Rangers Banter 2

17 Aug 2026 19:10:30
I see we only need to offer then 50 tickets for the cup and after last time that's literally all we should offer

17 Aug 2026 19:37:41
That's fifty too many.

17 Aug 2026 19:45:54
Would give them Sweet F.A.

17 Aug 2026 20:54:44
Give them a full stand so we can pump them on front of their fans. 💪🏻

17 Aug 2026 21:39:41
I assume the 50 will also need to show they aren't members of the Green Brigade.

17 Aug 2026 18:54:30
So Coventry City have signed two strikers now. So maybe the Ellis Sims rumours could have legs. Hope you are all well and take care Sisters and Brothers. Onwards and Upwards for our Club. 💙🇬🇧😘

17 Aug 2026 19:14:44
According to a few posters and certain media reports, the shortlist of 3 for the strikers being considered to replace Youssef Chermiti are Kevin Kelsy, Ellis Simms, and Daniel Karlsbakk. 🤔🇬🇧

17 Aug 2026 19:24:46
I wonder if the media reports came from journalists reading here? Those 3 names came from a long conversation I had with ChatGPT this morning as to who fit the description of a post from yesterday. 🤣

17 Aug 2026 19:25:36
I live near Coventry, have never seen Simms play, but my son describes him as "a donkey"!

17 Aug 2026 19:30:18
I mentioned Karlsbakk a few years ago, and Athe said he would be a baller, but needed to stay where he was for a few seasons, so maybe now is the time. Although he's contracted to 2029, I think.

17 Aug 2026 19:53:08
Dadab club looking for around 4m for him fits the Scandinavian player for £4m mentioned yesterday.

17 Aug 2026 20:15:05
Karlsbakk looks really good, seems a more natural finisher than Kelsy. Not too sure about Ellis, but he has all the attributes for our league. Tough decisions going to be made soon me thinks.

17 Aug 2026 20:36:47
I could see Simms as a loan to cover Chermiti's injury, but I disagree with paying £6m+ for him.

17 Aug 2026 20:38:29
Karlsbakk would be my choice of those 3.

17 Aug 2026 20:55:17
Sisters and brothers?

17 Aug 2026 21:33:05
Simms is not worth 6m, watched him last season, and for his size, he gets pushed off the ball easily, so not suited to Scottish football.

17 Aug 2026 22:23:32
All about opinions, Goram, but it would be Kevin Kelsy for me from those 3 hands down, my friend, he has the lot. 👌🇬🇧

17 Aug 2026 23:14:34
Karlsbakk a very good player for that money, would much rather we spent big to shore up at CB and sign a left winger.

17 Aug 2026 18:36:59
Penrice debut was very good IMO goal and assist can't remember anyone having as good a debut in a long time

17 Aug 2026 19:06:14
Didn't Olly Antman have a very good debut?

17 Aug 2026 19:11:18
I'm not sure if it was his debut, but one of his first games, I saw Yilmaz and thought what a player he's going to be.

17 Aug 2026 19:19:20
Both Antman and Gassama had very good debuts last season.

17 Aug 2026 19:20:15
Strom, I had my doubts about how good Penrice was, but after seeing him in the flesh with the famous jersey on, I couldn't be happier. He was outstanding and I hope he keeps that form up. Also, how good was Drago? That goal was coming, he's really good at shooting. Two great signings.

17 Aug 2026 20:18:40
Storm, the guy oozes class! Was a standout at Livi and Hearts, and I think he's even improved since then, why he got his move to the continent. Going to stick my neck out and say he's a future captain.

Noticed yesterday he was very vocal and demanding on the pitch. Looked like he'd been here for years, like he was born to play for the Gers. 💪

17 Aug 2026 20:32:44
Antman did have a good debut, but he took months to score his one and only goal for us. Gassama scored on his debut coming on as a sub against Panathinaikos.

17 Aug 2026 22:36:34
Doesn't surprise me in the least how superbly well James Penrice played for us in his Rangers debut yesterday. 👌 I've said before how much I've wanted Rangers to sign him even way back in his Livingston days, and I'll say again he'll be our no 1 first choice left back over Tuur Rommens, absolutely no doubt about that for me, and I like Rommens but imo Penrice is better.

🤔 🇬🇧

17 Aug 2026 18:18:02
Hey you guys - who's booked at 1DG this week then? 😜

17 Aug 2026 18:58:23
If that's a clue - Sloth from The Goonies?

17 Aug 2026 19:04:42
The legend of One Eyed Willie. 👀😇😉

17 Aug 2026 19:38:55
Have we not stopped giving money to our recruitment team? 😉

17 Aug 2026 18:08:23
Who's the dude Scotland have appointed as Manager. I've never heard of him.

17 Aug 2026 18:25:16
Used to be manager of USG in Belgium.

17 Aug 2026 18:44:28
Was a fb in his playing days, had some EPL experience and a decent stint at USG in Belgium.

Think he made some appearances for Belgium, but not many.

