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Just had a look at the new CL "league sort of thing" system. What a farce. We've come a very very long way from that soggy night at Ibrox against Marseille to end up with this trash.

Age is not really matter now, either way. If you are good enough, you are old enough. You see Leverkusen or Leipzig with half a team of kids way below 25 running away with games. Same in France and Spain. We (almost forever) have a tendency to sign "talented" youngsters, but also seasoned stars who by default make sure that the talent will hardly ever see the pitch of Ibrox. Only necessity meant that some youngsters were thrown in at the deep end and proved their worth. Only that the managers (of late) simply send them back to the bench/youngsters if the seasoned warriors came back (and usually the dire fare continued). IMHO, most of the chaps blooded these last two seasons hardly set a foot wrong. Brightest spark this season was McCausland, whose drive and bite were rarely seen on that flank with other people. How it can go was seen with Patterson and, to some extent, Bassey. Likewise, Weir, Davis and Balogun show that if the body is fine, people can nowadays go on to 35 with not much problem. A DM or CM is not exactly meant to be a sprinter these days, just grab the ball from the defence and do something useful with it. That aside, it looks like we are doing some business early in the window, which is good. The more, the better.

... and if you find any errors, you may keep them!

The Summer 2024 Rangers Transfer Window Rumours and Deals - Thread LINK to a rumour source TM is the TransferMarkt stats side for that player SIGNED in Summer 2024: IN - Jefte (20) - LB, Brazil, Fluminense - on loan at APOEL Nicosia, contract till 2026 - TM - TM stats - SIGNED LINK IN - Oscar Cortes (21) - AM, RC Lens, Colombia, contract till 2028 - TM - TM Stats - SIGNED - 1-year loan and obligation to buy IN - Mohamed Diomande (22) - contract till 2028 - (fee Euro 5m) IN - Clinton Nsiala (20) - CB, AC Milan Youth, French, contract till 2024 - TM - TM stats - SIGNED (officially on July 1st) IN - Connor Barron (21) - DM, Aberdeen, Scottish, freebie - TM - TM stats - SIGNED 4-year deal IN – Liam Kelly (28) - GK, freebie, Scotland – TM - LINK - SIGNED IN - Hamza Igamane (21) - ST, FAR Rabat, Morocco - contract till 2026 - TM - TM stats - LINK - SIGNED IN - Vaclav Cerny (26) - RW, Czech, VfL Wolfsburg - contract till 2027 - TM - TM stats - SIGNED on a season long loan GONE in Summer 2024 OUT - Kieran Wright (25) – contract till 6/202X - season long loan to Airdrieonians OUT - Robby McCrorie (26) - signed for Kilmarnock, fee unknown → Contracts ending Summer 2024 Jon McLaughlin (36) - contract 6/2024 Kemar Roofe (30) - ST - contract 6/2024 Borna Barisic (31) - LB - contract 6/2024 Mohamed Diomande (22) - contract till 2024+ → see below Ryan Jack (32) – CM - contract 6/2024 John Lundstram (30) - CM - contract 6/2024 Abdallah Sima (22) - RW/ST - contract till 2024 (season long loan) → see below Fabio Silva (21) - ST – loan ends RETURN in Summer 2024 RUMOURS: IN Mohamed Diomande (22) - CM, Ivory Coast, FC Nordsjaelland, contract till 12/2024 - TM - TM stats - LINK - DONE LOAN till end of season with obligation to buy IN - Abdallah Sima (22) - RW/ST - TM – TM Stats - contract till 2025 - LINK IN - Adama Traore (28) - RW, Spain, Ferencvaros - contract till 2025 - TM - TM stats - LINK OUT – James Tavernier – Saudi Arabia OUT – Connor Goldson – Suadi Arabia OUT – Sam Lammers – Utrecht wants permanent deal CONTRACT EXTENSIONS Leon Balogun (35) - CH - contract 6/2025 - LINK NON-STARTERS: IN - Jose Cordoba (22) - CB, Panama, Levski Sofia, contract till 2025 - we pulled out IN- Yusuf Kabadyi (20) - LW, Bayern Munich 2, German - contract till 2025 - TM - TM stats - LINK - joined Augsburg IN - Thomas Galdames (25) - CB/LB, Chile, Godoy Cruz - contract till 12/2024 - TM - TM stats - LINK - signed for a Russian side SQUAD as of 24 / 05 / 2023 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: Liam Kelly (28) - contract till 6/2026 Jack Butland (31) - contract till 2027 Defence Leon Balogun (36) - CH, contract 2025 James Tavernier (32) – RB - contract 6/2026 Leon King (20) - CH - contract 6/2026 Adam Devine (21) RB – contract 6/2025 Connor Goldson (31) - CH - contract 6/2026 John Souttar (27) - CH - contract 6/2026 Ben Davies (28) - CH - contract 6/2026 Clinton Nsiala (20) - CH - contract till 202x Ridvan Yilmaz (23) - LB - contract 6/2027 Dujon Sterling (24) - CB - contract till 2027 Jefte (20) - LB - contract till 2028 Midfield Oscar Cortes (20) – RW – contract 2025 (season long loan and obligation to buy) Tom Lawrence (30) - LW - contract 2025 Scott Wright (26) - LW/AM - contract 6/2025 Alex Lowry (20) - AM - contract 6/2025 Rabbi Matondo (23) - RW - contract 2026 Ianis Hagi (25) – AM – contract till 2026 Nicolas Raskin (23) – CM – contract 2027 Todd Cantwell (26) – AM – contract 6/202x Kieran Dowell (26) - AM - contract till 2027 Jose Cifuentes (24) - CM - contract till 6/2027 Ross McCausland (21) – RW – contract till 2027 Mohamed Diomande (22) -DM - contract till 2028 Connor Barron (21) - DM - contract till 2028 Strikers Cyriel Dessers (28) - ST - contract till 2027 Danilo Pereira da Silva (24) - ST - contract till 2027 Sam Lammers (27) – ST – contract till 2027 Hamza Igamane (21) - ST - contract till 2029 Coaching Staff Check out the club's home page Academy / B Side -> https://www.Rangers.co.uk/article/academy-restructure/4skGYIfqugwK1CvGZUHFH0 Women's Side -> https://rangers.co.uk/teams/ladies-senior/ OUT ON LOAN ...

