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I find the talk of revenge, with regards to Progres, embarrassing. Revenge is taken upon people or parties who have done you wrong. Progres are a small club who deserved to put us out (we were shocking in the away tie). It's not about revenge - it's about getting Rangers back into a respectable position in European football. We're better than that or at least we should be.

Happy to look and investigate anywhere but the rancid club he supports. What happened to justice being blind and there for all? Clearly not if you have the right friends in the right places. The sooner this joke of a so-called justice minister is voted out of the office along with the rest of his SNP mates the better. I hope the victims of the Celtic abuse scandal get the justice they deserve but it will be a long time coming while Celtic know they are protected by the likes of Humza. It makes me sick to see this clown in charge of justice in Scotland.

Why would you worry about grammar or spelling when your target audience can barely read?

Time will tell the fans will be his judge.

I would call it the exercising of the ghost of Caixinha.

While Rino's (and Helander's) comments are interesting, the quality of that piece of journalism from the Rhebel is ridiculously poor. Does nobody check these articles before they go live for spelling and grammar? At least 3 errors in that small piece.

That will be fun. Maybe it's shaping up to be our year including settling old scores.

Well, my Oracle told me...

He should be in pre-season with his current employers so he shouldn't be that far off

Yes will be different without Hazard, but then again there were many games where he just didnt turn up. When up for it he was in the top bracket in Europe, but sadly that happened less and less. Christian Pullisic is not like for like but at £60m Chelsea are paying for his potential and with Kante in his proper position - that will save us a fair few points that we squandered last year as teams waltzed past Jorginho!! I think we will still be on a par with Arsenal and Utd and it will again be those 3 fighting for 4th place, though unless Spurs sign some players they will be in the mix also.

For me it would be more than embarrassing if we were to fail to dispose of progres again. Imagine the ridicule that would attract especially after spending millions on the squad.

One of the commentators said it was hard to believe that St Josephs had lost a European tie 10-0 on aggregate within the last couple of years. Not really as a repeat of that is on the cards now.

Don't forget we'll be back LIVE this Sunday at 9.30pm on YouTube. @rfb1872 will be back in the presenter's chair and he'll be joined by @plgsarmy and @Big Jaws to analyse Sunday's friendly v Marseille and next Thursday's second leg v St Joseph's.

Thanks @Gaffer I especially like that you think he looked quick, as I dont think Goldson is the quickest and we can struggle against the counter sometimes because of this, so it looks like we have identified the exact type of player we need and went out and (hopefully) got him. I dont mind spending this kind of fee for a player with international caps who has played fairly successfully in a top tier league (even more so when it is a defender in Serie A).

Who have you got in mind Coop? Some of the biggest fines have been to large powerful clubs, AC Milan were fined €12 million last season for example, Chelsea have a current transfer ban, Man City are facing something similar and were fined €40 million a few years ago, although it was downgraded to a still fairly eye-watering €17 million. UEFA do a lot wrong but they're fairly consistent in their treatment of clubs for stuff like that. The Tims have been charged something like 9 times in recent seasons. The fines they've got have been in keeping with fines other clubs got for similar offences.

it will be good to see a big Helander at the heart of the defence.....

I don't agree that the Progres result was anywhere near our worst, and nor did I think it was embarrassing. Disappointing, but not embarrassing. We just didn't really appreciate how poor our team was, and were ignorant to how some of these teams have improved. Progres is definitely a chapter we'd all like to forget, but it's a vastly improved team since we played them last and we will have to play well to beat them. I won't be thinking about revenge. I'll be thinking that it's another step towards us regaining our credibility in European football, and another game to enjoy.

They never bother about getting the facts right, so it's little wonder the spelling and grammar is so poor. I don't take anything from these articles and prefer to see a player for myself, but in his case I have seen the player and I know we have a bargain. The last time I saw him was probably October last year and he really stood out for me. He's obviously a big powerful guy, but I liked the way he was so agressive in winning the ball. He covered the pitch well and to me looked very quick. His distribution was good too, although he tried a few longer passes and they went astray. The main thing about him was that he looked as if he'd win every header and tackle, even when he was not the favourite for the challenge. That's why he stood out despite the other obvious talent on the pitch. The team was not playing well and he looked at times like he was a one man defence. I'm delighted if he joins us.

You don't get journalism from a comic.

