05 Oct 2026 19:38:17
Rumoured that Villa will come in big for Raskin in January.
05 Oct 2026 20:06:59
January should carry a premium on top of any fee.
I'd be asking £25m and see what offers come in from that. I don't mean we will get it I'm simply saying if there are enquiries that is the number I'm giving clubs.
05 Oct 2026 20:14:49
Stevie, clubs will pay more in January, wouldn't be letting him go until the summer anyway, we've a league to win mate.
05 Oct 2026 21:11:31
Not sure I believe this, he was available in the summer so why didn't they sign him then? They have got loads of midfielders.
05 Oct 2026 21:27:19
Shouldn't even be thinking of selling in January ,
As Star says, a league to be won, possibly a extremely important one at that.
05 Oct 2026 21:39:58
This could coincide with what I heard about Lewis Ferguson signing in January.
05 Oct 2026 22:10:31
Money talks lads and £25m would do it for me.
Go sign Lewis for €17m and I'd be happy with that.
06 Oct 2026 05:52:17
Thought a fee had been set for him/us to at least consider, we can't just bang 25m on him like last time round, how did that go??
It will be addons that might make us money for Raskin imo.
06 Oct 2026 06:29:11
Bar I believe in starting negotiations at a high price if your a seller club.
The rest will IrI'm itself out.
I also think that an epl look b to sign a Belgian international starting mf in January window ahould come with an extreme premium bro
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is it not at least worth asking for it before we wrote it off.
06 Oct 2026 08:13:53
Ferguson to replace Raskin? Is this going to win us anything? Massive downgrade imo, hopefully the Drago learning or being coached to play that pivotal midfield role rumour is true.
06 Oct 2026 08:41:58
Ferguson a massive downgrade on Raskin, port, Raskin is clearly better than i think, Raskin moving to Villa is a bad move for his career, which I'm kinda sure Villa won't even be interested in him anyway, Raskin is a good cm, but we're talking about him like he's better than he is, imho, he's not even the best cm at Rangers.
06 Oct 2026 08:57:36
I know who you're eluding to My star, when you state that Nico Raskin isn't the best central midfielder at Rangers. 🤔 Does the best CM you're meaning have the initials of DN by any chance mate? 🤔🇬🇧
06 Oct 2026 09:16:16
Obviously sws, I've seen Neil having far more outstanding games for Sunderland than i have Raskin for Rangers, mate, and I've never seen Raskin perform as well against Celtic like Neil has in both games.
06 Oct 2026 09:45:03
Raskin was brilliant against Celtic star. Maybe some truth in the Aston Villa rumour as John mcginn is getting on a bit so is I think they have Ross Barkley as well so two central midfielders needing replaced soon. I wouldn't sell unless we are at least 7 points ahead but as you know money does talk so anything could happen if it's big bucks.
06 Oct 2026 10:03:40
Yes he's had many good games against Celtic, Wallace, I wouldn't be selling him in January either, him and Neil are building a very good relationship, Villa will buy better than Raskin, mate, Raskin is a good player but not as good as some think, he was getting mentioned not long ago on here with cm's at a different level.
06 Oct 2026 10:12:42
If Dan Neil had a Belgium granny, he wouldn't get near that Belgium midfield. In fact, if he had a Scottish granny, he wouldn't get in the Scottish midfield. Raskin started against France. Rest against Turkey.
Came on against France in the other game. Started against Italy. He'd be a great addition to most squads in the EPL.
06 Oct 2026 10:24:08
Raskin himself said in his head he was ready to leave and would see what happens next window. As long as he keeps attitude right until then. He would walk into most EPL teams.
06 Oct 2026 10:44:18
Mph, Neil will prove to be a far better player for Rangers, Raskin would struggle getting on the Sunderland bench, this he'd walk into most teams in that league is nonsense, clubs in the top half of the league, he's been in the stand more than on the park, imo.
06 Oct 2026 09:49:01
I don't get the hype that we can't sell Raskin either. There seems to be a fear that we will crumble without Raskin. He's a good player but Neil is better and I don't think Ferguson is worse than Raskin either. Ferguson has done very well and has been a standout in a far better league with teams like Juventus showing interest.
06 Oct 2026 10:07:38
Neil and Raskin could just have the makings of a title winning partnership here, I see him going in summer, but if it's January then I would believe Ferguson is a certainty to come, I feel either it's a done deal or Raskin stays, nobody will be selling a top player while challenging for a title, that's crazy stuff, Raskin hasn't been great but he can be in the right shape and with the right players around him.
