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03 Sep 2024 18:02:57
We know it's a rebuild, but has any club ever had a successful rebuild without a core of hardened professionals?
For me, the time for a rebuild was when Gerrard left or when we lost in the final of the Europa league.
We could have profited from those players and kept the likes of Steven Davis, JD etc at the club to make sure there was high calibre model pros at the club to set the standard .
Which leads me to the belief that now, for the rebuild to be a successful one, we need to add hardened professionals to the squad.
I don't expect Sergio Ramos, but there are a lot of players with international and European experience that could be brought to the club and help us over the next year?
Thoughts.
1.) 03 Sep 2024 19:14:06
Not only hardened professionals but professionals who are tough and not easily intimidated. That kind of attitude and trait is a prerequisite for a Rangers captain. If we had a player or players with that kind of attitude it should rub off on other team members. Our Board might be looking at a strategy of bringing in young, promising players to develop and sell at profit, but these players need to have experience and guidance and, dare I say, elements of protection and aggression to help them. Free agents may not be tie in with the current strategy (and it'd likely take time for them to get match fit) but there's too much riding on it to dismiss it.
2.) 03 Sep 2024 19:46:10
Big Sergio is out of contract ?.
3.) 03 Sep 2024 19:59:00
Baldy I would like to see you approach Souttar in a bar and tell him he’s not a hardened professional. ?.
4.) 03 Sep 2024 20:03:47
Wouldn’t mind a good solid spine to be honest.
5.) 03 Sep 2024 21:20:04
Bgate based on Sun neither would many of our players.
6.) 03 Sep 2024 22:24:52
Rebuild should have been after europa final led by Gio in my opinion.
7.) 04 Sep 2024 00:32:23
Remember when Ange came in and did their rebuild. They won the league that year. All this talk of years to rebuild it's nonsense. The players being signed aren't up to scratch. Whoever our scouts are, they're not very good.
01 Sep 2024 21:32:43
There's a (slim) chance PC will walk after being abused by the fans today
There's none, or very few shoots of recovery to be excited about
It feels all very Paul Le-Guen again, just not suited for the league and his comments are a mile off
I genuinely like PC I really did think he'd be the man to bring the good times back
But
If he goes, realistically who wants to inherit this mess?
Lampard? Mcinnes said no before
Would Gerrard come back?
Knutsen?
Moyes?
It's a massive risk, we're turning into Hibs/.
1.) 01 Sep 2024 22:09:15
I would be all over Martial as a free.
2.) 01 Sep 2024 22:21:14
Martial, more likely to be Armstrong or fleck.
3.) 01 Sep 2024 22:26:00
He’d be on scary wages Scott.
4.) 01 Sep 2024 22:26:28
Behave, he's going nowhere.
5.) 01 Sep 2024 22:29:02
Adrien Rabiot would be a belter of a free. No chance though.
6.) 01 Sep 2024 22:33:16
The Board will do all that they can to stop PC walking away since then there would be no fall guy to shoulder the blame for their incompetence!
If he walks then they will struggle to secure anyone of any merit when they have failed miserably to support PC, SG or Van Bronkhurst and although the perception is that they supported Beale the net spend was not that great.
What is more I would question whether the players signed were actually Beale's signings or if they were actually Park and Wilson acquisitions.
7.) 02 Sep 2024 07:29:08
Think about it for a moment, were we not better off when Van Bronkhorst was manager? Despite the big clear out and new players in we are worse.
14 Aug 2024 06:54:49
Well I'm absolutely dismayed after last night, and not just because of how long it took me to get parked at Hampden.
Where do we actually go from here as a football club?
I find it ridiculously hard to accept that we are now Dortmund to there Bayern Munich, yes they have more money now than us but as a club they seem to be miles ahead, again.
Stevie G already clawed back the distance and got us on a level playing field, since he's left we've gotten to a Europa League final, and then managed to fall off so badly I wouldn't expect us to beat Progrez Neiderkorn if we played them next week
Serious serious questions must be asked from top to bottom.