There's no justice in Scotland, any more than there is effective policing, healthcare, education or financial governance. Humza Yousaf is as equipped to be Justice Secretary as my cat ... but only just. It's hard to know whether by design or incompetence but it seems the SNP is hell bent on dismantling anything of worth in Scotland. They've reduced politics to a display of petty bigotry and Humza Yousaf is no worse than many other senior SNP figures in government at Holyrood. The idea he would put loyalty to his football club before the interests of its paedophile victims is no less fanciful than a Transport Secretary who thinks the hokey kokey is an anti-catholic ritual ... or that a university dropout is capable of managing the country's finances. I used to think it would be impossible for any political party to accumulate more low-grade flotsam than pre-devolution Labour but it's clear the SNP has scraped deeper barrels and managed to find even more inept chancers to do its business all over Scottish life. Humza Yousaf will continue to protect Celtic FC, just as the SNP will continue to refuse to release information on its commercial relationship with its current Health Secretary. Rotten to its core.

Perhaps revenge is the wrong word, but righting a wrong will be high on our fans minds. Losing to Progres was the worst result in our entire history, and our manager (sic) should have been sacked before we landed back in Glasgow. I was there and it was a fantastic day until kick off. Progres were absolutely awful, lacking in basic ability, and we managed to sink to their level and match them. Since then however they seem to have improved significantly, their European results have been far more eye-opening that what that team I watched should have been able to achieve, so clearly they are on an upcurve and took great confidence from beating a big side (in name only at that time granted), so I dont think we will get this easy at all, perhaps a couple of goals to the good. I cant see it being the demolition that I really want to lay the ghost of 2017 to bed. However anything other than a safe passage to round 3 will be a calamity.

Thanks for that; that was interesting. I feel he's a really frustrating player! In the sense that he has a decent all-round game, but perhaps not a master at anything. Is that harsh? You're right. However... His passing looks poor because he played further forward. (Having a look, he played CM/CAM, ahead of two DMs, in a 3-5-2 quite often.) From a team at the bottom of the league, I would expect a lot of high energy attacks, with little support, that fizzle out. I think that's what his stats show -- I certainly recall a lot of video clips of him running 50 yards plus to take a shot. His best attributes are dribbles, forward passes, passes into the box, touches in the box (I suspect the box at Shrewsbury would be pretty open?), and shots. All of that, to me, suggests he suits the RCM position in our team; that's what we'd need. He maybe doesn't have the controlled passing of a Kamara or Davis, but his ability to get forward by carrying the ball will be useful, I feel. I know I was rather frustrated at our inability to carry the ball past players last season, to open up space. His defensive duels and fouls interest me: he makes a lot of duels and fouls, but loses most of them. I suspect he's stopping counters. I doubt he'll win many, chasing back that way. Again, I think that suits a RCM role in our team. If we're countered, I'd like our players to foul. I don't need to tell you about Man City! The least little hint of a counter and Fernandinho has clattered the attacker! We need that.

Embarrassing was going out to them. Talk of revenge is just another lazy and routine narrative in Scottish fitbaw. Not worth getting upset over. We need to try and finish the tie in the first leg so the 2nd leg team can be picked thinking in the opening league game.

McGregor Tav - Goldson - Helander - Barisic Davis - Kamara Ojo - Arfield - Jones New Biggest difeerence is that there are lots of options for different types of games. My XI above would be for a game against Hamilton (A)......Aribo was difficult to leave out. You could probably select 3 or 4 different sides/formations and you'd be confident of them doing a job. Over to SG&Co to make the right calls at the right time.

He’s heading out to Ayr on loan apparently

i think the best thing about this thread is that there is so many options now in our squad depending on who we play against. gerrard has done a great job this summer so far.

