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Like many players before him, he fell victim to strange shoehorning by his manager(s). Where did we play him? Left midfield/winger! Let's have a look at his stats ... For Rangers ... 44 games, on average 56 mins per game. Of those registered* (31): he played 14 as left midfield (3 goals / 0 assists), 2 as left winger. 10 (1/3) in attacking midfield, 3 (0/0) in central midfield. The rest of his career (including Rangers) ... 368 games, average 65 mins per game. Of those registered: 146 attacking midfield (oops) (24/24), 50 central midfield (6/4), 21 right winger (1/2), 21 left winger (3/5), 20 DM (1/1) and 18 left midfield (7/0). Like we did with Hagi, we utilized players in non-natural positions, rather than play them where they were (and probably are) at their best. Hagi was mainly a playmaker/AM (97 overall, 25 of which for Rangers), but we turned him into a right winger (77 overall, 53 for us). But God forbid, there had to be two DMs/CMs who contributed so much to our game ... Much of last season, we mostly played with 3 DMs/CMs ... the end product was predictable. * Not all positions played at every game have been registered at TM, mainly due to the lack of minutes being played.

If things go badly again he might be back before the end of November.

Good guy Balogun.

Kicking off the season at Hampden set us back right away and in truth we never really got going after that. The CL defeat with some corrupt refereeing really hurt us too. But our early season away form killed any title chance. If I recall we had one win from first 6 away games and had a negative GD at that point which is about a third of the way through. Never winning a title with that form. It was our inability to take the many good chances we created that cost us and even though Dessers ended up with a decent tally, his glaring misses cost us points time and time again. Our midfield took a while to gel and didnt chip in with enough goals to see us over the line in the games when the forwards were missing. Getting robbed in the LCF in December was a missed opportunity to get sacked the cheating scumbag Connor, and we had ample opportunities to get Walsh sacked/demoted too but our bottle merchant board do not fight our corner in these issues and we have no friends in the media willing to do the job alone. The SC defeat to Queens was a loss too far for Clement and he had to go but then bringing in BF was a total disaster IMO and we should have had a better plan ready to go as Clement was on a shoogly peg for ages so it wasnt as if it came from nowhere. Again the board to blame. The last 2 months of the season was pure torture, a dead rubber win at the piggery notwithstanding, and it was only the increasing talk of a takeover that prevented full scale revolt from the fans, who voted with their feet and numbers fell away massively in the last few games. A couple of decent performances and results in Europe, making the top 8 was a great achievement, especially so when 4 of our 8 opponents finished above us so we played the best on offer and came through admirably. Report card - team 5/10, board 0/10. Same old failings, same marks, must do better.

Think we all prefer it, if we want to be serious about buying young players and allowing them to develop. Then we need to accept we wont have many polished, complete players in the team. Your criticism could be equally applied to all of our players pretty much.

Tonight’s game it’s Real Betis 16/5 Chelsea 8/11 Draw23/10 Saturdays game it’s Inter Milan 2/1 PSG 21/20 Draw. 9/4

American health tycoon Andrew Cavenagh, who is the driving force behind the proposed takeover of Rangers, will meet the frontrunners for the Scottish Premiership club's head coach job - departing Real Madrid assistant Davide Ancelotti and former Southampton boss Russell Martin - this week. (Daily Record)

I prefer it when defenders don't constantly give the ball to the opposition. Maybe I'm a dinosaur.

Don’t think we’ll be bringing in any new stock until the takeover and manager is sorted

Yeah, because he is the finished article and wont improve as a player.

Or replace him with a left back who can manage to pass the ball to a teammate regularly.

That works both ways, the player probably wants to leave. If his agent is worth his salt he will find a willing buyer for a price that suits us, like he did with us. Not a Rangers transfer, just seen Como are triggering the option to buy Alex Valle from Barca, who was on loan to them at the start of the season. Barely got any gametime. 6 million euros.. Maybe we need to cut Jefte a bit more slack eh?

At the end of the day, he's worth what clubs are prepared to pay, or sell for. If we'd rather sell under and not be saddled with the player and end up making no money at all, it's at least something.

We can still get stung if we Martin Bain it. Thing is, just dont.

If there's no shortage of interest, then we won't get stung, there will be a bidding war surely.

Going by reports there is no shortage of interest from Germany and Italy. Why our supporters always want to chuck money away after players is a strange mindset. Other Mob FC regularly get good fees back for total duds. And yes, no more Albanians.

Hard to believe we paid £3.4 million for him someone saw us coming

You should suggest this to any interested parties. Good luck. I continue to stand by my 'don't sign Albanians' outlook.