A few low-key forwards are available for free this summer ...

I would agree with most, but we should go 3-4-3 or the like most of the time. Or have two dedicated striker in every game, plus to winger-like players (which should not be fullbacks in disguise). Cantwell is THE creative spark that we have, plays the unexpected pass, lops a ball into the danger area etc.. I can easily forgive him most of his faults, he simply should be given a free role in front of Raskin and Diomande, who worked well. It is sort of bizarre that these two and Davies and Balogun/King looked safer at times than our regulars. The thing with those four is, that they "think" much more forward than most others we have in there, who have become far too comfortable with the square, side, or back pass, instead of grabbing the ball and use the open field in front of them to run at the opponent too. I still go by what I said back in January: the core of a team is there, they have the quality to get us to trophies. Since then, though, we lost most of our summer and winter signings and loans, i.e. most of those people who would have turned the tide - and for very long spells. To think that much of the season essentially hinged on a couple of low-key games we threw away, plus a handful of ridiculous VAR- and refereeing decisions, tells us that the solution is not that far away. History cannot be changed, though I hope that Karma will finally deal with them next season.

For good reason, I kept the sound off for today and during most games anyway. Or use non-English stre... things. RTV aside, no matter what British channel is broadcasting our games, the encyclopedic knowledge of these chaps on opposition players who once took a corner against us or whose step-grandfather scored a goal against us is "amazing", and also tells us of their pedigree. I've decided to dedicate this day to Sir Walter, no matter the outcome of the game. So here's a glass to Mr. Smith!

He is there to put the likes of Dundee to the sword late on. We do not need to waste the skills of Cortez, Sima, or Danilo and risk injury for that. It's a squad game, and he will be a squad player at clubs like us. No problem with that.

There's only contempt in me for this Scum. Even if they are cannot draw on their money-given quality, Fortune has been a whore clad in green-white all season, or the refereeing rats helped them along. Hat's off to our hospital gang for giving all the 100 % that they have, can't expect much more. Onwards we soldier ...

Wow, these rats descend into the deepest depths now.

They've got a squad multi-millions ahead of the rest and still have handsome assistance from the SFA and its cohorts ... time and again.

Scales man-handled Sterling and Sima aside with nothing, here was a little push on Hart and the ref acts ... the Scottish game, on and off the field is rotten to the core.

Mr Romano says that the Jefte deal is almost done and dusted. Looks good and strong in the videos, we can shift Ridvan a little further up the par, wouldn't be surprised if he ends up there anyway in the future.

Next week ... as I told Rousseau. Promises and all ...

He's a good shot-stopper that will do a job when called upon. McCrorie will seek more game time, which is understandable.

Jefte to Rangers transfer 'confirmed' as key details emerge and signing double nears The 21-year-old looked set for a move to Ibrox in January but it was protracted. Now it seems they will land their man. Brazilian rising star Jefte’s move to Ibrox is now a done deal with the full back set to officially become a Rangers player in July, according to a report in Brazil. Philippe Clement is on the hunt for a left back with Borna Barisic set to end his six-year stay in Scotland when his contact expires. Rangers had agreed a deal for the 20-year-old South American during the January transfer window but it was complicated due to the fact he was on loan to APOEL Nicosia from Fluminese who failed to rubber stamp the move. The Cypriots wanted to sign the player permanently but have failed to agree terms with the player and now he will become a Rangers player. A Fluminese media channel reports: "Despite Apoel's interest in keeping the player, Jefte will be a player for Rangers, in Scotland, from July onwards. Deal confirmed." Jefte is likely to follow Panama defender Jose Cordoba with Rangers agreeing a deal with Levski Sofia. The Light Blues have agreed personal terms with the Panama international and are expected to thrash out a fee with Sofia. Reports in Bulgaria have claimed that the fee could be around £3.2m but that would include future add-ons that are built into the transfer. The initial upfront deal is likely to be closer to £2 million.