It will be good to hear the Mo Jo story from a Rangers supporter's perspective. Too much of the narrative has centred around the apparent anger and resistance of Rangers supporters towards the transfer, those people did exist, but they were a small percentage they shouldn't dominate the story the way they seem too. I worked as printer at that time. We were a union shop, everyone had to join a trade union when you worked there, printing, along with most skilled trades at that time, was heavily unionised. There was a big dispute between the main print unions and Rupert Murdoch and his papers, The Times, Sunday Times, News Of The World and The Sun. They'd opened a print plant in east London and Kinning Park in Glasgow and had deliberately employed non-union printers and associated trades. There were pickets every night and a lot of anger and resentment. In another forum I'd explain the long term consequences of the dispute, but for this story the point of it is to explain why The Sun was banned from our work. The Sun carried the exclusive story of Johnson's signing on its front page. None of the other papers had the story. We were a small-ish printers in Glasgow filled with bluenoses, none of who had any idea this had happened. Around mid-morning a delivery driver told one of the guys and no one believed him, we all thought it was a wind-up. Then towards lunchtime it came on the Radio Clyde news, we were dumb struck, it seemed impossible. It wasn't so much that we'd signed an RC, John Spencer had been at the club for a few years too much tabloid fanfare and I never heard anyone say a bad word against him. But Spencer was different, he was a Rangers supporter, Mo Johnson definitely wasn't. I think if we'd signed a Brazilian or a Spaniard or Italian most Rangers fans would have shrugged and waited to see if he was any good. But we all knew Maurice Johnston. Most of the Rangers supporters in my work that day burst out laughing; this was the biggest get-it-up-you we could possibly give Celtic, it was hilarious. They'd literally paraded him as their player a few weeks before and he was treated like the prodigal son returning by their support. Now he was sitting beside a grinning Souness saying how much he was looking forward to pulling on the light blue. It seemed unreal. The Celtic support went into meltdown. The board, Billy McNeill and of course Johnson himself were called for everything. In my opinion they struggled to accept the signing far more than the Rangers support did. For many of them the thought that a Glasgow raised, Catholic schooled, Celtic supporting player would consider signing for Rangers seemed impossible. That the highest profile, and arguably the one of the best, just had, rocked their very foundations. It's not hyperbole to say that I'm not sure they've ever really recovered from it. I think much of the hatred so many of them have for us and the apparent need to demonise and stereotype us stems from that signing. I knew Rangers supporters who were very unsure about it too. Most I knew had a problem with the person, rather than his religion. Johnson had a criminal record, something that would have once discounted you from playing for Rangers, he'd a reputation for being a playboy, there were substantial rumours of illegitimate children around the city not being acknowledged by him, he'd been charged with serious assault after a fight in a nightclub, and of course, he was an ex-Celtic player and someone seen as being 'one of theirs' by everyone at Rangers. Could a player with that upbringing really give 100% to our club? The answer was an emphatic yes. I watched his Scottish debut in a friendly at Broomfield against the deeply unreconstructed Airdrie. Five minutes in the Section B boys began a chant of 'who's the Fenian in the blue', which drew smiles from many in our support, but was rejoined with the first chant of Mo, Mo Super Mo, from us. Johnson demonstrated what we'd bought that day. He worked harder than McCoist, he was faster and more mobile, he was a selfless player as well, playing with his back to goal or leading the line he'd drag defenders wide for others to break through, he never gave defenders a minutes peace. Scoring the winner a few months later against Celtic at Ibrox sealed the deal for any remaining doubters of his commitment. His legacy is worth exploring at some point too. After signing Johnson literally nobody was off limits to Rangers. I've heard rumours of Souness asking Gough to tap up Paul McStay at Scotland matches to see if he was interested in crossing the city, Celtic knew no one was beyond us now and that messed with their phycological make-up. They'd always relied on the best young Catholic players gravitating to them and being paid less and treated more poorly than others in the past, now they knew that couldn't happen. Wages starting going up at Parkhead, putting a strain on the famous biscuit tin, Rangers started to be linked with every player, helping us dominate the back pages driving the Celtic support into even deeper apoplexy, and so began a run of dominance for Rangers almost unmatched in Scottish football history. Signing 'wee Mo' played a big part in that. On almost every level the signing was a masterstroke and a big success. Johnson was a very good player who contributed a lot to the side particularly in his first season. I'd argue his signing forced McCoist to work on his game and develop into one of the best players in our history. I'd also argue that signing Johnson so damaged Celtic that they've never got over it, whilst we now look back on it as just another big signing. Ironically, our other big signing that summer, was probably even more important to our continued success. Trevor Steven was a sublime footballer who provided so many of what we now call 'assists'. The other big realisation of course is that 30 years ago we were signing some of the best players available in the UK, how times have changed.

30 years, unreal. I think it was a masterstroke from Souness to add goals to Rangers and remove goals from Celtic - at the time he was in the top 3 of Scottish strikers. My memories of it was seeing Mo Jo signing for Celtic and I remember saying that may help Celtic win the league then all of a sudden he is unvealed at Ibrox and I recall the evening news interviewing Bears outside Ibrox who were throwing their season tickets back.

Lampard officially unveiled. I think he will do OK. For a start he will put Kante back into his proper holding midfield position which will improve them and going forward they still have Pedro, Willian, Barkley, Hudson-Odoi with the new player Pulisic coming in. So I think they will get 4th.