Rangers rumours 4

01 Jul 2026 20:12:45
Hearing that DM wants to assess Lyall Cameron over pre-season before making a decision on his future.

Apparently he'll decide whether to keep him as a squad player, send him out on loan again, or potentially even sell him. 🥲

I really hope he impresses because I was one of many who was delighted when we signed him. I genuinely think if he can kick on another level, we'll have a very good player on our hands.

Hopefully McInnes decides to keep him.

I suppose a lot will also depend on who else comes in for the midfield and who ends up leaving before the window closes.

Anyone got any more info on his situation?

01 Jul 2026 22:18:19
There's a lot that has to be done to create squad harmony.

But Nsiala and Cameron won't be part of the squad come the end of the window.

Like Butland's comments before he returned for the first day of pre-season.

What's said on camera doesn't always match what's already playing out behind the scenes.

01 Jul 2026 22:18:30
Damn he's either staying or leaving? 👀

01 Jul 2026 22:38:36
What were Butland's comments?

01 Jul 2026 22:44:46
AR32,

You're not the 1st to say he's possibly looking likely to leave.
But hoping DM might see something different.

But your info is always good, mate,

Be sorry to see him leave, if I'm honest. Really thought he would be a great wee addition to the squad when we signed Cameron.

01 Jul 2026 22:50:13
CalB,

I knew someone would say that when I wrote it. 😃
My point being, I heard DM was possibly taking pre season to make a decision.

But, as AR32 has said, he's leaving, and he's not the first poster to say this. Another couple have said same thing, who are good with info.

So, thought I'd post what I'd heard in case circumstances had changed.


But, going by AR32 doesn't sound like it has.
Unless I'm hearing a more up to date change of direction and DM decides to keep him.

Suppose time will tell.

As I said, I liked him and had hoped we would give him a chance to play with the new players coming in.

01 Jul 2026 23:42:09
We need better than Cameron. If he wasn't Scottish, nobody would say keep.

02 Jul 2026 05:17:45
Well, we were told we need Scottish players that know how to perform in our league. Cameron fits that description.

02 Jul 2026 07:26:58
Having spoken to both Nsiala and Cameron this week, they are both under the impression that they have a chance to impress - as is McCausland.

02 Jul 2026 08:16:21
Not too fussed about Cameron. Think he was only signed on all the hype.

02 Jul 2026 08:23:31
If "on all the hype" means a very good season for Dundee and deserving the move then yes, all the hype.

02 Jul 2026 08:39:37
Value what u say as always, EHL, but hope you're wrong and I'm correct.

We have no chance if we line up a midfield 4 including Barron, Cameron and MaCausland.

Powder puff springs to mind.

Reiterating, what's said to players sometimes differs from what's playing out in the background on both sides, not just the clubs.



Can assure u, both players and MaCausland are actively looking at other options.

02 Jul 2026 08:48:56
I thought signing players based on their ability to perform well in the SPFL was our new business model? Cameron was great for Dundee and tipped for big things. Is he a Rangers fan? Doesn't he tick all the boxes?

02 Jul 2026 09:07:39
AR32, I spoke to players who have been told they have no future and players who have been told they are being given time to prove themselves.

Having worked with McInnes previously, he's not someone that plays mind games, so if players have been told they're being given a chance, they are being given a chance, which can only be a good thing as there is nothing to lose from this, i.e. the three players in question aren't on huge salaries and won't command significant fees.

I also know that McInnes would have been very direct in terms of what he needs to see from them in order to impress, so there really is no grey area in this one.

They step up or they move on.

In terms of the players looking at other options, of course they are. It would be foolish for them not to as there is a realistic chance that within a few weeks they are advised that they aren't in the manager's plans.

Personally, I think our squad would be stronger with all three; however, not one of them would be a starter.

02 Jul 2026 09:40:21
Thanks EHL, great insight.

Refreshing to hear, to be honest. It differs, as u will know, to previous managers and how they managed similar situations.

Agree they are not a financial burden. For me, my only concern, as to them still being around the squad, is then blocking the development pathways of others.

Lawson, Glasgow, Rice to name but 3, being more around our young boys.

Some have also been given assurances as to their chances this season.

