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24 Feb 2025 09:00:40
I'm hearing rumours of Marco Rose in the summer; apparently something about working with Red bull
Also woudnt be surprised if we get Jesse Marsch in, also worked with Red bull
Anyone hearing similar.
1.) 24 Feb 2025 09:37:16
Can understand the thoughts behind both, but believe Marco Rose is in-situ at RB Leipzig and Jesse Marsch likewise with Canada. The latter also got Leeds relegated when the Americans started increasing their stake.
Can't see either happening.
2.) 24 Feb 2025 09:42:05
Was it not the 49ers that sacked Marsch at Leeds? Unless he went before they took over.
3.) 24 Feb 2025 09:45:23
What has red bull got to do with the 49ers mate?
4.) 24 Feb 2025 09:54:19
Interim role will be filled by a number of coaches, all ex players and all brought in to challenge the integrity of the current squad.
Let that sink in.
5.) 24 Feb 2025 10:01:59
Jesse Marsch just took the Canada job.
Marco Rose is a spent force.
Sadly, it'll be Gerrard.
6.) 24 Feb 2025 10:34:39
I read the links to managers who had history with Red Bull but didn't understand why . Its not Red Bull who are investing or taking over Rangers so why would they have any input into it.
7.) 24 Feb 2025 10:54:57
What about klopp? He works for redbull ???.
8.) 24 Feb 2025 10:55:52
But who will be the actual main man/ manager out of the ex players that are brought in EHL ?.
9.) 24 Feb 2025 11:04:23
Ehl love reading your posts mate, yourself and john always give good info to the rest of us, i know you're involved in the club, and your post would suggest the players are under the microscope from the board, do you think the board held onto phil as long as they possibly could with the view of him having a better squad to work with nxt season?
10.) 24 Feb 2025 11:31:50
Heard senior squad members were Butland, Tavernier and Lawrence. Butland has dropped performance level this season, Tavernier a serial bottler and if Lawrence had same integrity as Clement would owe us millions.
11.) 24 Feb 2025 13:11:20
Perhaps the 3 players as the leadership group were asked by the board to speak to them and said the dressing room was lost. we don't know what happened there but I think more will come out over next week or so.
05 Jan 2025 16:46:50
Not a rumour as such
Regarding the player trading model, I actually think it's going to work, at least the signs are now there.
If any scouts watched that today, Hamza is easily worth 15 million a boy of his age scorning 9 goals in 8 games now and a perfect hat trick, I think positionally he's a false 9 but time will tell
Raskin awful today but his performance on Thursday means he's worth a few quid now
Dio looks good in Europe and against Celtic, well just not against the low block which he won't face in other leagues, we will double our money
Yilmaz will still go for decent cash too
Jefte is still very raw but can be developed into a really good player, and if sterling could stay fit I'm sure there's umpteen teams that would love his versatility
Unfortunately now, we are second best and will have to be satisfied with cup wins and old firm victories as any time a player comes in a does well he will be punted on, but I'd rather have a team to support that picks up young talent and sells than a team that's full of old codgers like ostenstad and berg that still doesn't win anything
Thoughts?
1.) 05 Jan 2025 17:05:34
I want to watch my team winning trophies and that's what we need to get back to.
2.) 05 Jan 2025 17:17:18
Can't argue with much of THAT, although we don't do great selling players to be fair. And unfortunately Sterling will be as fit as often ad Balogun, at least Balogun has age to blame.
3.) 05 Jan 2025 17:24:00
Reasonable assessment bud?.
4.) 05 Jan 2025 18:12:38
At the moment only outstanding Igamane and Raskin likely to make much profit. Cost cutting and Player trading only work if players impress.
5.) 05 Jan 2025 18:15:57
We keep moaning about teams playing low block against us but they aren't at the moment. They're not scared and are attacking us.
6.) 05 Jan 2025 18:20:24
Onewalter: we all want that but finances is against that we are way behind them financially and that has come from player trading, we will be behind them for a while yet unless we invest in our squad our defence is poor we scored three goals away from home today and still not enough to win the game we had a left back at right back a right back as a CB we need to sort that out.
7.) 05 Jan 2025 18:47:24
I agree with everything you've said but it doesn't look to me ad if there's money avail to invest significantly in the squad so may have to try and bring a fee in for ingaman or raskin maybe butland it's a terrible position to be in and goes back to the mismanagement the summer of 55.
8.) 05 Jan 2025 18:54:00
BaldyBear, i think igamane can most definitely lead the line and very capable of running the channels but i see him as a central no.9 striker going forward in the future ?I think he's capable of scoring a lot of goals for us, if he's here any length of time ?.
9.) 05 Jan 2025 19:38:18
Kasier when we have the ball teams still go into low block.
