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Agreed. And that now seems to be the recruitment team's policy, seeking out cheaper, younger players that can be improved and sold on. Koppen has said that he expects 90% of signings to see Ibrox as a staging post. I am OK with that, has served Ajax well for decades

Good points, well made. Lone striker doesn't suit Dessers' game as he is poor at bringing others into the game and works better with a support striker nearby.

Right or wrong, clubs are happier to sell in the summer because there is more time to source a replacement. January is a desperation buy/sale, or about getting fringe players some playing time. we might not get as much money for him in the summer, but won't have to pay as much for a replacement. He is worth more than he was last summer, so fingers crossed we can still get £4M for him. And Shankland will be free this summer instead of the more than £4M he was last summer and he would also still cost money now.

But if you want to get rid of our top scorer in January, you need a near guarantee you can improve the squad - Koppen cannot give that. Sell him in the summer instead.

I think we are top league scorers in the first 15 minutes of games

Trouble with that is that maybe Koppen and co have looked and found that a guaranteed 20 goal a season striker who offers more than Dessers costs more than Dessers. Igamane did not come with a guarantee, he was a gamble which looks like paying off for us

Put Dessers in their team, he would have the trophies. Put Kyogo in ours and he wouldn't. SuperAlly would not have won with this team last few years. Neither has the UK's highest ever scoring defender

I will agree with that, yes. Like I said, I am no Dessers fanboy, just don't like the abuse he tales when he is our most reliable source of goals in the last 10 years

Just listened to Sunday's podcast and feel the need to make a point. Since summer of 2023 Kyogo has scored 31 goals and has just been sold for £8.5 million Danilo has scored 12 goals at a cost of £6.5 million Dessers has scored 40 goals at a cost of £4.15 million and a lot of fans want him chased out of Ibrox at a loss. I am not a blind Dessers fan, but imagine where we would have been last 2 seasons without him? He is much more reliable than poor Danilo. In 6 seasons Morelos, who I loved, scored 18, 30, 29, 17, 18 and 12 goals. So Buff, at his peak only, has been better than Dessers but averaged under 21 goals a season. there is a very good chance that Dessers will pass that this season We cannot blame him for the price paid, he had no say in that and all footballers want to earn as much as they can. Yes, he misses a lot of chances. In the last 3 games he has only scored 5 when he should have had 6. The last person to miss this many chances was Ally McCoist, and he grew on us. I was never part of the Ally, Ally, gtf. I believe we should support our players.