DMAA

1 minute ago, Bill said:

Neither can I but Ryan Kent has had an irrational army of detractors ever since his price was announced

In case I am included in this, I was a "detractor" long before this. I agree he has started the season well and has earned his place in the starting 11 at the moment. Whether he is replaceable with £10m+ in the bank is another matter though.

1 hour ago, RANGERRAB said:

Can’t believe some of the negativity about Kent from our support 

In seriousness though, it is just the nature of the game of football. People see different things in players. I have been equally surprised by the negativity towards many of our players through the years. To give just one example, I defended and backed Barisic when it seemed 95% of our support wanted him gone after the loss at Rugby Park.

Goldson, Tavernier and Jack have been pilloried by sections of support regularly in the last couple of seasons and I have defended them too. Kent is just another player who people see very different things in, albeit I will happily admit that the vast majority clearly rate him very highly, including the Gaffer.

2 minutes ago, RANGERRAB said:

Can’t believe some of the negativity about Kent from our support 

Don’t worry, it’s just me ?

Gutted Aribo is missing games. He has been a really key player.

1 hour ago, RANGERRAB said:

The likes of Croatia is where we should be looking for players. England is unaffordable 

Yes. For context,

https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2020/07/22/report-leeds-and-everton-must-pay-over-7m-to-sign-next-modric/

Gojak is a quality player.

1 hour ago, CammyF said:

We'll there is little point in selling him then. A circa £3M profit (less if there was a sell on clause) isn't the business model we require to fund strengthening the squad or boost our finances.

 

Well we have reportedly rejected 10. But 20, in my opinion, is fanciful. 
 

Don’t forget we signed Barisic for £1.5m a couple of years ago, a Croatian international. We get preoccupied with English transfer fees when we should be more concerned with transfer fees in leagues like our own. 

1 hour ago, CammyF said:

However, £10M for Kent is way too low and we shouldn't be entertaining anything led than double that.

Nobody in their right mind is paying £20m for Kent

Fantastic

8 minutes ago, CammyF said:

Lille President was on Talk Sport this morning and confirmed they had a £16M bid for Alfedo rejected by Rangers. Said they are now well covered in the forward areas but may return with an improved offer for Alfredo. 

I’m not sure we will get a better bid than that. This is drawing out as I feared.
 

There was one guy on FF saying we are moving on an EPL striker today though, which would suggest movement on Morelos. 

9 hours ago, Franc Ergs said:

 

I wouldn't even be speculating on anything sourced from the Scottish Sun

 

Normally agree but it is certainly unusual for a journalist to tweet it out as fact under his personal account.

7 hours ago, JFK-1 said:

He has missed around 18 months of the past 3 years alone across 4 separate injury periods. Was also out for around 9 months in the year prior to that.

5 year contract with no playing clauses coming up then ?

18 minutes ago, the gunslinger said:

If we sell at 10 million we won't be making a profit. 

How do you know though? 

2 hours ago, Rousseau said:

This story seems to have come out of nowhere. 

 

Unless @DMAA has leaked it... ? ?

34 minutes ago, ian1964 said:

I wonder how much Liverpool would get for the sale of Kent?

Hopefully nothing, £7m was a huge fee 

17 minutes ago, ian1964 said:

I know that!. why should we sell our best players unless we sign better?. Kent, Morelos our back 4 (any perm) right now are our 1st pick players, selling any of them weakens the team, unless we sign better! that is simple!.

Of course unless any player wants to leave and then we get the price the club wants!.

Anyway, every chance it is a lot of garbage.

The journalist seemed very confident, but we'll see. If the bid is a serious one, a move to the EPL (and EPL wages) would be too good to refuse for Kent so we would be forced to negotiate.

Personally, I think as a club our aspiration is to become a conveyor belt of talent, a selling club, who back our scouts to find replacements. We have invested heavily in our scouting.

11 minutes ago, ian1964 said:

Then why would Leeds be wanting Kent if there is better/cheaper out there?

The footballing world isn't that simple. Clubs regularly replace players they have sold with better players for less or the same money.

21 minutes ago, Franc Ergs said:

I presume you'll be offering to drive him there yourself 

? if the money is good, I would trust Ross Wilson and our scouts to do a good job of replacing him. That is all I'll say.

This is a bit off topic, sorry. But when we were linked with Lovro Majer I looked him up, and he really looked like the kind of centre mifielder we could do with for these games. A bit like Aribo, he possesses that bit of flair that is needed to open teams up, either by beating a man in the middle of the park, or just by creating space with quick twists and turns, or from just possessing the vision and passing ability to pick out through balls and long diagonal passes.

There was a guy on Follow Follow who claimed to be a data analyst guys working for an English team, he had was tasked with looking into Majer specifically, but he said he knew Rangers were very interested and had been in contact.  

Fake account

1 hour ago, Rousseau said:

It's still more of a 4-2-2-2, than a 4-4-2, for me. 

 

The style of play is a delight to watch. 

 

If you're advocating that, I'm with you!  

 

I think his other favoured formation, 3-4-1-2, would actually suit the players we have. We have the double pivot, we have wingbacks, Hagi as #10, and now a couple of forwards. We'd just need to draft in another CB. 

I would call it a 4-4-2 based formation. You know from the type of player I like and the type I don’t like that I favour technically gifted players. And most of the players I don’t like, or I think are overrated, it’s because I think they are not technically gifted enough. So it’s not that I want to play old fashioned football. In reality, 4-4-2 is often a slight variation on the formation already used and I would only favour it if it suited the players at our disposal better. 
 

For example,

                              mcGregor

Tavernier      Goldson    Helander     Barisic

                     Aribo                 Jack
         Kent                                          Hagi

                        Roofe       Itten

That is a very attacking lineup. On the right Kent would operate as a traditional winger aiming to play one-twos and get to the byline,  but on the left Hagi would be all about coming inside with quick one-twos in to the striker on his side, following his pass and vacating the wing, leaving a gap for Barisic to overlap and get to the byline. A big part of what the midfielders would be trying to do is get a pass in to the strikers feet and follow it, hopefully getting the ball back in a much more advanced position. Obviously when out of possession pressing is easy and we would win back possession very quickly because pretty much everyone we play would have no option but to lump it. Our play would be fast, high tempo and all about getting the ball into dangerous areas quickly. 
 

These are just basic ideas but I think you can see it would make good use of our players, allow them to play to their strengths and it wouldn’t be about playing it long to a big guy. And I am only saying it should be used at times, not necessarily all the time. 

2 hours ago, Rousseau said:

That was around ten years ago; perhaps more so. 

 

Here, in Scotland, it's still the favoured approach. 

 

There are even some advocating that Rangers should adopt it. Dinosaurs...

 

*cough* @DMAA *cough* ?

 

 

I give you Julian Nagelsmann

https://themastermindsite.com/2020/06/06/julian-nagelsmann-rb-leipzig-tactical-analysis/

2 hours ago, Rousseau said:

That was around ten years ago; perhaps more so. 

 

Here, in Scotland, it's still the favoured approach. 

 

There are even some advocating that Rangers should adopt it. Dinosaurs...

 

*cough* @DMAA *cough* ?

 

 

how dare you

McCrorie to Aberdeen all but confirmed now, picture has been leaked. 4 year deal, a loan for this season I think so he can’t play against us but there’s an agreed fee after that.