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Embarrassing and predictable.

We don’t do clean sheets when Goldson isn’t playing

Have a look at over the city. Several examples. It’s a good time to buy at cut price. We do it too.

I think it’s telling how long it has been since there has been serious interest in them though. August 2020 were the last good bids for Morelos and Kent, and the only ones that we know of I think. No bids as they entered their final 12 months is very telling. I'm sure we wouldn't haven't been that hard to deal with.

That’s a false dilemma. We’ll never know what would have happened if we’d sold him when we had a chance. I think we’d have replaced him with a better player.

Those things are used too much to excuse failures over the past years though. Celtic have been comfortably the best team in Scotland since 55. That's a huge failure, regardless of the EL run.

£1m was obviously a huge bargain. But people forget that he’s been paid well over that a year in recent years. Remember how many pay rises he got over the years. What was frustrating was that the club didn’t seem to see the downward trend with Morelos since 2019, or that his form was unusually good in 2019 and that it was a great time to sell (like Bassey). I think he’s a player who peaked early in his career.

What a wonderful day. Never thought some of those players would leave. It should have been a long time ago and hanging onto them cost us in more ways than one. Big opportunity for Beale to put those freed up wages to better use now!

We’ve played 15 games without Goldson this season and only had 2 clean sheets in those games. One against Championship side. And our league record is 5W 2D 3L. Which is shocking, dropped points more often than not. Hopefully tomorrow is different. Looking at that record, it’s hard to say that anything has cost us more than poor recruitment at centre half last summer.

Hopefully the wages are much reduced so that it’s a better deal for us. I’d prefer if we’d moved on and given the place in the squad to someone who will be available for more of the season.

What percentage of Rangers signings are even a success? Less than 50% anyway.

Is this a “trust the experts" comment? What's the point in a forum if we can't discuss potential signings?

I think people are assuming he’s strong because he’s [snip] tbh. His stats show he is actually pretty weak, very low success for duels when he has the ball and low across the board for defensive stats. I’m not overly convinced on this one, but his goals and assists stats are good and for little to no fee it does seem shrewd.

Where are these stats from? Is it comparing with MLS centre mids only? And what’s the sample pool? I find the stats hard to believe. From a very brief look at YouTube, he doesn’t look that good to me. Something not right about his technique. The guy from Aston Villa/QPR looked better.

That was a very good listen. On the face of it, it looks like he brings fresh ideas, initiative and enthusiasm to the role.

So much said about the players they had missing. They had 5 who played in the SF who didn’t start. We had 6. Yilmaz, Souttar and Matondo have barely kicked a ball all season. Our squad has been ravaged by injuries all season, Tom Lawrence another example. Colak looked like he could fire us to the title until injuries ruined his season. Tillman has been one of our best players this season and was injured yesterday. But Tom English has to mention the big caveat of the missing players 2 or 3 times in his article.

I hope not. Purely because that would be an absolutely insane decision. Swapping the man who never misses a game with John Souttar.

I still think we should sign Tillman. He’s scored as many from midfield, at the age of 20 and in his first ever season of senior football, as Morelos this season. With better players around him he’d be the first Rangers midfielder to score 20 a season at this level since Barry and de Boer.

I’ve been back and fore in Jack, but I've reached the stage where I just want all the injury prone players gone so that we can get more consistency in our starting 11.

Our record of conceding goals when Goldson isn’t in the team continues to be astonishingly bad.

More or less secured 3rd place and European group stage football, while beating us. That's as good as it gets for them.

Kent, Morelos, Jack, Helander, Arfield, Davis and McGregor's contracts expire. None should be renewed and that's a huge amount of money freed up to re-shape the team and bring in fresh blood.

Cantwell is that magic creator that people thought Kent was. Great signing.

Threat up front is still a big difference for me. They have natural goalscorers in those positions and we don’t.

The goal should have stood, and Beale can’t legislate for those massive errors. Not a bad performance but an incredibly frustrating and disappointing outcome.