rbr 1,266 Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 Like Danny Wilson. Sorry GS , I was thinking about older players , not ones still with years ahead of them , but I take your point . Last year every player ally signed was old and had no value 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig 5,199 Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 (edited) Sorry GS , I was thinking about older players , not ones still with years ahead of them , but I take your point . Last year every player ally signed was old and had no value Lets look to the future, not the past Everything about Warburton seems to be the polar opposite of McCoist the manager...... thankfully. Edited August 5, 2015 by craig 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craigy1881 79 Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 from the DR The Ibrox side are eyeing up a potential season-long loan deal for Tottenham's teenage forward Nathan Oduwa. Spurs are ready send the 19-year-old out on a temporary basis so he can gain some first-team experience, with Rangers and Coventry City two possible destinations. Oduwa impressed during a loan spell at Luton Town last season and has also attracted the attention of Dutch clubs AZ Alkmaar, Roda JC and Feyenoord. The England youth international has yet to make his first-team breakthrough at Tottenham. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEARGER 1,830 Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Jamie Murphy heading our way, allegedly. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannochsidebear 2,429 Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Who is he? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Germinal 27 Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Ex-Motherwell, Sheffield Utd of late, on the fringes of the Scotland team from time to time, excellent player. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the gunslinger 3,366 Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Good player. A winger. Huge rangers fan. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 3,815 Posted August 8, 2015 Author Share Posted August 8, 2015 Jamie Murphy is listed as a centre forward, with the ability to play on either wing. 25 years, 1.78 m; Contract at Sheffield United till Summer 2016, "valued" at Euro 750k Played 58 games last season, scoring 12 goals and assisting another 12. Played mostly left midfield or left winger for Sheffield United in the League. http://www.transfermarkt.de/jamie-murphy/profil/spieler/51730 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 3,815 Posted August 8, 2015 Author Share Posted August 8, 2015 (edited) Jamie Murphy heading our way, allegedly. Who's the source, if I may ask? Nothing on FF thus far. EDIT ... RangersMedia rumours on facebook and twitter that we are after Jamie Murphy from Sheff Utd Sheffield United turned down £500k for him from Brighton last month. Would rather spend that on Stevie May to be honest, especially if Rotherham are bidding £300k for him. And this from 2012 EXCLUSIVE: SPL striker keen on switch to Rangers DIEHARD Rangers fan Jamie Murphy will "seriously consider" dropping down the divisions to play for the club this summer. Motherwell forward Murphy, who is out of contract at the end of the season, has again been linked with a move to Ibrox. The Gers are currently unable to sign any players due to a 12-month transfer embargo imposed by the SFA for failure to pay taxes. However, they will be able to register free agents from September 1, 2013. Gers boss Ally McCoist and scout Neil Murray have identified several targets who could boost their threadbare squad next season. And Murphy, who was linked with a move to the club he supported as a boy at the start of last season, is believed to be one of them. His former team-mate Bob Malcolm believes a move to Rangers would interest the 23-year-old –even though he would be playing in the Second or even the Third Division. The former Gers ace said: "At the start of last season Blackpool were keen to sign Jamie, but he decided to stay at Motherwell. "But I think to progress his career he now needs to move on. It is inevitable. I know he is a Rangers fan so going to Ibrox is something that would interest him. "I don't know what Jamie himself is thinking. Maybe he doesn't want to go down to the Second or even the Third Division. Promoted stories "But a few years ago Rangers bid £1million for Mark Reynolds and Motherwell knocked it back. He eventually moved to Sheffield Wednesday. "Jamie was at the club when that happened and I think that he will realise that getting the chance to move to Rangers might not come around again." Malcolm spent nine memorable years at Rangers and believes Murphy, who he played with during a spell at Motherwell in the 2008/09 season, would be a success in Govan. And he is convinced that having to drop down the leagues would not deter him – as was the case with former Hearts and Scotland Under-21 winger David Templeton back August. Malcolm said: "The Rangers fans would love Jamie; he is direct, is good in the air and he scores goals as well. He is skilful and very talented. Share article "He has got all of the attributes you need to be a success at a major club like Rangers and I am sure he'd do well there. "He has another 10 years at least at the highest level. If he joined Rangers he wouldn't be playing in the lower leagues forever." http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/13243938.EXCLUSIVE__SPL_striker_keen_on_switch_to_Rangers/ Edited August 8, 2015 by der Berliner 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian1964 10,761 Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 Aidan Smith: Ballsy Hibs right to rebuff Rangers Hibernian Football Club, pioneers of European competition, floodlights, electronic scoreboards, undersoil heating, shirt sponsorship, quality match programmes and the perennial, multi-faceted Scottish Cup cock-up, celebrated 140 years in existence last week. But only cynics, masochists and Hearts fans would claim that it has taken them from 1875 until now to stand up to Rangers. Nevertheless, is there not the tiniest sliver of truth in that? Obviously