10.) 06 Jan 2025 08:11:38
I would say that if we had a few less injuries and maybe an outstanding no nonsense CH then the gap would be minimal IMO. Not saying we're not behind, especially financially, but small margins for me which can change fairly quickly, wouldn't say Ida and Engels have set the world on fire for almost 20 m.
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13 May 2025 20:39:07
To me, this impending announcement of Ancelloti Junior has an air of Revolution about it
If this happens, I can't imagine he's not getting access to top class talent to develop
We are about to witness something special, it may be a spectacular failure but it may be something outstanding, groundbreaking
Think when Souness signed Butcher, it just takes one marquee signing and the rest will come
This time it won't be the England captain, but it may well be an up and coming star or maybe even someone like Luka Modric.
29 Apr 2025 10:27:40
Was thinking, how would we feel about being RB Rangers?
Now, Leipzig aren't red bull leipzig they are RB Leipzig
This could happen with us too? Royal Blue Rangers shortened to RB to appease the new owners and secure long term cash?
Thoughts.
{Ed001's Note - they are known as RB simply because Bundesliga rules forbid them being named Red Bull. All the other teams they have taken over are known as Red Bull.}
1.) 29 Apr 2025 12:16:54
Simples just name us ROYAL BLUE RANGERS i could live wth that.
2.) 29 Apr 2025 11:48:16
Brilliant Ed, anything you don't know about the game mate.
{Ed001's Note - lots mate, so much I don't know but I wish I did know everything.}
3.) 29 Apr 2025 13:20:02
The RB stands for RasenBallsport because of the German rules.
{Ed001's Note - correct. I was going to ask if anyone knew what it stood for, but didn't want to come across all school teacherish!}
4.) 29 Apr 2025 13:34:43
Nice one cathkin, every day is a school day mate.
5.) 29 Apr 2025 13:39:06
It imo makes not one difference if it's RB Rangers we will all call team rangers, least they are not called Racing Club.
6.) 29 Apr 2025 14:57:28
I remember the Rasenballsport part from when we played them in the semi final. There was a short intro on both clubs in the prematch build up. You do just assume that the RB stands for Red Bull but its not. Although indirectly everyone knows it does.
7.) 29 Apr 2025 14:58:45
Exactly, john ?.
26 Mar 2025 05:47:09
Not too impressed with the links to Michael Carrick, thinks he's on a shuggily peg at Boro don't think he'd be any a better option than Gerrard
For me the championship manager i'd like to see is Scott Parker, what an unbelievable record with clean sheets he's had this season!
Whether or not he'd have what it takes to beat the low-block up here is a different story
My heart is still set on Knutsen, what a jobs he's done at Bodo imagine what he could do for our club as a whole if everyone buys into it.
If not him, McKenna at Ipswich would be a really good shout I think he might just fancy a crack at trophies and Europe next season
Who is everyone's first choice of new manager at our club?
1.) 26 Mar 2025 08:58:03
Scott parker I believe was Interviewed or had a discussion at least before with us so very well could be in the reckoning.
I'd be happy with Gerrard and ferguson
Or Marco Rose.
2.) 26 Mar 2025 09:12:51
BaldyBear, my first choice still remains kevin muscat who i wanted when beale got sacked, although i firmly now believe that ship has sailed ☹️My second choice would be kjetil knutsen and depending on how barry ferguson does from now until the end of the season, i wouldn't be against him and his management team getting a shot at being our permanent management team ?.
3.) 26 Mar 2025 10:20:25
Rebrov currently Ukraine manager would be a decent shout imo.
4.) 26 Mar 2025 10:48:13
Gerrard or Ferguson is a no stig.
5.) 26 Mar 2025 10:54:44
I've no interest in having a manager who gets a cut of transfer fees, had that previously with a manager who only bought players if they used his daughter's agency. That rules one out. Muscat for me is a no-no, for no real reason but I just don't think he's the right man for the job, call it a gut instinct maybe. Not sure that Barry Ferguson will get the chance to continue, reckon he would have to win the Europa League to even get close to the job.
I think we could be looking at a name completely out of left field for our next appointment, maybe a known name but not someone who has been linked previously.
One good point, not that he's been linked yet, but Lenny has a job now haha.
6.) 26 Mar 2025 11:10:52
Right now, I'm leaning towards keeping the current team in place.
7.) 26 Mar 2025 12:50:59
I go with the current team.
8.) 26 Mar 2025 12:54:34
That's my thoughts EHL with some better quality brought in players wise we would have a good chance i reckon of doing well.
Not sure why anyone thinks Barry and team can't do it
When you look at all previous managers
I honedlty think we couod take on someone new and if it doesn't work out again were back here next season
So why not just government them a proper shot if it doesn't work it doesn't work they have same chances as anyone especially another foreign manager if that's the route we take again.
