The Rangers Winter 2025 Transfer Rumours and Deals - Thread

[Rousseau 10,806]

15 minutes ago, CammyF said:

Could you name three players currently playing in Scotland (outwith Celtic and within our very limited budget) who'd immediately improve our starting 11 (don't think I could).

 

Or are all these signings from Scotland be "projects" for the future like Bailey Rice? 

This is like your use of stats: make up your own extremely narrow parameters to suit your position. And then you'll move the goalposts. 

 

We will not be recruiting 'exclusively' from Scotland. 

 

I think it's good that we're looking to explore the Scottish market.

 

We just picked up Barron, we picked up Souttar a wee while back, Ryan Jack even further back. Mordor picked up some orc from Dundee. I would have taken Nesbit and McKenna. Miller and Cameron are highly thought of, just like Doig, Hickey and Ferguson over the last couple of seasons. 

 

There are good moves to be made. 

[CammyF 8,370]

2 minutes ago, Sutton_blows_goats said:

Lyall Cameron on a free end of this season, Lennon Miller, Slobodan Rubezic is better than Robin Propper, wouldn't mind Ross Graham from Dundee United who is on a bosman end of '25. Also I'd take Shankland on a free (we all know you hate him you don't need to mention it ) 

 

Its not always about improving the starting XI. We play lots of games, get lots of injuries. Have the ability now to make 5 subs per game. We need to build a squad.

It's imperative that we improve our starting 11. Have you watched us this season?  😀

 

If these players or on a free, all well and good, but Cameron will have a choice of clubs (who'll be paying better wages and offering a larger signing on fee).

 

Lennon Miller is way out of our price range. 

 

Ross Graham wouldn't get 10 games a season for us.

 

I don't hate Shankland just don't get what people see in him. He's had 3 good seasons in his career and has reverted to type. Boats sailed. 

[Rousseau 10,806]

I quite like Malachi Boateng of Hearts. 

 

His numbers, as a pure midfield destroyer, are great. Aerial duels, ground duels, interceptions, ball recoveries are all top percentile in the league in midfield. 

 

Only 22.

 

I'd like a destroyer, but is it a priority? Probably not. 

 

We could pick him up when they get relegated.

[CammyF 8,370]

16 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

This is like your use of stats: make up your own extremely narrow parameters to suit your position. And then you'll move the goalposts. 

 

We will not be recruiting 'exclusively' from Scotland. 

 

I think it's good that we're looking to explore the Scottish market.

 

We just picked up Barron, we picked up Souttar a wee while back, Ryan Jack even further back. Mordor picked up some orc from Dundee. I would have taken Nesbit and McKenna. Miller and Cameron are highly thought of, just like Doig, Hickey and Ferguson over the last couple of seasons. 

 

There are good moves to be made. 

What narrow parameters? Do you think there are 3 players currently playing in Scotland who could improve our starting 11 that we could afford? 

 

It's a simple question. 

 

There is no point of suggesting players who would possibly improve us (Lennon Miller as an example) that we can't afford. 

 

 

[CammyF 8,370]

8 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

I quite like Malachi Boateng of Hearts. 

 

His numbers, as a pure midfield destroyer, are great. Aerial duels, ground duels, interceptions, ball recoveries are all top percentile in the league in midfield. 

 

Only 22.

 

I'd like a destroyer, but is it a priority? Probably not. 

 

We could pick him up when they get relegated.

I think a destroyer is a priority, just behind a number 9 and Boateng is worth watching. 

[Gribz 906]

Seriously dont want Shankland. That shipped sailed. Perhaps when he was younger at Dundee Utd there would have been room for him to come and improve but not now. Scotland in general have a problem with no good strikers available, Shankland cant even get ahead of Che Adams in the national team and Adams is awful. 

 

If we are looking at cherry picking players in the Scottish Premiership Its more concerning as to why these smaller clubs are using their resources better with scouting and managing to get players ahead of us. We shouldnt be using the other 10 clubs as feeders without the odd exception, especially with foreigners (of course we have had successful signings over the years like Novo).

 

 

[Devil's advocaat 1,617]

7 hours ago, Gribz said:

If we are looking at cherry picking players in the Scottish Premiership Its more concerning as to why these smaller clubs are using their resources better with scouting and managing to get players ahead of us. We shouldnt be using the other 10 clubs as feeders

We've always bought talent from other Scots clubs, and always will, for many reasons. Clubs sign players at 9 years old, many of these kids don't make it, peak early, and many of them don't mature til they're beyond what we'd consider 'young', so there will always be loads that slip the net, no matter how good your system is. I'm not for a minute saying that our system couldn't be better btw.

 

The difference from us buying the likes of Davie Cooper, these guys can go south nowadays and get paid a fortune for playing in the championship, that option wasn't as evident back in the day, so it's harder for us to sign them now, especially in our financial predicament.

 

Anyway, there's a lot of straw manning going on in this chat, at no point did anyone say we'd be exclusively shopping in our backyard, so lets move on.

[Gribz 906]

59 minutes ago, Devil's advocaat said:

We've always bought talent from other Scots clubs, and always will, for many reasons. Clubs sign players at 9 years old, many of these kids don't make it, peak early, and many of them don't mature til they're beyond what we'd consider 'young', so there will always be loads that slip the net, no matter how good your system is. I'm not for a minute saying that our system couldn't be better btw.

 

The difference from us buying the likes of Davie Cooper, these guys can go south nowadays and get paid a fortune for playing in the championship, that option wasn't as evident back in the day, so it's harder for us to sign them now, especially in our financial predicament.

 

Anyway, there's a lot of straw manning going on in this chat, at no point did anyone say we'd be exclusively shopping in our backyard, so lets move on.

Yeah I get the purchasing of youth players as we cant no team can look at every youngster in the country, my point was more towards established first teamers and more so foreigners. You will get the odd gem that appears from abroad that goes under all top clubs radars and thats fine but Im all for giving our own youth a chance. I think of the 92-93 team and how many Brits made up the core of the side. 

 

 

[Frankie 8,651]

13 hours ago, CammyF said:

What narrow parameters? Do you think there are 3 players currently playing in Scotland who could improve our starting 11 that we could afford? 

 

It's a simple question. 

 

There is no point of suggesting players who would possibly improve us (Lennon Miller as an example) that we can't afford. 

 

 

It's an interesting and difficult question but the starting XI condition is somewhat of a fallacy since most teams rotate fairly significantly nowadays.

I'd suggest Lyall Cameron would be an obvious target and there are a few more worthy of consideration such as Clarkson, Penrice, Shankland and Mitov who could definitely become a factor over the next three windows. There are various others that we could argue we should have picked up earlier in the last 3-5 years.

 

Generally though, right now, there aren't many who would immediately come in and improve the first XI per se. Improving the squad is a fairer consideration and Luke McCowan at Celtic has shown a player need not be young to be a decent addition either.  

 

We are struggling financially as a club so are going to have to be a lot cleverer in the market going forward. I'm quite pleased at the signing of Jefte and Igamane and there's no doubt as much as we need to explore other continents, we need to have our finger on the pulse domestically too.

[Devil's advocaat 1,617]

I don't think the players need to be ready to walk straight into our team and improve it either, the key part is identifying players with potential to improve, and your own coaching staffs ability to do that.