Rangers banter 5

07 May 2026 21:35:54
Wee bit of a laugh just for fun. Since 2018-now, who would you pick for a starting 11 from all the players in that time

07 May 2026 22:27:29
Not out bloody captain, that's for sure.

07 May 2026 23:08:07
Who u having at Rb Stig?

07 May 2026 23:17:16
Maybe most of the apparently dreadful 1st squad Gerrard had. 😜 It's only 8 years, but my mind's gone blank. How about McGregor, Barasic, Tav, Goldson, Balogun, Davis, Raskin (just to upset Lundstram's fan), Arfield, Kent, Morelos, Defoe.

07 May 2026 21:27:38
It's funny how all the media are talking about Rohl leaving, right before an old firm.

07 May 2026 21:37:34
What's funny about it? The link came from German media and has been picked up by Scottish media. It's not something that's been made up to cause unrest.

07 May 2026 21:42:29
Mate, I'm not even interacting with you. To have that name about your supposed own manager is woeful. Tim's in my work call DR that.

07 May 2026 21:46:02
It's a username on a football forum. It's really not that deep.

07 May 2026 22:45:42
He does have a point though, OT, it was mentioned on here days ago also, so why shouldn't the Scottish media pick it up?

07 May 2026 20:33:16
Boy blue. Started exercising and warm up re Sunday.

07 May 2026 21:37:08
Brilliant John 👏 just take it easy with the warm up, as I'll need you for the full 90.
I'll bring a can of WD40 for our knees for afterwards, so we can totally over do it. 😉 💪

07 May 2026 21:49:30
Couple halves will help me, u going?

07 May 2026 21:54:41
A big rigger that used to work with me genuinely used to put WD40 on his knees lol. Was a cracking big guy, and if I remember rightly he was at Hibs when best was there but he got realised for being a big of a naughty boy 😂

07 May 2026 20:22:48
Right I've got my armour on take your shots 🤣 if DR leaves we need to 100% try and get SG back. He took one of the worst gers teams in our history and managed to overturn one of celtics historic greatest teams. Most forget every expert stated that it would take over 100 mill and 5 years just to compete and never mind catch celtic. In as little as 3 years he had us playing some of best football I've seen at Ibrox in decades.

Stopped the ten and it was basically his team that got us to a European final. Imho if our board had backed him, he would have stayed and went on to win a lot more. When he left we where 7 point clear at top of the league.
With the backing of the 49ers i believe he would return the glory to our club.

07 May 2026 20:36:14
I'm assuming we will all be happy to bin him after 6 months if we aren't challenging for the title.

07 May 2026 20:44:40
It wasn't as bad a squad as made out.

07 May 2026 20:50:56
IStevie clearly the best fit. People can disagree, but rarely offer a sensible alternative other than that wee guy at Livi, and we are no going to pay for hoof it McInnes.

07 May 2026 21:28:21
Mind though he signed 2000 players.

07 May 2026 21:35:01
It is simply fantasy, absolute fantasy to state we played some of our best football under Gerrard.
The football, at times, was dire. We did get results, and because of the turmoil at Celtic Park, he was successful. That said, Gerrard is not a top football manager.
God help us.

07 May 2026 21:36:37
One of Celtic's greatest teams? 😂😂 I get what you're saying, but that's hilarious. Not minimising what SG achieved, but they won so much mostly because of how bad we were. And they collapsed during Covid fallouts. Personally, thanks but no thanks, but if he was to come back, fine, but not if he's going to string us along yet again.

07 May 2026 21:52:30
I actually cannot understand the flak SG gets. It just proves how impossible it ever will be again to be a successful manager here. Even winning that 1 title, in a lot of fans' eyes, he isn't a good manager and never was.

07 May 2026 21:52:44
You might just be the n to something here, Stewart. 🫡

07 May 2026 22:00:49
Theres that Scottish snobbery again re: McInnes. Same people you didn't want Shankland and Doig and Ferguson and Hickey etc etc etc etc.

Id take a winning hoof it McInnes over a losing manager every day or the week.

07 May 2026 22:47:53
Snobbery rubbish again, Howwazthat, and it's not true. I wanted Ferguson, Doig and Hickey at the time. 🥴

07 May 2026 17:50:08
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07 May 2026 15:45:44
Love reading projected signings on here.

How's about this team to win league

Goalie league 2 Europe
Mccrorie
Djiga
Souttar
Stevenson

McLean
Just
Rice



Olsen
Dykes
Windass.