1.) 14 Aug 2024 07:15:06
Is winning the league under Stevie g just looks like a fluke.
2.) 14 Aug 2024 07:44:54
This is going to continue for us until we can move on the players who have been here far to long and the mediocre high earners (we know who they are ) the lack of desire and hunger in our team is actually what’s holding us back in my opinion.
14 Aug 2024 06:49:45
What's going on with Danilo?
How can he make the bench, when he can barely walk?
1.) 14 Aug 2024 07:50:08
We need a fit SPL striker asap?. I can't believe we have not raided our own league for a couple of experienced players. We need players that know the league and expectations of our club.
Looks like 5/ 6 injured already ?
Only played 2 games in the league.
How have we let Hagi and Cantwell sit and collect a wage when we are so depleted? A long season or 2 coming if this carries on. ?.
2.) 14 Aug 2024 08:33:20
100% correct, Hagi and Cantwell should be in the squad until they leave. It's ridiculous cutting noses off to spite faces.
14 Jul 2024 06:36:21
Well not to be too downhearted on Clements recent comments
I'm not surprised the board lied to him, I am however extremely grateful to him for telling us the truth that it's a club rebuild not a first team rebuild and he's trying to sort us out long term not just compete for a season or 2, I do fear the worst for this season if we don't get champions league football
Reality is we have next to no money and a bunch of overpaid players
I wouldn't be surprised if we move on, or attempt to move on
Butland - Kelly hasn't been terrible he's a safe pair of hands whilst we go thru transition
Tav- high earner sterling already there to replace him
Goldson- high earner
Ridvan- potential to make cash
Matondo- high earner low performer, decent enough highlight reels to show there's a player there
Cantwell- high earner but could be sold for 5m
Lawrence- high earner made of biscuits
Wright - unfortunately may stay as he's a low earner but Scottish
Dessers- potentially to recoup money, could sign a new striker for less wages and transfer fee
Lammers- need to recoup money
Danilo- may well be forced to sell to recoup money before transfer value plummets
There's probably a few I've missed too, I'd expect the signings of unknown players is over for now and we'd be looking to supplement the squad with players who know the league and are under 30
Woudnt be surprised to see bids for the likes of Armstrong, Shankland, mcburnie, McLean, McKenna, other Armstrong
May well be a very difficult season ahead, all I can say it's not the managers fault
Back him as he wants a better future for us, the board have sold him a dead horse and he's been honest with us about it
He's got a track record of developing young players and must be given the same time Gerrard was to deliver
Remember where we have been, this isn't as bad as what we've been thru already and we will get thru this.
1.) 14 Jul 2024 07:15:15
We ain’t selling Danilo for the money we paid for him when he has been out injured for that long, no club will take that gamble.
2.) 14 Jul 2024 07:18:41
Going by clement's comments he's undoubtedly been let down and given let's say false information by our board, back when he took the rangers manager's job last october ?I'm sure most will be like the thinking of myself that it is going to be mighty difficult for us this year, especially in trying to wrestle the league away from celtic, given the money issue circumstances ?It doesn't change the expectations of our supporters however, that we have to be winning trophies and that should never change and it certainly won't change in my thinking ? Clement will be under pressure to deliver and i hope he can pull more than a few rabbits out the hat for us this coming season ?It could well be we need to suffer again hopefully short-term, for long-term gain under clement, who i like and rate but how long will most of our fed up supporters give him ?It pains me to say it but our club in every aspect is way behind celtic at this moment in time ☹️We need investment coming into our club and fast otherwise, god forbid, we could be looking at celtic racking up title after title and getting towards that number 10 iar again ☹️I just wonder how long clement will stick around with us now, after the lies the board told him last october ?I'm not kidding one bit when i say that given our circumstances, that clement will eventually go and someone like derek mcinnes will become our new manager who knows this league ?.
