

No, I don't think so. The opposite, in fact; it doesn't require top-class players. That's why many smaller sides punch above their weight. Bielsa took a Leeds team full of average Championship players into the PL top-10 (maybe just outside in the end - I can't recall); and Hasenhuttl took Leipzig from the 2.Bundesliga to 2nd in the Bundesliga playing that way; even Klopp transforms an average Liverpool side playing that way, even before they made the signings to win the league. You could argue Pochettino had Tottenham pushing above their weight implementing it. Gasperini's Atalanta are definitely punching above their weight in Serie A, consistently finishing in the top-4. It just needs a coach with the ability to implement it. Whether GvB is that coach, I don't know... I think Dave Vos is, though.

Of the four signings we’ve made so far, Tom Lawrence could be the interesting one for me. Goalscoring MF players are worth their weight in gold. We’ve lost aribo so was vital we replaced him in some way

Just hope we haven’t given Schalke 04 a large percentage sell on clause for Matondo. He’s only 21. Make no mistake if he does well for us he’s offski

Had a wee look at Caskie’s stats report on Matondo and Kent and thought I’d do a comparison, as they look very similar in style from Youtube. In short, Matondo seems to have played much more as a wing forward for Cercle who wants to be in the box, whereas Kent sees himself as a winger. Worth bearing in mind, Cercle Brugge finished 16th out of 18, so comparing stats here is very hard. - Matondo’s goal threat stats are far better, and he actually outperforms an already high xG. Presumably, he was encouraged to get in the box and score goals whereas Kent has been asked to create goals, but even if you assume that is the case, the stats are very impressive. - Matondo’s crossing stats are very low in comparison, doesn't cross often and when he does they aren't that accurate. Hard to know how much team set-up affects that. - Dribbling stats are remarkably similar, basically they both attempt dribbles all the time but have a very low success rate. To an extent, you can understand low success the more attempts you make, but it suggests to me that he relies on pace more than close control, which I have always said is true of Kent too. - Similar attacking movement stats. Accelerations and progressive runs are very high. These things are important as you are constantly stretching the opposition and making runs. - Received passes is very low for Matondo and very high for Kent. Explained partly by the fact Matondo seems to have been playing as more of a forward whereas Kent drops deep quite a lot and builds attack. Slight concern of lack of involvement in play maybe. - General passing stats are very low for Matondo. Partly explained as above, but a slight concern at very low no of passes to the penalty box, suggests to me that vision and through balls could be a weakness. Kent has high stats for all those, but of course he's had the advantage of playing for Rangers and not relegation strugglers. More encouragingly, the most important stat, xA, is almost exactly same despite all of the above. So Matondo seems to be creating chances at a similar rate to Kent despite having these other low stats. Worth noting that it seems Kent got very lucky with assists last season and is a due a major correction down as his expected assists were far lower than his actual. You'd need to check his assists one by one to see if that is the case though. - Attacking passing stats are actually very decent when you consider who he's playing for. - Defensive stats are generally poor for Matondo. Very low no of successful defensive actions, very low possession adjusted interceptions and very low aerial duel success. One encouraging stat is a very decent duel success percentage. Perhaps surprisingly, Kents stats are all very low for all those too. So it is encouraging that Matondo’s duel success % is good bit higher than Kent’s because he looks like a wee guy. My verdict would be that this looks a very promising signing at the fee quoted. 4 years younger than Kent with loads of scope to improve, especially while playing for a team who dominate the play. Seems like he could help us add goal threat to our front 3 which has been a major problem. Question marks over creativity/end product, but absolutely worth the risk.

Southampton are so inconsistent and unpredictable. They'll always be a mid to lower league team. Jo Aribo won't improve their consistency .

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Only my opinion but there’s no way this transfer window is finished for Rangers. I expect further business pending CL results. We’ll see.

Yeah he will mate (good to see you back bud - still in the force ?). Youtube is no place to judge (as we learned with Sebo) but he has blistering pace (fastest 20 metres ever recorded at Man City, beating Sterling, Sane and Walker and, funnily enough, quicker over 20 metres than Usain Bolt - true story !), tricky, direct but definitely needs work on his decision-making when either shooting or delivering the ball in. My fear is whether he will be able to use his pace given how deep teams sit against us - however, if he is deployed on the right wing then it also should mean that Kent isnt double-teamed on the other side, which should open him up to be able to contribute more as well. He signed for Schalke for 11 mill from Man City and was part of their first team. The Tims were after him as well apparently.

He’ll do well and he deserves. Still don't understand how we didn't get £10m up front. I’d be shocked if the EPL clubs would walk away from that.

Malmo played us on the 3rd and 10th of August. They started their league season on 10th April. They had played 13 match days in the league, excluding European qualifiers.

Malmo were halfway through their league season when we played them. We’d played one just league game. They were more up to speed than we were

Finishing 12th instead of 15th would see them recoup over the initial 6M* they paid for Joe. * According to last season's prize money

Probably best to avoid Union SG.

Can't understand why there doesn't seem to have been firm interest/bids come in for GK. He is a gem of a player and would enhance most mid to lower EPL starting lineups.

Anyone but Monaco for me. Though they'll all be tricky ties.

Decent player. Decent contribution. Decent profit. If they could all end like this. I wish him the best.

Good luck Joe and welcome back at Ibrox any time.

Nice sign off. Best of luck to Aribo, he's got the potential to be a top class player and I hope he fulfills it.