Those players may block, hinder those chances.

I would much rather give those spaces to players with much higher ceilings rather than players who have had their chance, not taken it and now winding down their contracts.

We've been there all too often unfortunately.

02 Jul 2026 09:45:52
I never liked McCausland. I don't think I ever seen him hit the byline. Get the ball, stop, turn back and give it to Tav. Get rid.

02 Jul 2026 09:53:24
AR32, I actually think it would be more beneficial to our pathway to retain those players than it would be to move them on and replace them.

We have no youth players who are ready to step up and contribute regular first team minutes. So, they either need to go on loan to develop or continue to play in the U19's whilst training with the first team and rotating in and out the match day squads.



If we don't have the right depth of squad in the first team, the youth players who aren't ready can't go on loan or end up missing huge chunks of U19's football as they're warming the bench every match day.

02 Jul 2026 10:13:57
Very valid points, EHL, my bias to our current younger players clear for all to see. :)

Would hope Lawson would be one who can step up and into our first team outwidth any loan.

All going well, Bailey and one more next year.

01 Jul 2026 19:46:48
Ignore earlier post, rumour is Steinwender who has just moved to Bochum from Hearts, seems even more unreliable and rubbish online page.

01 Jul 2026 19:37:40
Christian Tovar from Bochum. Being reported from unreliable sources and I have no idea if any truth in it.

01 Jul 2026 19:54:20
Ignore totally misread online post.

01 Jul 2026 19:04:19
Just been told a name but I have absolutely no knowledge of the player. Contact told me left sided defensive player that can play CB, LB & DCM. Young lad by the name of Jorthy Mokio 18 years old playing with Ajax. Anyone heard anything about this lad and our club

01 Jul 2026 19:30:51
What about John Stones as a replacement foe Big Manny and potential Captain? Not ITK just wondering!

01 Jul 2026 19:35:20
I know who I'd rather have as our captain, mate. 💪

01 Jul 2026 19:41:14
Ok, so this isn't the first time that someone has suggested John Stones. Folk do realise that he's just left one of if not the top team in England and was on something like £200, 000 a week. Are folk suggesting him actually living on the same planet?

01 Jul 2026 19:51:29
He'd have to take a 95% pay cut.

01 Jul 2026 20:15:27
Stones would be a good signing. Different players are motivated in different ways. Money, honours, route to player manager, etc. He is still a good player with a lot to offer.

01 Jul 2026 20:17:39
Was on. He is not going to get that anymore, prob still get 40-60k a week mind you.

01 Jul 2026 20:26:06
£200k per week is just over £20M for a 2 year contract, so same as Ferguson. 😉

01 Jul 2026 20:44:42
An EPL team will give him over a hundred grand a week easily. Some of those teams' boards think they are playing Football Manager.

01 Jul 2026 20:55:54
Stones is not coming to Ibrox, this is not Football Manager, it's real life.

01 Jul 2026 20:58:51
He's in talks with AC Milan and Bayern Munich.

01 Jul 2026 20:59:49
DavieCooperFan, unless Stones is 'motivated' by taking roughly a £175000 a week pay cut, going from challenging for the English Prem league every year and playing Champions League every season to playing against the likes of Falkirk, St Mirren and Dundee away each week.

Then talk of players like him is just nonsense. He's still currently in the England national team set up. In what universe is a player like that a serious target for us?

01 Jul 2026 21:01:25
Like Angus said, could use some sells money for him, I mean, the guys won it all in England & would be worth it if we added an injury clause. Tomiyasu asked to leave Arsenal & took a massive paycut to join Ajax & simply wants to play football. We should at least try to get players of that quality when they are OoC.

01 Jul 2026 21:16:41
Mokio was their starting CB last season. He'll be sold for huge money.

01 Jul 2026 21:34:27
Think Angus may just have been joking, DJB. Let's not also forget OOC players expect the money saved on transfer fees to be their signing on fees nowadays, as well as getting a huge wage.

01 Jul 2026 22:03:40
Kaiser, thank you for spotting I was. But, in a way, also to show that spending over £17m on one player at, say, the age of 27 isn't really any better of a way to spend that amount of money. Over £20M with no return on that investment. I know CL money, but we could do that equally as easily with 3 x £6M players.