07 May 2026 16:04:32
Now, now, John, stop winding up the guess brigade.

07 May 2026 16:04:47
Now that's just fantasy stuff, John. 😁😉

07 May 2026 16:06:29
Aye, depends on what league. Would be in with a good shout in the Championship.

07 May 2026 16:13:31
I'm only posting an example based on fellow posters who say we r signing players I have named.

Albeit, I did say a deal for Olsen could happen, although I understand that's conditional on our league position.



If our standard is Dykes, McBurnie, et al, I will retro going regular to watch EPL as long as health allows.

Not so long ago we were talking Dahl Doehki.

07 May 2026 16:19:35
But who is the manager of that team, John?

07 May 2026 16:27:22
John, who's the captain?

It will be Rohl, unless he tells Cavanagh he wants to be closer to his family imo.

07 May 2026 16:30:51
Yes, hoping it's all just noise. Would be very depressed if there was any truth in majority of them.
Would expect them to invest heavily this summer so we need a plan that hopefully works. Supporting this crew is wearing me down.

07 May 2026 16:37:29
John, when I posted the guys I want in, I was thinking about the overall squad, mate.

Currently, we have a squad of players made up of expensive loans, expensive foreign imports that don't have the heart, and misfits that have been here for years, that struggle or we can't get rid of.

I'd take Devlin and McCrorie for free. I'd have taken Shankland and McKenna for free last season.

4 guys that know the score and would cost £8-£12m less than we'd pay for lesser imports.

People get excited on this forum by foreign imports that we are linked, me included. We never know how well these guys will do. Most end up on the subs bench.

If the 4 I mentioned just end/ended up as subs, then fair enough. It's a squad game, but at least they haven't cost anything. Easy decision!

07 May 2026 16:52:06
I see the funny side of what John is doing here, but hand on heart and being serious when I say this, ie. Josh Windass would have been miles better and a far better signing than Aasgaard, Gassama and Antman imo. 🤔

07 May 2026 17:20:54
He definitely would have coops.

07 May 2026 17:28:43
Walter, don't disagree Windass may have been better, but that does not make him standard that can win us league.

Walter, I can't see the funny side. I've laid out near 15k for four season tickets before cup ties.

Rosto, the guys u name would may be reasonable squad players.

We do not want Skakland, that has been case for last 10 years. McKenna going east. Devlin no better than Barron who can't get game. McCrorie would not be a free but can play three or four positions.

imo to win the league we require 6-8 starters much better than we have.

07 May 2026 17:51:55
Winds would have contributed much more than Olsen imo.

07 May 2026 17:54:26
That's my argument re: Shankland / Windlass debate etc is that we should have brought in better and because those who we did bring turned out weren't doesn't mean we were wrong not to ignore the likes of Windass.
Although I'd have brought Shankland in on a free when we had chance but would have spent good money on him.

07 May 2026 18:12:28
Better with:

Ritchie, Shearer, Caldow; Greig, McKinnon, Baxter; Henderson, McMillan, Millar, Brand, Wilson.

I wish!

07 May 2026 18:21:49
Actually that's not a bad bench, John, apart from Olsen. Now concentrate on 1st XI. Totally agree with u though about needing 6-8 starters to win the league, yet some say we have the best squad and should have won the league this year. 🤷

07 May 2026 18:32:05
Kaiser, u and I know we do not have the best squad, we only need to look at the table.

07 May 2026 18:35:55
I totally agree with you, John. Some of the names mentioned we would be fighting for top 6. We need starters that make the 1st 11 better, not players that enhance the squad.
The players in the squad will drop to the bench or be sold.

07 May 2026 19:40:09
John, you are right. We will need 6-8 to have any chance next season.
Plus, this season, what have Djiga & Olsen cost us in loan fees & wages this year? I would also guess Souttar & Rice have cost us more than 20k a week, all for little return.


Recruitment is going to have to be far better going forward, especially looking more at temperament as well as skill, because some of the signings have just not adapted to Scottish game.

07 May 2026 19:55:41
Not bringing in Shankland on a free transfer when Dessers left was a major error, he is Scottish, a Rangers man, a leader and an experienced goalscorer in our league. He would have cost nothing and his wages would not have been prohibitive.

Instead we paid money for Miovski whose style doesn't suit us and who has been out of form since he left Aberdeen. Just another piece of the terrible legacy left by the imposter and Thelwell.

07 May 2026 20:48:27
Wsl, I didn't always want Shankland, but I said in summer I would rather have him than Chermiti or Miovski.

We shouldn't have got rid of Dessers, imo, if we still had him, we would still be in a title race.