Cantwell has a problem with positional discipline? It is his job to be the creative driving force, and he's doing much of that in our team. Our deep-rooted problems lie in the fact that more often than not our centre-halfs are those playing the balls around and to the front, our DMs, who are supposed to do that, are typically all over the place and playing pointless one-twos with the defenders. And lo and behold, our attackers get slaughtered because they have not much productive support (in terms of assists, goals, pressing) from the back, but are supposed to run rings around packed defences. As long as we don't cut this six-man defensive men rubbish week in and week out, we won't go anywhere in Scotland in terms of trophies and titles. Thus, we're a blunt force, though this season mostly because of a ridiculous amount of injuries to our main attackers too.

... and there it comes down to a missed chance in the OF game last week that we end up without the league title. Quite frustrating. Obviously, the hybris over there has also infested their women's team, going by their manageress' comments. They essentially scraped through due to us missing a couple of chances and dropping a couple of points of late in the season - as unexpected as unnecessary.

Thank heavens that this is no transfer thread ... 🤣 Rangers are likely to hold talks with Oscar Cortes about turning the winger's loan deal from Lens into a permanent transfer, despite the Colombian missing the end of the season through injury. (Football Insider), external Rangers have been given hope in their pursuit of Brazilian full back Jefte, with APOEL Nicosia yet to agree personal terms on a permanent transfer from Fluminense. (Scottish Sun) Of all the transfer links to Rangers heading into the summer, Jose Cordoba has always appeared the closest to completion. The Panamanian centre-back, 22, has impressed during a three-and-a-half year stint with Bulgarian side Levski Sofia and there have been links to Rangers stretching back to the turn of the year. Journalists in Panama pointed towards Rangers interest, with the Ibrox side said to be facing competition from France, Turkey and Belgium. But amid reports the Gers are in ‘advanced talks’ with Jose Cordoba – and claims the club gave the centre-back the Ibrox treatment against Kilmarnock – this link looks increasingly concrete. And now the latest coming out of Bulgaria has suggested that Rangers are closing in on a deal for Jose Cordoba and are even ready to pay over the odds to get him into Ibrox. Rangers to pay ‘more money’ for Cordoba According to Bulgarian publication Blitz, Rangers and Levski Sofia are in ‘final negotiations’ over the transfer. Citing information they’ve sourced from Panama, the report claims that Jose Cordoba has a pre-agreement to join Rangers with the two clubs now thrashing out the particulars of the move. Harry Souttar is one name which scarcely goes a transfer window without being linked to Rangers. The boyhood bluenose, 25, was reportedly an Ibrox transfer target at the beginning of last season with all the sounds around Harry Souttar heading into deadline day. The brother of Rangers centre-half John Souttar, something tells us that the chatter around a move to Ibrox isn’t going to go away for the big Australian international. And now, as if to add fuel to the fire ahead of the summer, Souttar has been spotted in a Rangers jersey after Leicester City earned promotion to the Premier League. Rangers-linked South Africa talent Relebohile Mofokeng is a man in demand. The 19-year-old Orlando Pirates winger is having quite the season in the Rainbow Nation and as a result is turning heads everywhere from Glasgow to Cairo. Having recently had his talents compared to Andres Iniesta, South Afrian World Cup hero Siphiwe Tshabalala claims Mofokeng has ‘great potential’ to become South African football’s biggest export and tipped the midfielder-turned-winger to have a ‘great future’ in the national team.

Yes, but he will only cost half the money we will receive for Tavernier from SG 😎 ... we love the rumours, don't we?

Yes, they have some sort of Youtube Channel with the audio stream.

There's talk that Nathan Paterson is willing to call it a day at Merseyside and head home to the famous. We shall see ...

"And Hearts will end their season on a high!" ... the guy cries in the micro. It stands at 3-3 From their perspective, after a 1-2, 0-1, 0-5, 1-3 and 0-2, a draw seems to be a "high" for Hearts? Or he's just a twat ... No injuries, Ridvan, Sterling and Sima with game time.

We go from Dessers being a hero to villain in the space of 7 days, if not less. He'll score the winner against the Scum in the cup final and no-one will remember his misses. As with Morelos' or McCoist's. We love to put things under the microscope and run rings about it. Like we haven't seen it all before throughout the decades. Luck in front of goals shifts and changes.

What's strange about it? We've played like that all season? Some players tend to take up strange positions ... you'll find Tavernier near the penalty spot every other game, somewhere around the centre-circle etc.. All Hearts did was counter-attacking (like many teams do) and have the means to do so. We've been vulnerable to this for 5 years now, and with a makeshift line up, no wonder a Shankland chap grabs his chance. I'd bring Ridvan on at half time, maybe bring Silva on as another striker.