01 Jul 2026 22:07:36
Gers78, I suppose it would be the universe that you can buy Claudio Cannigia from Dundee, get a Glen Kamra for £50k, and Brian Laudrup gives 100% to make sure you beat Dunfermline Athletic at East End Park. Anything can happen in football.

01 Jul 2026 22:36:26
So 3 times in how many years. 🤷

01 Jul 2026 22:47:31
No, Davie, just no. None of that is comparable at all. We got Cannigia from Dundee as he'd had a number of years of personal troubles, had hardly played any football for over 2 years, signed for Dundee as his good friend was part owner of the club at the time, regained his love of football and fiord and we then snapped him up as could easily offer higher wages than Dundee. Kamara was £50, 000 as he was signed on a pre-contract from Dundee and, previous to Dundee, had only been lower league in England so getting him early only cost buttons. Nothing even slightly unusual there.

And we signed Laudrup at a time when we were able to offer similar (if not more) in wages than English teams, along with virtually guaranteed Champions League football. So all of those situations are, yet again, in a totally different universe than even thinking about signing a current English international, who's just leaving the arguably best team over the last 5 years, in arguably the best league in Europe if not the world, who is used to playing at the best levels of football and earning wages equivalent to ten of our top earners per week.

01 Jul 2026 22:50:05
What's your point, caller?

01 Jul 2026 23:07:11
Kaiser, there are players though who are OOC, we could try & sign that we'd never be able to buy. Stones is someone we'd have a 0.01% chance to sign, but you never know until you try. Oxlade-Chamberlin was someone I didn't see showing up in Scotland (despite being terrible).

02 Jul 2026 07:25:46
The truth is, the days of us bringing in top class players are over and will probably never return. I personally dream that one day we leave Scotland for England, but it probably will never happen, so basically we are stuck with trying to entice players to our club, but our league is a big drawback as it's seen as a second rate league.

It doesn't help it's run by clowns, but it is what it is. We need to be realistic in who we can attract nowadays.

02 Jul 2026 09:17:33
We can't always buy players for the future. Sometimes we will buy players where we make a significant loss if they are exceptional, like Ferguson.
At 27, we would be hoping for 7-8 years service as a main player. Raskin cost £1m and will go for £20m+. So, if the model is working with several other players, there is room for the odd signing where we don't get a financial ROI, but his value is in what he brings on the park.


After Neil signed on a free though. So don't think we will go for Lewis unless Raskin money becomes ridiculous or we get another massive fee for Chermiti or Fernandez as well as Raskin cash.

01 Jul 2026 18:36:14
Seen a lot of rumours in here, all for positions we are well covered (numbers wise).

Any rumours out there on wingers? We need a LW and RW that is going to contribute double figures in goals and assists.

01 Jul 2026 19:02:25
Devlin - think it's a definite.
E Just - hearing good rumours.
Possibly Abu Kamarra?

All wingers.

01 Jul 2026 19:10:23
Heard as soon as they knocked out World Cup, Devlin will be announced.

01 Jul 2026 19:29:28
I would love both. Mikey Moore back.
N Cerney, n give Curtis a run as well. 3 talented pacy wingers.

01 Jul 2026 19:29:30
Is Devlin not a Def Mid?

01 Jul 2026 19:37:23
Devlin's a CM, and I am sure just does most of his work at CAM.

01 Jul 2026 19:43:19
Coisty, he is - sorry, the way I said that up there was wrong, he can play on the wing too.

He has played out wide before on a few occasions, so primarily not a winger but can play in that position.


Can cover a few positions, so will be a good utility player in the squad and I think he will be a great wee addition. 😊

01 Jul 2026 20:45:54
Yeah Stig, I agree, will be a great utility player and for free I think it's good business.

01 Jul 2026 21:07:31
So we're announcing Devlin after Australia get knocked out but we announced Pandur when he's there. If we wanted Devlin, it would have been done. I'm really hoping we've on & aren't signing him.

We need 2 RWs if Antman's been told he can go.

We don't need a LW unless Gassama or Curtis leave. I'd only bring Moore back if we can get him permanently or on a 2 year loan, plus Gassama got more goals & assists than him. I'm hearing De Zerbi wants to keep him around too.

