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We already have some sort of formal football connections with Orange County Soccer and Bengaluru in India and some other thing with Hamburg, although I don't think that's a football player based formal connection. So we're already part of a "multi-club network" of sorts. It also explains all the fantastic young American and Indian talent we've unearthed recently... Didn't we get a young goalkeeper from Orange County once? Personally I hate the idea of multi-club ownership. City Group, Red Bull and 777 Partners are anathema to me, they go against everything I think football should be about. I hope Rangers are never swallowed up by one of them.

Nordsjælland have sold Simon Adingra, Mohammed Kudus, Kamaldeen Sulemana, Ernest Nuamah over the past few seasons, for a combined fee of around €60M. They are all from the 'Right to Dream' academy in Ghana. Is Diomande next up? What's interesting is all of them moved to another club from Nordsjælland before moving on to the bigger move. I suppose we're the stepping stone. Not a bad thing if we make money on them.

Up to our knee's in EBT's.

No surprise there really. Some of the Turks' rumour-mongers are worse than ours.

A village adjacent to Milngavie.

The future of football is a rigidly stratified 'competition' between multi-club networks. It will only be watched by bewildered Asians and a handful of massive VLs. Sad.

Peter McDougall invented a wonderfully indicative character to represent the Port, Clatty Bella had the best line in, 'Just a Boys' Game'. Jake and Dancer escape the torrential rain by entering the close of Clatty's flat. Drookit, they chap her door and whilst crossing the threshold inquire after the provision of a towel? Clatty replies, "Naw, ma boay's gone tae the swimming wae it". Such brevity?

I think he should never speak about us ever again.

A young lady named Clatty Bella from the Gallowgate is anxious to meet you.

Can I suggest a reasonable 20 points GPL deduction for those who wanted Beale to stay?

I did feel the original quoted cost was on the low side but it may be this fee is for the total package including any add-ons. In any event this is a big money transfer that we simply must get right in terms of his contribution at Rangers and when we inevitably move him on - hopefully after his value has substantially increased.

When it comes to gender there are only three possibilities - a male man, a female woman and a fukked up fantasist. Too honest?

I'd rather eat shit in the gutter than lose our identity. Your definition of success is my idea of hell and permanent loss. We left the top table long ago, now you want to sell our soul too. We spent our first 84 years in the Scottish domestic scene and I'd rather that was our future than spend every season as someone else's poodle, chasing some bullshit objective which we know we'll never be allowed to achieve.

The acclaimed scientist, Robert Winston, nailed it; he said that our sex is determined by every cell in our body.

As @Malangsob stated we are moving towards the US sporting system of major divisions having teams populated by farm affiliates playing at lower level. No coincidence that US ownership is spreading like wildfire throughout European football. Sickening to be honest, the game is dying. Cant wait for the Wrexham City cheerleaders performing the half time show at the Wembley FA Superbowl with Dr Dre while James Bond parachutes in for the fourth quarter.

Dundee are about to be Burnley's feeder and Hibs for Bournemouth. The question is will we be the hunter or the prey. Being a feeder club seems like a pointless existence. FC Liefering > RB Salzburg > RB Leipzig USG > Brighton Right to Dream > FCN > Where does the money go form here? Some examples of pointlessness. I get some may praise the Brighton Leipzig models, but where is the success?

That sentence shows you're completely missing the point as to why many of us don't want it. The likes of Man City, PSG and Red Bull aren't Scottish. Christ, their owners aren't even European.

All depends, I seem to recall a good few folks willing us to 'just get to the winter break' a few weeks back, after having a good few injuries. It's not really a break, it's a chance to spend some time with the players tactically as well, which a good manager will thrive on.

Good. Unnecessary.

Big John? You've been watching too many westerns. Lundstram is only 5' 11"

Cool. Glad we got someone in the door. Guy Diamonde seems to be decent on paper. Get Manhoef and Larry Shanks in and we will be GTG for the stretch .

Just watching the Rangers review and there are some moaning we are spending big on a midfielder, jeezy peeps man some people are never happy

You need one more vote - 55 votes! WE need 56 now

Poll closed! I finally got the result I wanted.

Peter has organised a post season trip to Japan for commercial reasons and, he wants to see the Cherry Blossom in late April-early May.

Anyone watching? Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana needimg miracles. Cameroon, Algeria and Tunisia out of the automatic qualifying spots currently. The top two teams from each of the six groups will reach the last 16 as well as the four best third-placed teams, so there is a real chance that some massive names are going to be missing the knockout round. Egypt scrape through by the skin of their teeth. Champions Senegal look the strongest.

Given that Sima's out injured long term without kicking a ball in anger , AFCON can do one.

What's a VL r_s? Me no speakee acronyms.

Booked my flight to France to watch it. Bring on the spoon burners

Sex and gender are the same thing, it's just that one of them has been hijacked by inadequates searching desperately for a cause.

I mean, the injury list can't just be bad luck!? Sima being out of the picture is a big blow, as he's been knocking the goals in. However, he was never playing in tomorrow night's match anyway, so we need to get the business done. I expect a tough match but if we play well enough, we'll win.

Another no-name Turkish journo pushes news about a foreign left-back's move which may or may not trigger the move of Ridvan to a Turkish club that a Turkish newspaper falsely claimed was forced upon Rangers by said Ridvan who seemingly knew not much about it. (I know that English speakers like their short sentences ... )

Gijs Smal has been associated with the two Scottish top clubs Celtic and Rangers FC for some time. The latter now seems to have taken the lead in signing the left back. According to Turkish journalist Orçun Ak, who says he writes for Ihlas Haber Ajansi, FC Twente has now reached an agreement with Rangers FC about the transfer fee. https://www.twenteinsite.nl/transfers/transferproat-fc-twente-en-rangers-bereiken-akkoord-over-smal?twit=862

They're both moronic terms that social media bell-ends bleat at each other.

Bugman is really a much better term. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bug man https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bugman)

It does not seem to be a pointless existence. It is a pointless existence. This is why a VL, or a bugman, notices no problem with it. Nothing out of the ordinary for such a person.

I don't think that will be much of an extension. 😉

I think he's a fantasist and an imposter

I stand corrected, @Sutton_blows_goats. I think I'm mixing them up with Midtyland, another unusual ownership model.

Another for the pet hate topic.

To the Scottish football fan, all players are big John or wee Jimmy. I’ve often wondered about the median. It seems from the above I’m ok to change my username to Big 7.

We won't get it (this window) but we need more than that.

The players tend to play matches anyway so unless the players are rested no need for a break.