Rangers Rumours Archive January 06 2017

06 Jan 2017 19:15:00
I've been hearing young Rossiter will not play again this season. Has anyone else heard this? What the hell is wrong with him and why haven't the club announced any injury or medical condition . Why the big secret?

06 Jan 2017 21:02:14
because this is the latest disaster with this years signings whether its tue o not that's why liverpool let him go as easily but i could have wrong info

06 Jan 2017 21:02:29
Twitter is wonderful not

06 Jan 2017 21:45:34
While I wouldn't put too much faith in these rumours and would hope that it is rubbish anyone that knew Rossiter at Liverpool knew that he was a talent but that the lad had injury problems with some Liverpool supporters even suggesting that it was down to training methods!

In any event the signings made as a result of our quality Head of Coaching, McParland have not exactly been mind blowing and while he was finding players that have yet to set the heather alight Celtic went out and signed Dembele for £500k! Perhaps our Board has not set its sights as high as they should have but that is becoming the standard under King!

06 Jan 2017 22:25:44
Gers are too quiet when it comes to rossiter. he's went from 3 weeks away from a return to 3months out something not right.

07 Jan 2017 00:55:19
Tbf, tomusa, dembele was never close to being within our current price range. The fee was £500k which we could've afforded easily enough and we could also have agreed to him recieving a a healthy percentage of a future transfer fee as celtic have apparently done but we couldn't have matched his signing on fee (which I'm led to believe was hefty) or his reported £32k per week wages. Just not in our current ball park unfortunately. Celtic will receive a huge fee for him eventually imo but there won't be anywhere near as big a profit in it as we will be led to believe once he gets his cut etc.

07 Jan 2017 04:02:33
It actually annoying me that people are calling Dembele the 500k player. He was out of contract and signed on a small development fee.

07 Jan 2017 09:25:54
Spart17, I don't disagree with what you say but we were led to believe that McParland was some form of "sorcerer's apprentice" that would unearth at least one or two quality players. Sadly I am still waiting although, even quality players on Bosmans cost money and if King does not have the ambition to bring in quality that will make a difference and a massive profit for the club then we simply won't acquire their services!

Who knows, perhaps now that he has sold one of his South African Businesses to a US Company we might see some investment!

07 Jan 2017 09:39:19
But he cost 500k so he's definitely a 500k signing.

07 Jan 2017 10:53:01
It was a 500k development fee.

06 Jan 2017 12:48:20
Warburton supposedly told board he wants 3 new players but expects only to be able to afford one and wants that to be toral. He better be some player then that can defend score goals and create goal because we seriously need it

06 Jan 2017 13:15:54
Think he'll get another.

06 Jan 2017 13:21:53
That's poss mate but I think we will sign 3 players, but I doubt we will buy them, it will be loans till the end of the season imo

06 Jan 2017 14:50:24
He'll get at least one more after Toral, that's a guarantee.

He wants at least two, he'll get at least two. Barton wages for one thing and even had Barton worked out and stayed, odds would've been strong we'd still have money to bring in a coupe of loan players and/ or pre contracts.

These type of stories pop up every window in regards to the club's finances. Like everything else, it's pointless paper talk, it's discussed for a while by the fans and then forgotten come the end of the window, when we'll likely have about three new signings through the door.

06 Jan 2017 17:33:02
He won't get the quality he needs and that will continue while King is the major shareholder. We currently need a minimum of three players and that is provided we retain both Crooks and MOH.

Players like Halliday are just not good enough for this league but are clearly favourites of Warburton. They will take us no where!

06 Jan 2017 17:59:34
I agree with the bottom part of your post tom, but it's not Dave king that's holding rangers back, it's bloody Ashley, I'm surprised people can't see this

06 Jan 2017 18:51:16
We had the same discussions in the summer window, the January window before that and it'll be the same come the summer.

Where's the money, we haven't got the money, then days later we spend 1.8 million on a centre forward when most thought, had Waghorn not been injured in the first game we didn't even need any more strikers.

The players that are considered favourites by the manager, will up their game when the club gets in a couple of decent quality players on loan, (with a view to permanent deals) .

06 Jan 2017 19:02:32
Tom I'm beginning to think you don't rate Haliday!

06 Jan 2017 20:56:54
Fraser aird was and is total dog rubbish terrible player why on earth would we want him back!

06 Jan 2017 21:54:14
GMW, the guy is not and never will be a holding midfield player. I had high hopes when we signed him that he would be a decent player for us, playing in his own position but low and behold we fail miserably to get a holding midfield player and we try to make Halliday into one and destroy him and at the same time weaken our defence since he gives them no cover. He has gone backwards at a great rate of knots. He lacks guile, his tackling is 'wishy washy', he plays far too many sideways passes and back passes and they tend to be on the short side.

In the position he is playing you are correct, I really don't rate him! He is not alone in that respect. I don't believe that Holt is good enough for this league but at least he has time on his side to develop and I struggle with Waghorn and Tavernier, the latter of whom I really thought would have grown into a Premier League player. Unfortunately he is going backwards as well!

06 Jan 2017 22:34:09
You can't say these players aren't premier league players when we are still sitting second in the league and its past the halfway stage. Not good enough to compete with Celtic at the moment is where we're at but to say the players we have aren't premier league players is absolute nonsense.

07 Jan 2017 09:38:28
Rick, I guess you are correct given the pathetic standard of the SPL outwit Celtic. Indeed you would be hard pushed to find a sixteen man squad from all the other clubs together that could challenge them right now. What is more, there wouldn't be many Rangers players in that squad!

We are second by default because the other teams are more rubbish than we are but we might be sitting third if Aberdeen win their game in hand! What is more we might start to slide down the league if we don't make any acquisitions and Clubs like Hearts and even St Johnstone, strengthen.

Outside the MCCoist / McDowall Era, where we were a joke!, we have the poorest assortment of so called football players that I can remember. There are perhaps two or three of our players that are not currently injured or over 30 that are even worth considering for a Rangers jersey, the rest are not worthy to call themselves Rangers players.