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*Souttar, Goldson, Balogun, Sterling, Lundstram, Lawrence, Cortes, Matondo, Sima, Danilo & Rice all OUT* Me: Also me:

Another thing I noticed: Our average xGA with Yilmaz: 0.67 Our average xGA without Yilmaz: 1.37 Coincidence?

Our xG (blue) and xGA (red) over the course of the season. Clement comes in at the first St Mirren match. You can see a clear upturn in the xG, pretty much over the course - along with some fluctuations. Our xGA has been good, until the last 9 games, when it starts creeping up.

I wouldn't bother interacting with trolls.

I assumed 'better planing', 'better recruitment' was your KPIs, which are not KPIs as they're not measurable. A KPI is a specific target. You've just presented some vague aims, which is fine - no one would disagree with them. My point is that we can't judge the success of 'better recruitment' without a KPI to measure. The club could release general goals but it's pretty meaningless because fans will disagree with other fans, and then the club will judge it to different standards again. A basic fitness KPI would be: cover an average distance of x km per game. Fans can't get this info to judge the success or not - and then they'll be swayed by their feeling of a player. I also don't think the club should be disclosing that kind of stuff; I feel like it's disclosing state secrets!

KPIs have to be measurable. We can't judge 'better recruitment', 'better planning', etc., if we don't have something to measure it by. This highlights the problems in conversing with fans on these issues: we're so emotional - rightly so, it is Rangers - that we reduce complex business and operational practices into vague desires.

I might form my own breakaway transfer thread: The Super Summer Transfer Thread.

Have we got a buy-back clause on Mayo? Just asking. #FeelLikeShitJustWantHimBack

I would love that but I'm not sure how appropriate it is? I don't think businesses should disclose their plans for all their competitors to see. I'd like some KPIs for fans to measure and track, though.

Like I said, I prefer our structure. There's is based on individuals. Their CEO and Manager have too much power. It will collapse when they go or get it wrong. We've got a better structure going forward. We can slot in numerous individuals if they're not performing and keep the structure unchanged. (That's not say say we we've been successful: it's just a comment on the structure itself.) I will concede their player trading plays a big part in their financial strength, but I still believe it's mainly down to easy CL money. It's a house of cards, IMO. We saw how it quickly fell apart when Lennon was appointed. (They got lucky with Ange, but as I predicted, they regressed when he left.) The boardroom failures were the managerial appointments (GvB and MB). Other failures stem from that, IMO.

We'll see what Koppen can do. I believe he's more of a recruitment specialist. (Wilson was more the operations side, which I've said before.)

I don't think it's all doom and gloom. We're making progress behind the scenes. The commercial side is improving. I much prefer our footballing structure to theirs. They're in a false position after 10 years of easy CL money, not because they're well-run per se; they've had it easy. We've got our recruitment wrong in the last few windows and haven't sold when values were high - mainly because we didn't have a DoF with more control and left it to a manager. The Beale appointment was a mistake, too. We should have won the league this year, despite poor recruitment, letting them have a head start after Beale's poor start, and a squad decimated by injuries. We've got a good opportunity this summer with a lot of high-wage players out of contract.

We definitely should be signing more young players. Watson won young player of the year. Get them signed, and loan them back for a year or two.

The stats give it to Butland. Dessers then Sterling round up the top three.

I've moved your post here as this has become an unofficial transfer thread. Until @der Berliner gets his finger out his a*** and posts the Summer Transfer Thread!!

I've said it elsewhere but I find that sort of fee (£21m) completely unrealistic for a 31-year-old 'keeper.

Rangers 3 - 1 Dundee FGS Silva

Rangers vs Dundee

Fixed that for you.

What are your thoughts, folks?

I'd take Barron, then loan him back to Aberdeen for two years. The others... Nah.

Points added.

Bayern's buy-back clause for Tillman is €35m!! Jeez...

That's a lot of assumptions about recruitment rather than being critical of Clement per se.