Only a few weeks ago when debating Chermiti and Dessers someone said that Chermiti could bring us the league this season and Dessers never did. How did that work out?. 🤦‍♂️

07 May 2026 21:47:45
John, I'm a bit confused with your original post. Is it a way of saying you don't believe there is any truth in some other posters' rumours?

07 May 2026 14:47:13
I have seen that Josh Doig is on the market for £4m i would love to see us sign him if we could beat the italian club as good young Scottish left back that knows the league.

07 May 2026 15:38:25
New Ibrox, and what do we do re Rommens.

We are not imo paying 4 million for a bench warmer.

07 May 2026 16:44:53
A once famous man said we need 2 quality players for every positions. We've shown already fragilties at lb when Rommens injured and who says Rommens would start over Diog. For me it's a no trainer. Let them fight it out in training to see who gets picked. We don't have 1 nailed on first name on the team sheet, let's say.

We don't need bodies in that are constant bench warmers that make us weaker when come on, we need quality in. Players when called upon can do just a good a job as the others. John, we paid 8m for Chermiti who's been on the bench countless times so I don't see your logic in your responce.

07 May 2026 17:29:35
Davie, whers the money coming from?

07 May 2026 17:52:58
Transfers are paid over a period of the contract. It's not an instant outlay as I'm sure you know. I don't see the point in paying any money on transfers or wages, knowing that this player will only be a bench warmer and only play if somebody's injured. We already have enough of them already. We want to get better and compete to try win trophies.

People saying we should sign the likes of Mcrorie, I get it's their opinion but it's madness. Why, cause he's Scottish and an ex player. If he was a different nationality he wouldn't even be looked at. Like I say, their standards and our standards have definitely fallen off a cliff of late.

07 May 2026 17:59:59
Why would he want to come and play second fiddle because we want two players for every position? Why would we pay £4m for a guy to sit on the bench or for another guy worth £4m to sit on the bench?

07 May 2026 18:01:22
We do pay up fees, but we have to pay portions of fee for Fernandes, Rommens, Chuckuwani, Antman Gassama, Miovski, Chermiti, Naderi, Aasgaard, Barron, Diomande, Bajrami, Cameron this summer.

Plus near 7 million in loan fees, salary etc.

It actually does not leave great deal of scope unless u sell the three, four Crown Jewels we have.

07 May 2026 18:37:37
John, some people think we can just spend willy nilly these days and don't understand this for some reason.

07 May 2026 18:38:16
Was it Doig Club that said they would accept 4 million or was it click bait or a report?

07 May 2026 18:43:38
Storm, I read a report saying 3.9 million pounds for Doig, no mention of discussion yet.

07 May 2026 18:51:22
Ok, if we're not going to spend a decent amount of money how do we manage to get at least 6 starter new signings into our starting 11 to make us much better, John. 🤔

07 May 2026 19:44:19
Expect to sell 2 of our best players for big money, John.

Prob Manny and Raskin and even Dio.

07 May 2026 19:47:00
Looks like standards have dropped from the club and expectation from some fans. Yes, there's reality, we can only spend so much on players, so why waste on mediocre players that are never first 11 starters is beyond me.

07 May 2026 19:47:56
Doing at a foreign club, John, so surely it's in euros.

07 May 2026 19:51:31
Storm, I'm presuming you're aiming your comment at me, spending money willy nilly. How's spending up to 4m on a great left back willy nilly. I'll tell you what, willy nilly is spending money over the course of a contract for players that are deemed as squad players and will only start if there's an injury. I'm sticking with what Sir Walter said, and it's true.

07 May 2026 19:57:32
Who are the 3 or 4 crown jewels that we have and where have they been all season?

07 May 2026 20:28:53
Walter, can you take me to post? I say we won't spend a decent sum of money. I say it has to be spent wisely. We r not at the stage of spending 4 for bench warmer.

We could sign three mb four OOC, all better than we have at present.




Wsl, imo Fernandes, Raskin, Chermiti and possibly Rommens can make us a lot of money.

I've just gone back and read one of your posts that we could get 30/40 million for first two, so u seem to agree we have players of value.

07 May 2026 20:30:58
Not sure what you mean re euros, Davy.

07 May 2026 20:52:19
Davie, it wasn't aimed at you, it's aimed at all the fans that think we have unlimited funds. We have a left back, we need someone that can fill in. We need at least a gk, 2 ch, a 6, a couple of wingers and another striker, so to spend 4 million on a left back is a no for me and doesn't make sense. When we need to get all the rest.

I don't know where the money is coming from for all of those, never mind another left back. A great left back in your opinion, also. How many times you seen him play in Italy? I love these questions because normally people lie. 👍.

The fact you think 4 million isn't a lot of money proves my point. 👍