To me it's silly going down another foreign manager route at this point in time they just can adapt to managing with such a tight margins and expected to win most games they can't take the pressure.
Barry and team know exactly what to expect and what's required.
9.) 26 Mar 2025 13:26:44
So basically EHL, you're not liking the names you're hearing from within who we're linked to mate ?.
10.) 26 Mar 2025 14:44:59
Barry and the guys for me as well atm.
11.) 26 Mar 2025 15:10:49
Sws but it's all rumours everywhere on our next manager.
12.) 26 Mar 2025 15:32:54
Let the honeymoon period pass before any judgement is made on management team - many have come before had a boost for few games and then the same old same old fell-back into place - TIME and bread and butter games will tell?.
13.) 26 Mar 2025 16:12:35
I don't think it will be Barry and the guys because we need someone who understands the club and the Scottish league and . hang on wait a minute ?.
07 Mar 2025 08:05:06
Not a rumour
People, especially the other teams fans, will now say why can't we beat Queen's Park but we can beat Fener
Most will even say it makes Fener a bad team
The difference is in Scotland we play Hoofball, and in Europe we get to play football
Rangers are a decent football team, and unfortunately for us not the best hoofball team
Thoughts?
1.) 07 Mar 2025 08:35:34
Na, can't agree with that.
We struggled away from home and lost the last few home games due to the mentality of our squad.
2.) 07 Mar 2025 08:35:38
Utter bull because Celtic don't play hoof ball and are a much better team than us. It's quite obviously a mentality issue with these players. It's no coincidence we play our best football on a Thursday.
3.) 07 Mar 2025 08:47:46
Do Celtic play hoofball? They can put multiple goals past these teams. We should also be winning comfortably more often than not.
Can't help but think it's a player mentality issue.
No doubt a team attacking us in Europe let's us play.
But also no doubt there is a night and day change in the application and desire of our players when playing on the euro stage.
4.) 07 Mar 2025 09:00:54
Celtic have little problem in most games scoring against teams playing "hoofball".
Very simply, we haven't been good enough domestically this season.
5.) 07 Mar 2025 09:14:12
Baldybiff I think it's about how we play and our attitude that let's us down domestically.
6.) 07 Mar 2025 09:24:55
Like I already said. These players have a bigger stage to play on for being sold and get higher wages.
One word of warning troops. They score in the first ten minutes at Ibrox and its squeaky bum time!
7.) 07 Mar 2025 09:32:58
White horse but if we score in the first 10 minutes the tie is over mate.
8.) 07 Mar 2025 09:47:29
My star, I know that mate. It was just a word of caution.
9.) 07 Mar 2025 10:13:41
We should go with the exact same game plan and play on the counter attack against them on thursday because they will have to go for it and undoubtedly we'll get more space to hurt them ?Play this second leg right and i fancy us to get through ???.
10.) 07 Mar 2025 11:51:01
Spot on coops.
23 Jan 2025 10:43:48
Let's be honest
We could replace Dessers with Simon Murray, Shankland etc on much much less wages for 3rd choice striker
Not saying that the like of Curtis main is good enough, but 25k a week to not be first choice is crazy
Wish him all the best, the young man that came off the bench last week looked great.
17 May 2025 05:33:49
Great idea
Personally would prefer we used Accies or Airdrie as they are more likely to play the younger kids week in week out but we absolutely should be jumping all over this an in idea.
16 May 2025 05:53:47
But we'd make money in the future also, about time the club start making money off players.
16 May 2025 05:53:20
I'll be honest, I'd sell all 3!
Healthy sell on clauses on the lot means not only would they fund this years rebuild but.
16 May 2025 05:52:19
Asa is a fantastic poster, an asset to the site not only because he often has good info but because he has real world dealings in football and can offer insight and a perspective different from the rest
I for one look forward to his posts.
04 May 2025 06:26:48
Asa football fans are fickle we don't know if we need a shower or a shave at the best of times
However the 1 in 9 patter comes straight from snake mountain as did the "penalty to rangers" campaign
Legend in Liverpool, God in Glasgow was the banner we should all remember not let our memories be poisoned, 2 years no defeats in the derby.
That being said, I think Marco Rose would be an absolutely sensational appointment that I'm on board with
Gerrard yes
Rose yes
Knutsen yes
Dyche No!
Martin No!
16 Mar 2025 08:20:26
I won't be surprised if Fergie and his team get a job at another club after this season.
16 Mar 2025 08:19:49
Maeda plays thru the middle now mate with Kuhn a jota on the side, I'd prefer us to start with the 5–4-1 again.