Totti
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terrific post!
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Exactly. He might often lose possession but he can pick the ball up from the halfway line and advance very quickly, something that's been a rarity at Ibrox in recent years. He might be very raw but seeing a winger/forward that can actually dribble is a welcome return at Ibrox. He also gives us technique and creativity in the final third, another thing lacking in recent years. BTW - My opinion would have been different a month or 2 ago where he went through a very poor spell.
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jelavic is going to get sent off when he was hammered down in the first place edit - luckily no red for jelavic. strange incident
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If he gets off his high horse it will take him a long time to climb down
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Try watching more games, he's pish. A hatchet man if ever there was one
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how? Neither were proven at decent sides
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Walter Smith identifies them. He chose to sign this waster
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Celtic signed Mizuno on special circumstances as did we with Edu
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What a great signing he was.
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The debating style which just proved you wrong and you clearly have no comeback.
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We do it too. our official attendances are often way higher than actual
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And with better scouts maybe we could find more Cuellars...hurr durrrrr de derppp
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So because they're doing it we shouldn't bother? It's a big world out there. If anything the fact all these clubs are doing it should be illustrating to us how important it is. Having a good scouting network is a no brainer
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I think you need the doctor if you can't follow what I'm saying. Obviously like all teams we should continue to work on our youth development but it should not be our only point of focus.
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People bury their heads in the sand and are afraid of progressive change. Why should we focus on homegrown talent when its proven there is vastly superior and often cheaper players abroad. The old firm both spent big on two average UK players - Lafferty and Brown. That money could have bought terrific players abroad. Obviously continue to work hard on homegrown youth but when you consider the fact that Scotland has really struggled to produce more than a handful of particularly good players in the past 10-15 years....foreigners are clearly vital to our future.
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Understatement of the century Of course it's bloody worth it. It doesn't have to just be South America etc, but more other EU countries. And in case you haven't noticed the general standard of players in Scotland is appalling - look at our national team. The standards of fitness, technique and attitude are all vastly superior abroad There's many Cuellars and Papac's out there who are much better than your McCulloch's and Laffertys
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It's probably to do with the fact we seem to have no strategic goals/objectives, only operational day to day ones. Getting a load of scouts might not dividends for a season or 2 so Murrays maybe not interested. There's some article on the web thats a few years old that looked at Sevillas scouting network and how impressive it was. It also factored in the fact that scouts do not get high wages and it makes far more sense to have a load of scouts across the world than a couple of dud footballers who were signed because the scouting was poor...
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He left because his wife was ill
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According to whom? Official SPL stats: Average attendance Total Attendance They would have made a fortune in previous seasons when competing in Europe too due to their attendances
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If David Murray's philosophy had been for every fiver Celtic spend we will spend 6 quid things might have gone a whole lot better . Murray has never shown himself to be the intelligent businessman he considers himself to be (and surely is?) at Rangers. We seem to have gone through continuous cycles in the 00's of over spending then under spending. I think something we could really have benefited from is a CEO capable of running the club efficiently. The word 'prudent' has no place at Ibrox. We should never have spent �£12m+ on Flo and we should never be forced to sign players on loan from Aberdeen either. We recently just appeared to be on solid financial ground then overspent again, largely on players of not very high calibre and low resale value. The 00's have largely been a hellish time for Rangers fans. Since the end of the 02/03 season there has rarely been a Rangers team I've been truly content and proud of. Sure there has been some positives, notably reaching the final of the UEFA Cup but it has been a strange and often disastrous period. If Martin O'Neil never left Celtic, god knows what gap there would be now. What also hasn't helped our cause is the amount of atrocious signings made in the past 10 years, particularly by Alex McLeish. Although many didn't cost much they would still have taken a fair wage and some would have been compensated highly in their releases. Murray will leave this club worse off than when he came, which surely says it all. For all the millions we've spent we still have a rather archaic infrastructure with no scouting network to speak of and questionable youth development. We actually appear now to have more promising youths than ever but they appear to only feature as a last ditch resort and then don't appear again for some time. John Fleck's career won't progress until he gets considerable first team football, surely he could have spent the last couple of seasons on loan at clubs in the lower English leagues instead of playing in the reserves and sitting on the bench PS - At the end of the day the whole thing stinks with regard to the way we are run. We don't even know who run us. Transfers are constantly protracted affairs. Valuable assets end up leaving on bosmans or low fees near the end of their contracts. Our owner appears to have no interest. We don't know exactly how much tax we owe. Nobody seems remotely interested in buying us. We appear to be the most confused, complex, poorly run business this side of the Atlantic Ocean. Maybe one day with the benefit of hindsight and historical accounts we will be able to know the truth - and one might guess it might reflect that Rangers was a tool to advance Murray's other businesses
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Doubt we'll win. Maybe fluke a 2-1 We do benefit from them being incredibly shit but then again they humped us 3-0 not long ago
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So is the second tier in any big league and the 27+ year olds playing in such a league are there for a reason. It's not as if he's playing for a good championship team either. If he was that good he'd be in the premiership by now.
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It shows how pathetic we are that we have to debate whether we can afford to loan a player
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If we didn't have him our midfield would look woeful, particularly with Naismith likely being played permanently up front now
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Tbh I think the bigger blow here is that Celtic can now easily out muscle us in the transfer market. With the way we go about our protracted transfers, we should be ready for them to steal a lot of our targets. Kris Commons is nothing special. He's 27 and playing in the championship for a reason.