Hibs haven’t surrendered meekly to Rangers every time. Every time they’ve played, every time there’s been a contentious issue off the field, every time the Gers have coveted a Hibee. But Hibs’ stance on Scott Allan has surprised many, a reaction surely drawing on some past events and previous cave-ins. Warburton has sounded increasingly silly by suggesting the bids have been random acts in which he’s had no part When Rangers made the first of their 42 bids for Allan – all right, three, but it feels like many more – and were quickly rebuffed, the general opinion was that the Ibrox club would get their man eventually. If you’ve seen Rangers conduct their transfer business these past few years – and, hey, it’s the story of our lives to some degree – then you could envisage only one outcome. But, just to give the viewpoint some clanking authority, professional Rangers legends lined up to confirm that, oh yes, the player would be running out in light blue before too long, his breastie fair swelling to the beat of Tina Turner murdering the soft-rock. You can’t miss the legends. They’re usually brandishing boards promoting ticket deals and suchlike. In the debate over Allan’s future it seems we’ve never seen so many outsized cards. If Alan Stubbs, the Hibs head coach, was older than 43 he might have wondered: “What’s this, is It’s A Knockout coming back? Are all these guys wanting to play their jokers on this outcome?” If he was even older his reaction might have been: “Who’s getting wheeled out next? Don ‘The Rhino’ Kitchenbrand?” Stubbs has watched this synchronised display of sagely nodding. He’s listened to the ex-pros repeating to each other: “Allan’s coming. How can he possibly stay?” He’s said his bit when asked, although not in response to every spit and cough on the matter because that would have been tedious. And every day that’s passed – and crikey there have been enough of them this summer – he’s appeared more and more impressive. Right away, he said he wanted to keep Allan, that the player was important to Hibs beating Rangers to the top spot, and that obviously in the circumstances, there was no way he’d be sold to the big rivals. This was viewed as Stubbs laying down a marker, not just to Rangers but to the Easter Road board. Sell him and I’ll be off. Oh dear, said some. Stubbsy doesn’t know the lie of the land, doesn’t know how Scottish football works. Allan will go in this window and then he’ll have to walk. Right now, that marker looks as prominent as those art installations dotted along the M8. It’s as if he’s commandeered that Teletubbies horn and shouted: “No deal. Not while we can beat you to the title. Not while I’m manager here.” Except Stubbs has stayed tremendously cool during the whole affair. His reputation rests on him keeping his star man for one more season but he’s never wavered. He’s kept calm amid the frenzy of it all, only getting irked after that third bid to say he thought Hibs’ position in a saga given a decidedly “one-sided” slant deserved more respect. He didn’t quite say that he thought the timing of Rangers’ bids had been “mischievous”. “You’d have to ask Mark [Warburton, the Ibrox manager] and his directors,” was his response. But I’ll say it for him: mischievous was what they were. The first bid came just before the Petrofac Cup tie between the teams. The third as Hibs were preparing for their Championship opener against Dumbarton yesterday. The maximum Rangers could have got from their efforts would be the player, Allan in the No.10 jersey, which had been kept back from the general allocation. But there was a minimum, too: disruption to the preparations of the team they’re most worried about. Allan has lodged a transfer request; he’s told Hibs he wants to go to Ibrox. Rangers will now be hoping that if Allan remains a Hibee, for the time being at any rate, that he won’t quite be able to embarrass them as he did in the 4-0 thumping last Christmas. By this Christmas Rangers may well have their man, but they’ve displayed a pronounced lack of class in the affair. They told their fans they’d get him “whatever it takes”, only to weigh in with puny bids, their third being well below Rotherham’s first. Warburton has sounded increasingly silly by suggesting the bids have been random acts in which he’s had no part and can’t control. Does he really think anyone believes he’s not played a decisive role in this process? Some of the Govan faithful, while generally welcoming their new manager – and in other respects he’s made a fine start – have been frustrated by the failure to act big like the Rangers of old and stop mucking about with mimsyish offers. And they’ve been perplexed that the club don’t appear to have a plan B, that they were prepared to risk starting their league campaign on Friday without Allan’s dynamism and dazzle in the playmaker role, albeit that Warburton seems to have bought well elsewhere. Allan gets crowds out of their seats. In his substitute’s cameo in the Petrofac, he took a pass with his back to a Rangers player, flicked the ball round him one way and nipped the other way to retrieve it. The best piece of individual skill thus far in this young season, Ibrox would love what Easter Road has been appreciating for a while. Maybe Rangers expected Allan to arrive on that trusty conveyor belt which has delivered so many bright young things to the Old Firm down the decades. Certainly we can think of a few Easter Road regimes which would have made this more likely to happen. Allan’s move could still happen, but only when Hibs’ chief executive Leeann Dempster and her impressive manager are powerless to stop it. Rangers have been irked by Hibs disclosing details of the bids and how the small sums would only have reached them in smaller instalments. The diddy teams of Scotland are not supposed to display such ballsiness. Rather, they’re expected to roll over and accept the inevitable. It hasn’t quite happened this time, a tiny victory of sorts. http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/spfl-lower-divisions/aidan-smith-ballsy-hibs-right-to-rebuff-rangers-1-3853403 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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