boabie 230 Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 All we can do is try to copy what they're doing. Get young players in, develop them & sell them onto the bigger richer leagues because there's no money in Scottish football as WS infamously warned when he stepped down in 2011. We've now got younger player such as McCrorie, Morelos, Windass, Foderingham, etc whom we could sell. Not many but it's a start. And if we get Tyler Roberts that's another. What we mustn't do if keep getting players in their thirties who are well past their best & have no resale value. The ones we've had these past couple of years have been mostly disappointing. We must learn from this. That was what Warburton was supposed to do. Unfortunately our support will not stand for some youngster learning their trade. We demand a league title. That's why we end up with a squad of overpaid journeymen. When we went down to the bottom division we should have played a team of 16/18 year olds. Imagine their experience now. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 3,747 Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 You can't help but wonder their freakish luck. Luck that some EPL first gave them millions to get vanDijk to england, and now that Liverpool are willing to pay Soton 75m (SEVENTYFIVE) for that player, with the Yahoos getting 10% ... Virgil van Dijk: Liverpool to sign Southampton defender for world record £75m http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/42496637 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the gunslinger 3,366 Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 It helps when you have the likes of alan brazil acting as an advertising agency for your players on national radio. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERRAB 3,677 Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 That was what Warburton was supposed to do. Unfortunately our support will not stand for some youngster learning their trade. We demand a league title.That's why we end up with a squad of overpaid journeymen. When we went down to the bottom division we should have played a team of 16/18 year olds. Imagine their experience now. Warburton wasn't what he appeared to be. Questions should have been asked why Brentford seemed keen to get rid off him before he came to us 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig 5,199 Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 You can't help but wonder their freakish luck. Luck that some EPL first gave them millions to get vanDijk to england, and now that Liverpool are willing to pay Soton 75m (SEVENTYFIVE) for that player, with the Yahoos getting 10% ... Virgil van Dijk: Liverpool to sign Southampton defender for world record £75m http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/42496637 How is it lucky that some English outfit paid them millions for Van Dijk when he is now moving again for 75 million ? It isn't luck at all, it's good scouting. Sometimes we need to accept that and try to replicate it instead of sticking our fingers in our ears and shouting "they are just lucky". 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig 5,199 Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 It doesn't matter that they won't get the sort of money being quoted. What matters is that they will make a bunch of money out of Dembele because they have a clear strategy to do so and their record at it is so much better than our that it hardly seems something to ridicule. I absolutely hate it that we willing provided such unquestioning support to a board of directors who are far below the calibre required to run a club like Rangers. For so long as these people are calling the shots, we will continue to flounder in the dark and stumble from disappointment to disappointment. I know Paul Murray, watched closely his performance at 3i, and I can tell you I wouldn't let him run a tap. Specifically the Dembele situation... it is one we couldn't replicate if we wanted to though. They are paying him something like 35k a week in wages. They took a punt and it looks like paying off. Had we done it and it not come off we would be in even deeper shit. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuGers 477 Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 How is it lucky that some English outfit paid them millions for Van Dijk when he is now moving again for 75 million ? It isn't luck at all, it's good scouting. Sometimes we need to accept that and try to replicate it instead of sticking our fingers in our ears and shouting "they are just lucky". It is certainly lucky that anyone would pay that for him - he is worth nowhere near that. That is in the same region as the Luiz to PSG WTF. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 3,747 Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Klopp is being ridiculed over here in Germany for splashing that amount of money on a defender who is no-where near worth it. It is plain madness that somesuch is being sanctioned ... and it is utterly lucky that it is the Scum that profits from such madness. They also point out that Soton has now taken up Euro 240m from Liverpool in recent years, Ricky Lambert, Adam Lallana, Dejan Lovren, and Sadio Mané moving North. Soton the Porto of England? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERRAB 3,677 Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Specifically the Dembele situation... it is one we couldn't replicate if we wanted to though. They are paying him something like 35k a week in wages. They took a punt and it looks like paying off. Had we done it and it not come off we would be in even deeper shit. They were supposedly trying to punt Dembele to the EPL for £25m in the summer but no one was interested. Why would anyone pay crazy money for a forward who's scored just 4 goals in the SPFL premiership this season ? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig 5,199 Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 They were supposedly trying to punt Dembele to the EPL for £25m in the summer but no one was interested. Why would anyone pay crazy money for a forward who's scored just 4 goals in the SPFL premiership this season ? Will probably still pay off. 500k transfer fee and 35k a week is 1.75 mill. So even over 2 years that is 2.25 mill. They will get tons more than that, even if they don't get Dembele dollars 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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