17 Aug 2026 20:48:21
Did well at USG, won the league and got the Monaco job off the back of that, then they sacked him within a year. Might do okay, and better than Clark, that's for sure.

17 Aug 2026 16:11:04
Hi,

We seemed to look/play better without Shankland, we will see when he is back in the team from the start.

Would have liked to have him 2/3 years ago, when we had the chance, but we did not rate him at that time!

Still could come good, but for me from the bench!

Would like to be proved wrong!

17 Aug 2026 17:43:03
Probably, but what I will say is we definitely played better without Dio and Devlin, particularly Devlin who, on the face of it, looks ok but after watching an analysis video, he slows down any move and picks the wrong forward pass often.

17 Aug 2026 17:57:08
So has McInnes made the wrong decision in making Shankland our captain? Always better if the captain is playing.

17 Aug 2026 18:29:33
Is Shankland not the club captain and the match day captain will be whoever McInnes deems suitable based on the team he selects?

17 Aug 2026 18:39:01
I wouldn't have made Shanks captain, but that's clearly the level of faith DM had in him at the time, so each time he starts on the bench it makes you wonder if he questions that now. I think Souttar or Raskin would have been next in line under previous managers, so with transfer talk around them they wouldn't have crossed DM's mind.

17 Aug 2026 18:46:38
Not without Shankland as such, but a formation that is natural to everybody.

17 Aug 2026 19:03:18
Would say formation to be fair, three mids needed when two wingers/forwards around loan striker, 4-4-2 with two wingers leaves us with huge spaces when ball turnover. A Shankland goal from open play and he will kick on.

17 Aug 2026 19:20:24
We can't play 4-4-2 in the vast majority of our games, as it will allow opposition midfielders to overrun us in there, and that's where the game is won and lost. 🤔 🇬🇧

17 Aug 2026 19:23:23
I think, and still do, that Shankland is the 3rd best striker at the club. I do, however, hope he proves me wrong at some point. We should definitely still have got him, mind he was on a free, and I think once he's full fit and firing, he will score a few goals for us.

17 Aug 2026 15:31:57
Brighton appear to have rejected a
7 million offer for a winger

17 Aug 2026 16:37:11
John, you would think nowadays a deal could be done with a higher sell on, go to 40 or 50% for example.

If the lad later for big money, it's win win.

I think using a model like that would appeal to the selling club more and would make it more likely to get these young talents.

17 Aug 2026 16:43:53
But our model is to make money? This makes that much harder. We are struggling as it is making money.

17 Aug 2026 17:00:46
There is no way we would agree to a 40 - 50% sell on.

17 Aug 2026 17:07:41
Why?

For example - Buy for let's say £5M with 50% sell on rather than say £10M

If we sell for £15M - it's £5M profit. It's the same.

Appreciate this is basic, and there is agent fees etc., but just trying to show it makes sense.

And allows you to bring players to the club that you would normally be priced out of.

Appreciate, if the player goes for mega money, it's different, but how often does that happen.

17 Aug 2026 17:09:41
Totally agree, Sunshine, and neither we ever should, mate. 😲

17 Aug 2026 17:25:36
So, SWS, if we could have got Chermiti for £6M with a 50% sell on, you would have said no and rather spent £11M with a 20% sell on?

I know what deal I'd rather go for!

As a business operating in player performance, this type of deal makes more
sense as it protects you more for when players don't reach their potential or they run their contract down.

17 Aug 2026 17:26:09
40-50% wow, Zikos.

In no way, shape or form, should a Scottish club ever offer that, not like we sell players for £50m on the regular.

This lad was in League 1 last year and if Brighton are demanding that kind of money we should really move on.

17 Aug 2026 17:28:29
Zikos, the key word Phylis, if we sell, also Brighton want the money as it affects their PSR now.

17 Aug 2026 17:38:00
Key word if we sell.

17 Aug 2026 17:42:34
Yeah, I get that, John. There are players out there where PSR probably doesn't come into it.

I think we could have done something with the Dahl deal with this regard.

We really wanted him.

The player wanted to come here, but we couldn't afford the fee. Paying a reduced fee with a higher sell on could have worked.

Remembering you only pay the sell on fee from the profit.

17 Aug 2026 18:15:11
Sorry Zikos, but imo that is way off, mate, no chance would we offer that. 😲

17 Aug 2026 18:39:59
Closing in on Kelsy.

17 Aug 2026 19:14:23
SWS, I agree with you, we probably won't.

And we'll keep missing out on key targets and be signing 3rd or 4th choice players.

We need to do something differently to keep up with clubs in Europe because we're not getting cash from TV. So we need to use what little resources we have more efficiently.