RANGERRAB

2 hours ago, 26th of foot said:

When this spat was first aired, I remember Michael Stewart utilising BBC Scotland to put the Doncaster - MacLennan case. He ended the piece by saying, "Neil Doncaster and Murdoch MacLennan, these are the good guys".

 

He should be reminded.

Michael is a useful idiot to whoever requires his services.

Perhaps the SFA have now looked at the SPFL/SPL’s track record & handed the gun to Rangers.

Mutton should always be referred to as the failed Lincoln City Manager 

7 hours ago, craig said:

The English are complaining about the Saudis coming in and taking all the best players in their prime.... It is extreme hypocrisy - the English did the EXACT same thing when the Sky money came rolling into England.

 

They are all crying now because all of a sudden there is competition

Not sure the players the Saudis are currently taking are in their prime. 
And I’m not sure the Saudi league is a threat to the EPL. (not yet anyway)

Have the SFA handed Rangers the opportunity to finish off the SPFL ? 😋

I wouldn’t think the SPFL would be able to survive the financial fallout of losing the court case & paying off Doncaster ( & MacLennan too hopefully)

16 minutes ago, ChelseaBoy said:

What state would that be?

 

Clearlake capital (US) a private investment firm own 60%

LA Dodgers/LA Lakers part owners Billionaires Todd Boehly/Mark Walter own 20%  

Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss Foundation own 20%

 

Apparently the terms that Roman Abramovitch insisted on after seeing what happened to Man Utd prevent any of the new owners from selling shares, or collecting fees or dividends from the club for a decade. There are also limits to the level of debt they can impose upon the club.

PIF(Saudi Arabia) are investors in Clearlake.

That why they’re buying up some of those players Chelsea need to get rid off to avoid FFP rules?

Sad news. Second Scotland manager to have taken Scotland to both the EC and WC.

And Craig Brown was a Rangers man 🤠

Wonder how long it will be before people realise Man city & Newcastle are state-owned clubs? Chelsea too maybe

And what action will be taken?

53 minutes ago, Bluedell said:

Not forgetting PIF who own Newcastle and the whole of the Saudi league. 

PIF who also have a stake in Clearwater capital who own Chelsea?🤠

PIF whose chairman (& also Newcastle chairman) is a Saudi government minister as we learned from LIV golf 🤠

interesting times ahead…

In a banana republic Mulholland would be in jail by now but in SNP-run Scotland we’re not as good as that

ST’s sold out again

A good sign or do we need a bigger stadium ?

7 hours ago, Bill said:

I'm happy to see the back of Tillman and his confusing contract. It seemed clear to me he had little intention of returning to Rangers anyway. It's £5m to spend on someone else.

I agree but surely the T&C’s of his return should have been watertight when we originally took him on loan?

Another failing by our former DoF ?

Rarely works out second time around for a manager when he returns to a club(Walter Smith being a notable exception)

Interesting his assistant Chris Davies won’t be joining Brenda this time. Wonder if that’ll affect things this time around? He’s keeping the back room staff including Kennedy and Strachan who bombed spectacularly when put in charge after Lennon left.

Surely he knows he won’t get an easy time of it this time around. No Warburton, Pedro or Murty. 
I always thought he never fancied it when Gerrard became Rangers manager. Looked for an easy exit and took it.

Now Gerrard’s no2 is now running Rangers he may wish he’d bided his time until something came up in England but his stock has surely fallen after Leicester’s relegation. Can’t see him doing an Eddie Howe 

44 minutes ago, Bluedell said:

Ferguson never impressed me that much when he was at Aberdeen. He didn't represent good value for money, but the fact that he seems to be flourishing in Italy suggests that I either missed his good games or I'm not as good a judge of a player as I thought I was.  Probably a bit of both. 

Maybe SerieA not as good as it was has a lot to do with it

3 hours ago, CammyF said:

I was at a Q&A run by my local RSC and Ian Durrant and Derek Ferguson were the guests. Both spoke brilliantly and passionately about their times at Rangers.

 

Derek mentioned Lewis and said Rangers never enquired (Celtic did but he'd never condsider joining them) and he is loving his time abroad. Said Rangers would be only team he'd return to Scotland for but would also like a crack at EPL.