And the manager is someone who knows how to handle players, I would be extremely surprised if Raskin goes, unless as I said, that a deal for Ferguson is already done and even then I would think that would be summer, but you never know.
06 Oct 2026 11:00:08
I really think Raskin is a late bloomer he is only going to get better and better still got his baby face and he's 25 boys a player and better than half the guff in the Premier League.
06 Oct 2026 11:01:28
It will be funny star if Sunderland buy him 😂😂😂.
06 Oct 2026 11:06:50
Wallace, Sunderland could be doing with another cm, mate, but they'd sign someone better than Raskin.
06 Oct 2026 11:07:26
how would we make anything on Ferguson if we paid 17M for him, is he even worth that?
06 Oct 2026 12:01:36
Neil couldn't get a game for Sunderland in the EPL. In fact, Ipswich didn't even want Neil for their EPL campaign after apparently starring on loan with them in the EFL.
In fact, not one EPL side came in for Neil. He's a Championship level player who has upped his game after a rank rotten start to his Rangers career.
06 Oct 2026 12:02:29
Without wishing to end up putting down one of our players because of the comparisons, if Neil is so much better than Raskin how did we get him for free with little competition while Raskin is expected to raise between £10-20m+ depending who u believe? I think there's plenty of clubs in EPL who he'd play regularly for, maybe not the top 6-8 but any of the rest.
06 Oct 2026 12:15:44
I think Fergie is better than Raskin hands down.
Geesa if or when we buy Fergie it's not to sell him on. That will be a figurehead signing and a notice of intent to others if what we're about.
Fergie for me would be an upgrade. Even if only slightly it's all about small percentages.
06 Oct 2026 11:29:32
Big if but, if we sign Ferguson, there would be very little concern about future profit and very big plans for captaining the club and winning titles for next 5 years at least.
This is what needs to happen, Rangers need to sign a few players who buy into the club and are intent on winning every single league title for the foreseeable future, one title then lost again is not what this club is about, it isn't what we were m WE WERE CHAMPIONS AND PREMIER CLUB IN THIS COUNTRY!
This needs to be recovered and players like Ferguson could just be key to that plan, So, If he comes it won't be about selling for profit, it will be a statement of intent, and he would be the middle piece of the new jigsaw.
06 Oct 2026 13:33:04
I agree if we do sign fergie then he won't be getting sold he will finish his career here and hopefully win a lot of league trophies. We will build a team around him for sure. If we make say 15 million for Raskin we only paid 1.5 mil for him that's 13.5 mil profit put a couple quid to it and you have Lewis Ferguson for next to nothing.
That's what we will do guaranteed.
06 Oct 2026 13:38:33
Really don't understand the love for Ferguson and I'd hate to see Raskin go in January, he's vital to the team just now and in my opinion it would massively hinder our chances of winning anything this season. As far as Ferguson goes, 17mil is way too much for us to spend on (again only my opinion) a decent but not brilliant player🤷.
Watching these last few Scotland matches has confirmed it as far as I'm concerned. 17mil could easily get us an upgrade on Raskin which Ferguson isn't, sorry but I just don't see what others obviously do.
06 Oct 2026 13:45:19
In case some don't realise we have spent vast sums of money in the 2 of the 3 windows and will need to make some of it back in sales soon as FFP will kick in.
Spending £17 million on a player with no sell on value is reckless especially one who honestly is nowhere near as good as some think he is on here cause if he was he wouldn't be linked with only and wouldn't even be having a conversation for a move. If we are honest, if he wasn't called Lewis "Ferguson" and related to ex players then no one would be talking him up so much. Would much rather Dragojević play if Raskin is sold.
06 Oct 2026 13:53:55
Makings of a good squad right now, if we want to win this league, we keep this squad till the summer and improve one or two in January. Suicidal to change anything unless we want to gift Celtic the league again and disrupt the re build going on and the cameraderi we are finally building?
06 Oct 2026 14:13:32
Stevie there's not a hope in hell we will
Get 25m for Raskin mate. Besiktas were offering us a loan to buy with 12m euros in the summer and we nearly accepted it😂
Shows the clubs valuation is no where near what we on here think.
06 Oct 2026 14:23:36
Question for the guys who think Ferguson is a better player than Raskin, honest opinion. Do you think Ferguson would get a start for Belgium? I don't think he even makes the squad.
06 Oct 2026 14:38:15
Clear you don't rate dan neil the way some of us do on here MPH and that's fair enough but i think you're being far too critical of the guy and for me he's a quality midfielder 👌🇬🇧.
