08 Jun 2026 12:16:05
Dan Neil has been offered a leadership role at Rangers.
08 Jun 2026 12:47:57
What does that actually mean, Fourlads? Captain, vice captain, leadership group? It's a role that would suit him. I'm thinking he's coming with news imminent.
08 Jun 2026 12:56:53
The Sunderland Echo piece last week mentioned it.
Our leadership group current is woeful/was woeful.
We need new characters.
As an aside, fair bit of chat Barron will be Serie A bound soon.
08 Jun 2026 13:01:21
Captain/Vice Captain. Neil is currently on holiday considering his options.
08 Jun 2026 13:03:10
I'd prefer if we signed him to play. 😜
08 Jun 2026 13:18:54
Is it still Bologna sniffing about WTS.
08 Jun 2026 13:18:58
I'm not sure someone signs only if they are made captain or whatever. Maybe as a Brucie bonus, does a captain get more money for being a captain?
08 Jun 2026 13:24:10
Vice captain maybe? I'd want Lewis as captain.
08 Jun 2026 13:26:25
geesadodothat, They get the honour of being Club Captain of Glasgow Rangers!. 😁💪🇬🇧
08 Jun 2026 13:40:33
Fork. Yeah, and a few others.
Hopefully can use him in a deal for Ferguson.
08 Jun 2026 13:41:27
He is proven Captain material - could be a Shankland/Neil combo. Would be happier with either as Capt if Neil signs. Don't want any player from this last season as Captain.
08 Jun 2026 13:52:25
Be more experienced players with leadership qualities about them signed this window.
08 Jun 2026 14:16:06
Cheers WTS. 👍
08 Jun 2026 15:26:15
If, and of course it's a big if, we can sign Lewis Ferguson 🙏 and can hopefully sign Dan Neil, then our new Rangers captain should be one of Lawrence Shankland, Lewis Ferguson or Dan Neil, and one of the other two made our vice-captain. 🤔 These 3 players have experience of being captains, and two of the three are also diehard Rangers supporters. 👍 🇬🇧
08 Jun 2026 16:41:59
Friend just texted me and said don't be surprised with a lw being signed very soon, Issa Soumare, he just said played in France, I've just checked him up, he's out of contact, he never even said that, don't know where he's got that, hardly hear anything myself, could be something or nothing.
Anyone heard similar?
08 Jun 2026 17:13:25
I remember DJ getting the captaincy so they could pay him more cash without disturbing the wage structure. It was his second spell, and not altogether successful!
08 Jun 2026 17:15:58
That's not a bad shout, Sir Walter, but I reckon the new captain hasn't even been signed or mentioned yet.
08 Jun 2026 17:42:41
Letting Barron go is absolutely criminal. "We want homegrown talent" - sells homegrown talent. I argued on a post maybe a month ago, because someone posted we were looking at sending Curtis back on loan too. Mental business. 🤦🏻♂️
08 Jun 2026 17:43:09
Star, see the lad Soumare has 8 goals and 5 assists in Ligue 1, involved in 41% of Le Havre's goals and valued at €8m. Sounds decent.
08 Jun 2026 17:56:47
Huey, never heard of him, mate.
08 Jun 2026 18:21:33
Did see his stats when having a look at him.
08 Jun 2026 19:03:15
Issa Soumare would be a decent signing if true, My Star. He has also had a few shots of the arm band nearing the end of last season, so would also tick the leadership box. He seemed to flit between playing wide left and as a CF when required, not unlike the way Maswanhise was utilised at Motherwell last season.
Last but not least, his injury record is almost spotless, missing only 5 games, all in the 24/25 season. I'll be pasting that name into YouTube right now.
08 Jun 2026 21:02:04
Good info Huey, but a substantial outlay of EUR8m.
08 Jun 2026 21:41:55
I have never heard of the guy, but just looking at his stats, Prytz also pointed out captained the side a few times and played up top too. His transfer value seems to have shot up in last 18 months, but out of contract end of June, so would be a free transfer. On paper sounds good.
09 Jun 2026 05:33:17
It sounds strange to me that someone might be offered a "leadership role" when they haven't even played at the club before. How often does that happen? I haven't heard of it.
I use this example a lot, but Bruno Alves looked the perfect captain for Rangers. Many wanted him to have the armband before he kicked a ball for Rangers. He failed here. This lad, Dan Neil, might be exactly the same. I actually had to Google when the last time Rangers made a new singing captain was. Apparently it was about 40 years ago with Terry Butcher.
The player would need to come to this club and prove himself on and off the pitch first before even being considered. He would need to find his vice in the dressing room and prove himself to be a leader amongst this newly formed squad we'll have next season. Maybe there will be bigger personalities than him.
I suspect Rangers will float the armband around a bit during pre-season and not commit to any one player. I think a captain will be named later on once we have found a formation and team that is working for us.
09 Jun 2026 10:40:45
All this about armbands etc. Leaders are leaders, with or without armbands. It takes a certain mentality to be a leader of people, and some people have it and some don't. Putting an armband on someone doesn't make them a leader. That's the problem from old. We had too many players wearing an armband that didn't know how to lead.
09 Jun 2026 12:18:32
Gees, leaders on the park, Shankland and Niel are that.
09 Jun 2026 14:44:58
I understand where people are coming from, but Shankland, Neill and Ferguson are all captains, leaders and winners. They all have what is needed in the same way I saw that in Terry Butcher all those years ago.
I don't think we have time to see how it goes as the evidence is there. Also, we need a fresh broom to change the attitudes and mindsets in the squad - these types of guys would do that immediately as the old guard have failed year after year.
If we were to get Ferguson, a big if, I'd use the captaincy ploy to give him higher wages than the rest of the squad as suggested above.