buster.

Interesting ! You can understand the club being reluctant to letting him go for nothing and instead seeing how he develops but at the sametime, you can't imagine that being in our first team and one year only nudges 'the can' down the road. I'd try to send him on loan for 6 months to a top tier side and if he does well, offer an extension prior to December.

As we go through the tournament,........we can take a look at some of the fans. Russian and Saudi Arabia fans.

If they were to fail to qualify for the CL and lose their shop window for flogging players. they'd have to think twice about the level of wages they are paying. At the moment they have assets they can cash-in on but once they are gone, better for us.

Can't really say much as I didn't see it but 5 goals in a WC match aren't to be dismissed lightly. The least it will give them is confidence, momentum, GD boost and a decent chance of making the next round.

Stick your house on the French scoring 3 goals +.......

Didn't watch the game but the Russians have started with a bang,.......... interesting ! Always good to see the hosts do well. Good to see my favourite Russian footballer, Cheryshev get a couple. He was the player that Real Madrid played by mistake in a Cup-tie and got booted out, sending my wee Spanish team through, Cadiz.

I'd agree, the team doesn't get an improvement in quality What it represents for them is fourfold. - stability (not a loan) but it costs them plenty - mitigation in the risk when spending 9M as he is a known quantity - investment with mind to sell for profit - more likely to sell Dembele

That might get Messi !

I'd prefer Antonella Roccuzzo........

...........Within financial limits.

If there were Money Trees lining the perimeter of Hummel Park then go get Skrtel for Morelos, pay him 50K per week and then go spend another XXMillion on the empty forward line. However, I'd have thought we'll need to spread the money available more throughout the team. As far as Morelos is concerned, I think he'll go onto have a distinguished and rewarding career, he has the tools, is still very young, has been successful in two foreign countries. However, whether that means we'll see the best of him next season is another thing. I tend to think it may be better to sell and invest the proceeds in a replacement that suits SG&staff and the way we'll play. .

Agreed, I think it fair to say that they aren't good enough to be in the team that we are looking/hoping to build and it's a positive if they are perceived that way by SG.

Just to mention,...I've made a small edit.

A potential defensive line-up can be guessed upon but we're wasting our time up the other end of the park until we get a better idea of personnel.

It's probably more informative reading the latest report from BDO as a whole.......... https://www.bdo.co.uk/getmedia/47092375-62e2-4389-a62b-0ecb735e38dc/RFC-Annual-Progress-report-to-30-April-2018.pdf.aspx

The programming that the computer is fed already has so many details that must be adhered to, that it is a fallecy to infer it is a random selection.

The board has gone prediction daft Is the sun out in Scotland ?

Promise little, deliver more..................realism is better than shouting we've solved all our problems and it helps expectation management.

Best way of reacting to the general dismissal of any challenge............say nuthin !

It's an interesting development that would seem to have the general OK from the club to filter news/info through these sources and let the various MSM generally flounder with second hand delivery, other than the occasional Andy Devlin/Scottish Sun piece. On one hand you'd have thought it might be more financialy beneficial to do it via an RTV daily update/newsdesk or at least work it into an official channel but then perhaps there is more benefits in establishing a third way of getting news out. One that is generally trusted and is empathetic with other Rangers fans. It's not CQN like but it seems like a step towards it.

I'd warn all not to listen to Craig, he's a deeply placed Fifth Columnist looking to play a long game (but as short as possible) to have Kevin Thomson installed as manager and his son as club captain.

They (RM) considered it the lesser of two evils. ie. had they not released it and it had leaked once the WC was up and running it would have been considered worse by many.

As per speculation in Spain last night, Fernando Hierro (already in Russia working for the Spanish Federation, DoF type) will now take the team for the WC.

By his butcher ?

If Morelos was to go, it would leave a gaping hole up front that would need finance to fill (eg. a transfer fee for Alfredo). We are certainly building from the back,......