06 Oct 2026 14:45:33
Wishy if it's Villa that be my price. Any English team will be charged extra for a player as that's what happens when they sell one.
Very other country charge more when selling too.
Plus it's January so can charge bit extra again.
My point is to maximise what any club is willing to pay by starting the negotiations
Heavy.
Why would u just start at 12m if that's what u want? You'll end up with £8.
06 Oct 2026 14:52:37
SO Ferguson will cost us 3.5Million per year plus wages. what guarantee will Ferguson give us to win the league every year for those 5 years and bring in European revenue.
i don't believe Rangers are in the position to spend 4.5M plus on one player per year with no guarantees.
06 Oct 2026 13:07:09
Geesa. Why do we have to make money on Ferguson?
06 Oct 2026 15:24:29
We need a couple players who will be here for next 5 years to try and implement a consistent winning team season on season.
We can't only be about buy and sell we need to have a couple who will be here for 5 years
McCrorie penrice (Lewis F) Curtis maybe Dan Neil.
06 Oct 2026 15:35:19
Cool mph, you'll soon see Neil is a being a better footballer than Raskin, and younger will more experience, Neil was on the bench for Sunderland, Raskin wouldn't struggle getting that, you've clearly got Raskin a better player than he ever has been, yes he is good player, but remember you mentioned him is the same sentence as Anderson, now that blew me anyway.
06 Oct 2026 15:45:47
#would.
06 Oct 2026 15:48:42
Also isn't Coventry an EPL club right now, because Lampard wanted Neil.
06 Oct 2026 16:10:08
Mystar. My post was asking a question of the forum, as to whether Ferguson's arrival and Raskin leaving would be a detriment or upgrade to our current squad. I never mentioned anything about Dan Neil who is the best midfielder we have imo. I offered my opinion on LF and NR and stick by what i said, NR is a better player than uncle Barry's nephew by a country mile.
I am basing my opinion on having watched Lewis play in, and play for Scotland. It may well be that Italy suits him better, as their fooball is not as phronetic as our's, but for me, LF is not the answer. For £17m i think we could do a lot better.
06 Oct 2026 16:51:26
Port Glasgow Bear,
Nico Raskin in my opinion is a very good and important player in our midfield.
The problem is that he has the ambition to move on to the next step of his career and in doing that, we would want to implement the player trading model and make maximum profit.
Not every player would be signing with the player trading model forefront in our minds and Lewis Ferguson in my opinion has equal but different qualities.
If we can hold onto Nico until the summer then I'm absolutely delighted but if the inevitable happens and he leaves I don't want to relay on a 20 year old Dragojavic to bring home the title, even although I have very high hopes for him as a Rangers midfielder.
Lewis Ferguson makes sense to me if we loose Nico Raskin if we have ambitions of winning the league and the answer to your question neither a detriment or upgrade but player with similar but different qualities.
06 Oct 2026 16:52:34
Port, Ferguson and Raskin not much in it for me, mate, definitely not a massive downgrade like someone said earlier.
06 Oct 2026 17:07:09
Stevie I'm being realastic we aren't getting that kind of money for Raskin. He's going to end up leaving for nothing. Teams clearly aren't willing to pay what we want. If he leaves with two titles on a free I'd take that the now😂.
06 Oct 2026 17:56:28
Just read a bit on Ferguson, important player for his manager, most accurate passes in his league this season.
06 Oct 2026 17:59:44
Wishy fair enough mate time will tell bud 👍.
06 Oct 2026 19:30:56
We might not get £25m if we can't get him to sign a new contract selling him is the only option strengthening needs to happen Lewis Ferguson isn't the best option when we need to strengthen in more than one position.
06 Oct 2026 19:52:33
Not too bad a stat at all, Beale.
06 Oct 2026 19:53:11
Niko hasn't ever been great for Rangers, that's all that matters, he's had years now, still not great, but Neil may just be the guy that drags him up.
06 Oct 2026 20:38:33
Stevie, if we get anywhere near 25m + addons for Raskin, I would bite anyone's hand off.
We tried that price already, it didn't fare well, as one of the big issues is where he wants to play, (I'd suggest AV is not in his top 5!), he had longer on his contract last time round, we will be lucky to get 12 imo.
and I wouldn't be surprised if he hangs around for a league title and walks for nothing.
06 Oct 2026 21:05:58
Bar I totally understand that mate let's just try get the maximum is all I'm saying.
06 Oct 2026 22:02:14
Tasking better than Neil and Neil is better currently on form than Ferguson that's my opinion all 3 are different kind of players Raskin goes about his work so easy imo.