3.) 14 Jul 2024 08:05:13
SWS I agree rangers should all be about winning trophies! I think we have made a lot of lazy decisions in the transfer market. Yes in Aribo and Basey we signed two gems but too many players on high wages from English leagues past it or we have been guilty of signing a high profile name like Aaron Ramsey. We laughed at them signing Japanese players and an u known manager in Ange and although they had some duds from Asian market they have had some absolute gems. The duds seem easy for them to move on or if not they aren’t on massive wages or a massive transfer fee.
Last summer as a fan base most of us were thinking why have we spent £13m on strikers who had barely scored 20 goals combined between the 3 of them, but our car salesmen Beale seemed to convince the board and a number of fans that these were the players to take us to the next level oh no sorry wait that was Jose cifuentes ?.
4.) 14 Jul 2024 08:47:50
We can’t spend money we don’t have I get that. Or we will be in a mess like 2012.
That team can’t compete on the park with Celtic anyone thinking otherwise is clueless and that defence with Goldson and Tav ain’t winning no league.
5.) 14 Jul 2024 09:21:46
There's no a chance we spend 20/ 25m this summer the best we can hope is if we get tav or goldson or lammers out that money can be used to bring in players but overall I'd expect our total spend to be less than 10m.
02 Sep 2024 22:24:01
Would be absolutely bizarre to sign him, he’s well past his best and despite his experience would offer very little in terms of leadership qualities.
24 Aug 2024 06:38:31
Pretty sure his manager at Preston rated him as the best left sided CB in the championship before he went to Liverpool
Coincidentally the other mob were trying to sign him before Liverpool made there bid, due to injuries
Genuinely think he was probably at one time decent but being ripped to bits by wee Mo and Sadio etc probably dented his confidence, just like it did to Leon King.
03 Aug 2024 06:35:33
Disgusting to be honest, Cantwell is a very good player and we may well miss him when he’s gone. If Gerrard was still here Cantwell would thrive, don’t understand how we’ve become so toxic.
25 Jul 2024 06:41:10
This is 100% the fault of our worryingly increasingly toxic so called “supporters”
We need to banish the knuckle dragging element from social media. They are damaging our great club
Under Gerrard we had a tremendous relationship with our players, look at the likes of Defoe etc who’ve taken the club to there heart
Now we have young players like Cantwell Silva etc leaving because of the fans, not the boss.
I understand the frustration but the fans are about to send the club straight back to the Ian black and Kevin Kyle era if they don’t wind there neck in.
23 Jul 2024 12:20:17
Bornblue
Shanks plays in a better team
Miovski has a higher ceiling, personally for short term I’d prefer Shanks too, but long term Miovski could be a huge asset to the club
Why not both if we can move Dessers Lammers and Danilo on?
03 Sep 2024 16:29:49
Actually Lampard would be ideal for the rebuild
He wasn’t afraid to play younger players during Chelsea’s tough season, and he had the Everton team defending for there lives in spite of there lack of quality they stayed up comfortably, and now look a certainty to go down
It’s a shame we turned our noses up at him.
14 Aug 2024 06:55:47
That’s sackable at any level ( no I don’t want him sacked )
01 Aug 2024 11:59:33
Correct no room for sentiment in football, Pep moved on David Silva, Agiero and Kompany
If he stays he should take a wage cut he knows our situation.
15 Jun 2024 06:20:10
100% correct R1
The quality gap between those teams are astronomical
There’s a reason Germany have 4 stars above there crest and we celebrated getting to the Euros, there a level above and they taught us a harsh lesson.
15 Jun 2024 06:17:12
I’m not just saying it because he plays for them, but a think McGregors time has came and went for Scotland now. Billy Giilmoir controls a game better and plays in premier league, Lewis ferguson (yes I know he’s injured) is the best midfielder in Italy right now
And McGinn and mctominay are the cornerstones of the team, so for me going forward it should be him who drops out of the team and let’s gilmour ferguson etc get some game time, probably Barron aswell in the next couple of years.