The Pre-Summer-2017 transfer rumours and hearsay all inclusive Thread

[der Berliner 3,808]

The DR's sports gang quickly morphs into another click-bait bunch. (Well, literally speaking.)

 

They whip something up which may or may not have something reasonable in it, present it as fact and see if there is any response. If there is, they will be lauded has having some leaks and genuine information. If there is not, it will be swept under the carpet as if nothing has been said at all ... and whip up something else. All the while waving with the "freedom of the press" card or the like.

 

Meanwhile, someone on FF noted:

 

Originally Posted by Albertz Was King

I can tell you right now the club have not produced a "list" or suggested prices.

 

It's a complete and utter lie.

 

He might be getting info from an agent and he might have an idea who is going but there is no such list.

 

For what it's worth Jackson gets his information from a certain agency that Envelopes and Warburton know well. Funny that isn't it. Considering before that Weir constantly leaked to him like the big snakey bitch that he is.

 

Key Sports Management have a lot to answer for.

[Darthter 542]

We will never sell for £500k - why has his value dropped £1.3m in the space of 9 months or so?

 

Ipswich could easily pay the money we bought him for.

 

Because he has don't very little to warrant a £500k price tag, never mind, £1.8m.....

 

Bottom line is that we paid WELL over the odds for him in the 1st place. The decision would need to be made as to whether to keep a hold of him & hope that he can do the business, or cut our losses & move on....I favour the latter.

[Darthter 542]

£400k for Waghorn, is low I'd say....I would think £750k - £1m.

He did well last season scoring 28 goals, with 15 this season - that's a decent (not great) record.

 

£1m+ for Tav seems fair

 

Anything we can get for Crooks & Windas is a bonus

[Waltersgotstyle 307]

Because he has don't very little to warrant a £500k price tag, never mind, £1.8m.....

 

Bottom line is that we paid WELL over the odds for him in the 1st place. The decision would need to be made as to whether to keep a hold of him & hope that he can do the business, or cut our losses & move on....I favour the latter.

 

£1.8m gets you squat in England. I would argue that £1.8m is fair price for a player of his calibre. Ipswich are just chancing their arm.

[Darthter 542]

£1.8m gets you squat in England. I would argue that £1.8m is fair price for a player of his calibre. Ipswich are just chancing their arm.

 

If that's the going rate for a "player of his calibre"....we should expect:

- £15m for McKay

- £5m apiece for Crooks & Windas

- £7.5m for Kiernan

- £10m for Tav

- £10m for Waggy

 

In 2 seasons with Preston NE, Garner scored a total of 6 goals from 47 apps - the price tag was vastly inflated!!!

[der Berliner 3,808]

At the end of the day, there is but one thing which is important: does PC want the players we have under contract right now for next season or not. Following on from there, the price tag might be high or low, but at the end of the day, everyone's got a price. The DR's "evaluation" is not any better or worse than anyone's on here, and either will be rather subjective.

[Darthter 542]

At the end of the day, there is but one thing which is important: does PC want the players we have under contract right now for next season or not. Following on from there, the price tag might be high or low, but at the end of the day, everyone's got a price. The DR's "evaluation" is not any better or worse than anyone's on here, and either will be rather subjective.

 

Agreed....It may simply be a case we'll take what we can get....

[ian1964 10,761]

Rangers give English clubs price list for available players as Pedro Caixinha gets set for Ibrox fire sale

 

Barrie McKay, Joe Garner and Martyn Waghorn all up for grabs as the Portuguese looks to clear the decks by getting eleven players off the Ibrox wage bill.

 

Rangers have launched an end of season fire sale in an attempt to gut their first team squad.

 

Record Sport understands a list of available players - along with suggested price tags - has been circulated to clubs and managers across England as boss Pedro Caixinha begins his cull of last season’s flops.

 

No fewer than eight of the players Caixinha inherited from former boss Mark Warburton have been put on the market with a ninth, Michael O’Halloran, being offered to Motherwell as makeweight in a proposed player plus cash deal for striker Louis Moult.

 

Winger Barrie McKay is the most expensive name on the list with Rangers inviting bids of £2m for the 22-year-old who broke into the Scotland squad 12 months ago.

 

But even that is a huge drop in the valuation that Warburton placed on McKay’s shoulders during the January transfer window when a price tag of £6m was discussed after the Englishman was informed of interest from German outfit Red Bull Leipzig.

 

The fee for James Tavernier has been set at £1.25m which is actually an indication that Caixinha has been reasonably impressed with the right back.

 

But, even so, he will be prepared to do business at a price which is more than one million pounds more than Tavernier cost when he was snapped up from Wigan along with Martyn Waghorn in the summer of 2015.

 

Waghorn himself is available for £400,000 after failing to convince Caixinha that he has a future at Ibrox.

 

Striker Joe Garner, who was reported to have cost £1.8m when he signed from Preston in August last year, is also available for what is being described as a ‘reduced rate’.

 

Youngsters Josh Windass and Matt Crooks also arrived as a pair of free transfers last summer from Accrington Stanley. Rangers will sell them back across the border for fees of £150,000 each.

 

But 26-year-olds Rob Kiernan and Harry Forrester will both be up for grabs for free having failed to make any impact under Caixinha.

 

And O’Halloran - a £500,000 signing from St Johnstone 18 months ago - is being encouraged to accept a move to Motherwell as part of the proposed deal for striker Moult even though his £5,000 a week wage is likely to be more than halved if he does agree to move to Fir Park.

 

With veteran defenders Clint Hill and Philippe Senderos already released at the end of their contracts, Caixinha hopes to move on a full team of players from last season’s squad as he plots for a huge summer overhaul.

 

Keepers Wes Foderingham and Jak Alnwick look set to survive the purge along with full-backs Lee Wallace and Lee Hodson and centre half Danny Wilson.

 

Midfielders Jason Holt and Andy Halliday do not appear to be on the list of men put up for sale and Caixinha also wants to keep Niko Kranjcar and Jordan Rossiter, both of whom spent most of last season on the treatment table after being signed as part of a summer recruitment drive for the Premiership.

 

Veteran striker Kenny Miller has already put pen to paper on a new deal for next season and young gun Joe Dodoo - who has three years left to run on his contract - also seems to have done enough to win a place in the manager’s plans.

 

It is understood that the Ibrox club are making good progress with several of their signing targets.

[MacK1950 2,399]

DR "understands" and have "understood" their usual veiled comments/headlines to sell their tabloid.

[ian1964 10,761]

Pedro Caixinha’s route to land No.1 defensive target Bruno Alves could have hit a road block.

 

The Portuguese manager wants the 35-year-old to spearhead his Rangers revamp this summer and Caixinha’s countryman is reportedly keen for a move to the Ibrox giants.

 

But reports in Turkey claim the Cagliari centre-back has been 'offered' a return to Istanbul, where he starred for Fenerbahce in 2013-2016.