01 Jul 2026 21:37:55
We got Pandur early because Hull needed the deal done yesterday or they would be deducted points. Most other WC players are waiting till its over to focus on the cup.

01 Jul 2026 22:09:11
Devlin is neither a winger, nor an attacking midfielder. Devlin is a defensive central midfielder. Basically, a more aggressive Barron. Devlin had elite defensive stats and almost no attacking output.

02 Jul 2026 05:20:49
Give Curtis a full season on that left-wing and he'll score double figures. Gassama can be his backup.

That right-wing has been a problem position for about a decade. We need a player of real quality brought in to play there, a difference maker. Then we need to get a second rw to be his back-up.

01 Jul 2026 18:33:57
Ibrox u picking up Thornton could be standing down from the board.

01 Jul 2026 18:43:48
John, is there unrest if Thornton is standing down, or was it always the plan?

01 Jul 2026 21:05:24
Ally, initially, his role was to see the smooth integration of the new board.

01 Jul 2026 21:31:43
Thanks, John, as always, much appreciated.

01 Jul 2026 23:26:21
Taylor is leaving by mutual consent.

02 Jul 2026 00:58:45
John, I haven't spoken with him recently and I'm currently overseas. Wouldn't surprise me, with the pace of change and Jim Gillespie now in firm control. Fraser is a very good man though, and I'd hope he'd be around for longer. He's also a genuine shorter and has done a lot of great work behind the scenes.

01 Jul 2026 18:32:02
Just had a message there saying Elijah Just from Motherwell may just pick us over the interest Celtic have shown.

Could we be getting Just and Watt? 👀

What a window this is turning into.

Loving all the potential talent and rumours surrounding us this transfer window.

It feels like we're back to the old days, being linked with exciting young players who could come in, make a real impact and strengthen the squad.

😎💙.

01 Jul 2026 18:38:45
Where have we been linked with Watt?

01 Jul 2026 18:41:53
Just doesn't excite me much, but I'll get behind him if he does sign.

Watt would be a great signing, but I can see us signing Devlin instead.

01 Jul 2026 18:43:42
That would be a coupe' if we got both those boys, Stig. There could be something in it as somebody posted earlier, we were (rumoured) to be going after two signings from the same team.

Exciting stuff!!

01 Jul 2026 18:48:13
Not sure how much he'd cost us, and I think he's 26? Would get behind the signing, but not one that's got me overly buzzing.

01 Jul 2026 18:52:54
Foolmonty, EHL had said possibly another from Hull.
Could be Abu Kamara, as EHL confirmed to my post to him, possibly.

Watt and just would be great additions.

As would Skoglund and Widell, who I've been mentioning for some time, who we are apparently very much interested in signing this window.

01 Jul 2026 18:53:35
I hope not that we sign Watt! Or just as neither improve on what we currently have!

01 Jul 2026 19:07:44
Would rather have signed Just before the World Cup, as I think his fee will be higher now after the 3 goals. Would be happy with that signing, as my friends associated with Motherwell all speak very highly about the lad and any time I've seen him he's looked a good player.
I'm not that bothered with Watt as I think we currently have better.

01 Jul 2026 20:59:33
I don't think we will sign Just and I ain't bothered either. Watt has had one good season. He is a journey man and not what we need.

01 Jul 2026 22:09:04
They aren't young, both 26 years old, & I find it hard to get excited for 2 players who have had 1 good season in a team that played a certain way under a certain manager, 1 good during their career so far & both haven't sold & left OoC. They'll not be playing the same way at us as they did at Motherwell, & for how good they were at Motherwell, they still finished 4th.



I would take Just & maybe Watt if they want 2.5 million or under, but they won't be. Elijah Just's stats are similar to our current wingers. Aasagaard has less assists & the same goals, yet folks want rid of him. I'd take Just right, simply cause we need a RW, but I'm sure we could find better than both of them.

01 Jul 2026 22:13:08
Signing the 3 of Watt, Just and Devlin won't win us the league. Maybe Devlin would help our squad, just possibly? But signing all 3 would be a mistake. Not too keen on Watt.