 

We missed a trick in my opinion, but we move on.

When LF signed a contract extension at Aberdeen it virtually ruled out any move to Rangers. Aberdeen could then sell him to whoever they wanted & at whatever price 

All top clubs in Scotland are struggling to produce enough quality young players for their first team squads.Most now recruit journeymen from outside Scotland from lower leagues in other countries instead of developing their own players 

I have to say I was never convinced about the lowland league as I didn’t think the teams in it were of a particularly high standard.

Perhaps the answer is to go to a u23 league for the SPFL premiership clubs with allowances for a quota of overage players in each game. 

53 minutes ago, forlanssister said:

King's support wasn't needed, he played his hand in concert with Club1872 and fell short.

 

King wants his money back Park doesn't which do think the Board favour?

Why doesn’t King just sell his shares to whoever will buy them? 

50 minutes ago, the gunslinger said:

he was cracking in Holland before getting 2 big moves. 

 

I think he will stroll scotland in epic fashion. 

Hope you’re right 🤓

I still think we should be signing players in their early 20s rather than ones looking to get their career back on track 

12 minutes ago, ian1964 said:

King stated that he is '100 per cent behind' Bennett and Bisgrove and said: “I have no idea whatsoever if the so-called Easdale shares have been released by a Court order.

"I was the one who had them blocked and cannot conceive of a good reason why this could be overturned by a Court.

"What I can say, emphatically, is that I have had no discussions with the Easdales for many years and they have made no attempt to contact me. They know that I would never enter into an alliance with them."

 

https://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/football/23587686.dave-king-responds-easdale-talks-claims-backs-rangers-board/?ref=twtrec

Didn’t the easdales sell their shares to DK ?

This Lammers signing looks too big a gamble for me. His recent stats aren’t good 

34 minutes ago, compo said:

Could be interesting times coming 

Especially if current shareholder sell

2 hours ago, yuddie said:

Intrigued to see how this one pans out, technically better than anything we've had upfront in years.

Just a lack of goals over past 2 or 3 seasons worries me. Can only presume we’re after another striker to play thro the middle & Lammers plays in a wide or deeper role

On 09/06/2023 at 10:43, compo said:

Looks like the Sheikh has given the united board an ultimatum they have until the end of the day   to accept   he would be bettet buying Everton who will soon have a first class stadium and would be a far better project .

Mon the toffees 

The Glazers have vastly over valued Man Utd. No one is willing to pay their asking price of £6bn, not even a sheikh

55 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

I was unsure so I put them down as club signings, I think, but Mark Allen wasn't a recruitment expert. He was appointed to build the structure, which was necessary. I think Gerrard would have agreed to them, though; certainly at that early stage in our rebuild. 

 

I've outlined above how they've not overstepped their role at all. It's the opposite: they've not had enough influence. Just look at the hodgepodge of signings. I don't see how you can look at that and not see that it's the managers making the decisions. Do you think Beale would have signed Colak or Sands? 

 

I can agree that the role can be more clearly defined. I don't think the board know what they want, though. Hopefully the news guys get on with it soon.  

So how much influence do you think the DoF should have? Should he alone sign the players with little or no input from the manager? I’d kinda suggest that’s a recipe for disaster. 

30 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

I don't see a recognisable profile from Gerrard to GvB to Beale, so I find it difficult to belive the DoF was responsible for them. If he was, there would be a recognised style and style to all of them. 

 

Three out of our last four managers have screwed up our recruitment and squad building; from Caixinha's Mexicans, Gerrard being unable to refresh and sell players, to GvB being unable to see a player or use them properly. Surely you don't want this to continue?

 

I'd like to see us have the best of both worlds: a DoF that is a specialist in recruitment and a coach that is good at working with the players at his disposal - which, I think Beale is good at; he's certainly got more out of the players that GvB had and signed.

Did the Rangers manager ask to sign Brandon Barker, Jake Hastie & Jordan Jones? Or was it someone else? 

Look,  I’m not anti-DoF. I think his role needs to be much more clearly defined. The 2 we’ve had seem to me to have over-stepped their role a bit on several occasions. 

2 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

As I outlined in the OP, it turns out it was our manager that signed the duds, not the DoF. 

I find it difficult to believe that many of the players signed when GvB was manager were his choice