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Nsiala could find Lord Lucan with a pass.

Butland Soutter Propper Sterling Kasanwirjo Danilo Cortes Lawrence Some list mounting up, especially in defence. Thankfully Tav and Balogun are back playing, especially when you consider Ridvan has played about 5 games in a row so must be due a couple of months out soon.

Dont think there was one, think it was just there was no one else. Sterling still playing hide and seek in the Physio room too

Aberdeen are garbage. Might struggle to stay in the top 6. Nsiala’s performance goes to show, with no real title race on the cards giving the young boys a chance does no harm.

Great goal Dessers. Add a milllion onto the fee.

Should be 5 or 6 let’s be honest

Our ball retention at this stage of games is tragic

Unreal our injuries

Nah

Playing some good stuff, creating some good chances.. not taking any..

Hope to see an improvement from Bajrami. Has not been impressing as of late.

Nsialas distribution is very good so far

Oh dear Danilo injured. See you in 6 months pal

Hagi had played a few sensational through balls leading to great chances.

Terrible moustache but lovely finish

I see Dumbarton and ICT are in administration (or financial difficulty of sorts). I wonder how difficult it would be for those running our club to spin up a mysterious shell company and buy them over, use them as a farm team to send young players on loan too. Remember all those strange entities that owned shares in us that was never made clear who owned them during the spiv era, just registered to some lawyer somewhere.

He should be moved on in the summer, will be down to his last year of contract and given his injury issues not sure giving him a new contract would be worth it. Look at Sterling for example. That was a waste, hope we didn't give him much of a wage rise. Hopefully we can move him on in the summer. Basically a right sided Ridvan.

That guy Pete O Rourke hasn't got anything right when it comes to transfers Footy insider reporting it too, not sure if they can be trusted either, but its something. Let us hope.

He might replace Dowell, but we could replace Dowell with a dead horse tbh. He's probably going to replace Lawrence who is out of contract at the end of the season.

Sky Sports reporting we are in talks to sign Lyall Cameron from Dundee. Bring him home, scarf above head etc

That's not how it works. The plan is always to try and build a winning team on the park. How you construct that team, with specific player profiles is what is important. If you buy young players, you get cheap wages and potential to improve (in theory). As a result these players have high value, as a buying club can buy a player with an upside and who should be looking for a modest wage. Look around world football. All the money is being spent on players 23 and under. Teams aren't breaking records buying Zidane and Figo at 28 anymore. The Goldson scenario was another example of how not to do player trading. We spend 3 million and 20k per week on a solid to good performer for 4 years. If he left for free and the end of his contract, that's good business. The key part to any player trading model is to sell high (after success) and sell at the right time (before any new contracts / wage rises). We did it with Aribo, Bassey and Sakala so it can be done. The issue is we didn't reinvest it properly after that. Its not about selling a player as soon as you make any profit, that is counter productive.

Stevie Clifford said on the Rangers review this morning he has heard we are interested in Abdel Abqar of Alaves (free at end of season) and Liam Lindsay of Preston. I'd take Lindsay on a free if he is running down his contract, would be a good squad player. Big strong guy, good left foot. Know a guy who was assistant manager when he was Barnsley and he raved about him, said he was much better than they expected when they signed him from Partick.

I think if we are looking at a centre back we should be looking at a similar profile to Nikola Katic when he first signed, a young player from a Croatian type league or Scandinavia, perhaps on a loan to buy. Give them 6 months to assess. We have 6 months of breathing space until we will be expected to mount a title challenge again (realistically or not) so its a good opportunity to roll the dice.

The Rangers Review understands the club are not active in talks to sign Burnley defender Hjalmar Ekdal on loan, however Although Ekdel is a profile known to the club it's believed that Rangers are pursuing other targets in defence at this moment in time. Rangers are committed to not selling any players making an impact on the pitch in the January window. However, as previously reported, they remain open to offers for others such as forward Cyriel Dessers, as they continue to rebuild their squad.