06 Oct 2026 22:07:00
After watching Ferguson very closely during this tedious international break I'd say please no . Bang average player . Not worth £7 m let alone £17 m . The romantic idea that he will / should follow in his uncle's footsteps ought to be abandoned .
07 Oct 2026 05:20:24
I honestly hope mystar is right but to put that label on him based on one or two games is crazy he was ok in parkhead game but not amazing people are bigging him up to more than he is confidence is high and that's great but others have been great innold firms and average innother games let's just hope boys start was adjustment period and he's finding his feet.
07 Oct 2026 06:24:07
Weneed, had more than 1 or 2 good games, we must watch different games.
07 Oct 2026 06:32:42
Raskin started AND finished the game against France..they made 5 subs and if ye check the standard of players that came on and to leave Raskin on the pitch clearly states that he's firmly in the plans of the manager states in itself that Raskin is well worth a hefty fee to us .my opinion it should be 25 million and then the add ones.
How long does he have left with us?
07 Oct 2026 08:24:34
MPH, irrespective if dan neil had a belgium granny and wouldn't get near the belgium team doesn't mean he can't/won't be a better player for Rangers than nico Raskin mate and i rate Raskin myself 🤔How many times do we look at picks for international level and state there's better players not getting picked, it gets said regularly mate 🤔.
07 Oct 2026 10:32:13
we don't need or want players who will come in and give 5 years with no sell on. every player in Rangers will be potential sales its the only way we will make decent money.
we will not buy a player for 17M with no sell on, my opinion i know but that's suicidal as a business.
07 Oct 2026 13:26:05
Geesa, that's simply not true.
Ask folk more ITK than me about the transfer strategy mate and I guarantee u that we are aiming to have a core of players in the first team group who will be here for a reasonable duration of time.
Think Celtic with McGregor, tierney and the likes a few years back.
Ehl or anyone else care to comment?
07 Oct 2026 13:27:53
Cb I add also it's euros not pounds and lastly his value is going to be right down come summer when we are more than likely going to sign him rather than January.
You're probably talking about 10m pounds.
07 Oct 2026 14:11:38
Geesadodathat,
U sound like one of them btw not that I know for a fact u aren't , but u sound like them - entitled.
How can you sit there and demand guaranteed titles and European success before we sign a player.
Ur mad bruv lol.
07 Oct 2026 14:51:47
Helicopter Sunday, His dad played for Rangers long before his uncle, But I do agree is he's not worth 17 million. 🇦🇺🇬🇧.
08 Oct 2026 08:34:15
Guys on here stating we shouldn't be paying £17million to sign lewis Ferguson why 🤔 Because i've no doubt if we do sign lewis Ferguson, we won't be paying near £17million to do so, there's no chance we're paying that 😲🇬🇧.
08 Oct 2026 08:34:22
That's some minutes reading that that I'll not get back.
08 Oct 2026 09:14:50
Sorry fork 👍lol.
08 Oct 2026 10:23:35
Lol, the amount of debate that turns into nitpicking over this is bonkers, if he comes then great, if he doesn't we have able enough players in the building.
08 Oct 2026 12:14:57
Star how is Neil more experienced than Raskin. He's definitely not mate Raskin has played in the Belgium league is a Belgium international been to World Cup played a ton for us has a lot of European caps to his name. Neil has no where near the experience Raskin has.
08 Oct 2026 14:34:39
Yeah fork I get what u mean it does stir a lot of controversy mate.
But , that's what the site is about mate opinions and debates.
If we thought we'd keep Raskin for 5 years then I'd see folks point saying no to Lewis but the big thing is once he's here we likely have him for 5 years or more and we won't get that with others of his quality.
08 Oct 2026 18:21:28
Too true bud.
09 Oct 2026 09:55:19
Just had a look Wallace, Neil has played around 40 games less than Raskin.
Nowhere near his experience?
Neil captained Sunderland from league one to the EPL.
09 Oct 2026 10:08:41
Both are very experienced in different ways lads and in fact is a good mix to have.
Drago is also an experienced young player when u look at his appearances and his captaining of his boyhood club at 19.
I feel we need another cm in now in January as with Devlin injured just now we're one suspension or injury away from a major problem.
10 Oct 2026 07:53:51
As the OP stated villa possibly coming in with big money for nico Raskin in january, i can also see clubs coming in with big money offers for our south african centre half makhanya in january ☹️I hope to god, we can keep makhanya at least the full season and beyond if we can 🙏.
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