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2 hours ago, Frankie said:

Looks like Steven Davis will also be leaving but will be supported back to full fitness first.

But not supporting Helander back to full fitness? 

In addition to these ones I presume we’ll now be trying to move on a few others not out of contract 

I’ve got two issues signing Jack Butland as our first choice GK for next season:-

1) what happens if we sign him on a 3 year contract at £30-40k p.w. & he starts making too many mistakes like Jon McLaughlin did start last season?

2) if he’s so good why has he hardly played these past 2 seasons? Surely someone down south would have signed him by now?

I think we need to give McCrorie his chance & we need to sign another young keeper to challenge him for the jersey.
I don’t think he looked great at times yesterday but he’s only 25 and we have to be a bit more patient.All GK’s make mistakes. 

1 hour ago, Uilleam said:

Basically, it is pretty simple, and it applies, really, to any position: play your best man, until you can lay hand on someone better. 

 

 

That doesn't answer the OP's question, I know. The answer to that is Peter Shilton. 

 

 

 

Souness once said something like that when he was Rangers manager.

Problem is you can’t always guarantee the player you’re signing is better 

3 hours ago, CammyF said:

He's been offered a contract at Man U - reported to have turned it down as wants 1st team football. The reported offer from Man U was at least 3 times more than he'll get paid at Rangers. 

 

McCrorie may okay not be good enough to be our No1 but we need at least 2 keepers, may be even 3.

McGregor is retiring & McLaughlin doesn’t seem to have a future at Rangers .

That only leaves McCrorie so we’ll need at least one new GK for next season

Much easier game than I expected.

Good to see another good performance from Souttar and young King getting a game hopefully before he’ll go out on loan somewhere for game time next season.

And Cantwell is strolling this league 

We do need to look at what we’ve now got up front. That’s now number 1 priority at the moment. 

Was the prosecution deliberately botched?

it was incompetent at best.

Just hope we’re doing the right thing if we’re going for Butland. Can’t help thinking McCrorie would be the better option for No1 and we get some young goalie from Europe to push him for the No1 spot

1 hour ago, craig said:

But you are just scare-mongering.  There is absolutely zero evidence that this is the case

Many players nowadays have such clauses in their contracts. A good agent will always ensure that is the case.

You are correct here is no evidence Cantwell has such a clause. But also no evidence he hasn’t.

My faith in our former DoF wasnt great 

Can’t help feeling that this could be the straw that breaks the camels back for city. 
Both the EPL & UEFA have got it in for them and now Newcastle too

1 hour ago, Graeme Ro55 said:

Could you expand on this a little please Rab ?

In the clause there could be a set figure at which once a club bids the clause is activated & player gets allowed to speak to the club and signs if they agree terms.

He’s erratic but useful to have & he’s got pace. One minute he can be a match winner but the next minute he’s a liability. He’s that type of player 

Cantwell’s influence & importance is growing at Rangers since he signed. It’s just a pity we didn’t get him at the beginning of January instead of at the end of January.

My big concern is that our ex-DoF has put some sort of release clause into his contract making it easy for someone to sign him from us

Shouldn’t be too long b4 the yahoos come out & state that they’ve sold over 50k ST’s following us saying we’ve sold over 40k.

Ive always wondered about their ST figures since we were in the lower leagues & they seemed to be playing in a half empty stadium at home but claimed their ST sales weren’t affected without us in the top division 

I thought if we could have scored just after HT today we could have gone on & taken 4 or 5 off them.

That would have put down a marker for next season for them…🤠

I do think they realise that Cantwell is a class above anyone in their MF. After a slow start here, probably due to lack of games at Norwich, he’s now beginning to show his class. 

Much needed result for MB more than anything but pleased to win although it is obvious we lack the quality up front particularly in the wide areas.

And unbeaten at home in the league (so far) this season

23 minutes ago, BEARGER said:

Must be approaching £30M e.g. 45000 x £600(average?) = £27M

Let’s just hope this money & the rest is better spent than it has been in recent years 

How much revenue do we get from ST’s? Any idea?

Looking like Leicester & Southampton will be 2 out of the 3 relegated.

16 minutes ago, alexscottislegend said:

We seem to be assembling a squad to play in a league that we don't play in - the EFL Championship. And your Dowells and Karlan Grants are not playing for promotion-chasing teams. Don't like where this is going; I want to qualify for the Champions League.

 Neither did Aribo. Neither did Bassey.

The EFL championship is vastly superior to the SPFL

Players who are established in that league should have no problem in the SPFL.

We have to spend our money better.

That means getting signings which are less risky.

Getting to the CL group stages will be very difficult to do via CLQs regardless of who we sign given our budget 

I’d doubt we’ll sign Van Veen. He’s 32 next month with no resale value 
Josh Maja who’s soon to be a Bosman & currently at Bordeaux would be a better option in my view. Only 24 & played in the EPL & championship 

42 minutes ago, Scott7 said:

On the basis of ninety minutes against the Spiders, I’d sign Cameron from Dundee.

Don’t think the SPFL championship is the greatest league to judge a player 

1 hour ago, BlackSocksRedTops said:

Is he out of contract at Motherwell?

He’s contracted til 2024 

49 minutes ago, Sutton_blows_goats said:

 

Would be a great signing. Been on loan at Birmingham & is their POTY.

£2m sounds a bit on the cheap side though. Multiply that by at least 2 or maybe 3 or 4

10 minutes ago, BlackSocksRedTops said:

Might not be the answer but we need to box clever in the transfer market. Focusing on the English Championship seems awfully myopic IMO.

Getting players from the English Championship gives a better idea of their capabilities than other leagues