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Scott Wright's Father has a bit of explaining to do:

James Sands, eh? I assume that 1. He is no relation 2. The Club will monitor his diet most carefully

Good luck Nathan - leave with (I'm sure) all our best wishes. Part of 55 and the invincibles- you are now part of the amazing history of our institution. Thanks for the service and hope to see you back at Ibrox either as a player, or as one of us cheering for the stands.

Will he be known as Slim Jim?

I think a fit Roofe is the best player we have. I think if he didn't have injury issues he would still be plying his trade at a top club in England

I'd rip your hand off for £20M for Morelos.

Further payments will be triggered by appearances and any future sale so we should remain interested to an extent. Some payments might even be triggered for his international appearances. Hard to imagine him kept out of the Scotch team if he is playing for Everton regularly.

I think Ross Wilson has taken Goldson too literally here when he said we were lacking hunger.

😂😂😂😂, a wee wind up on Twitter fishing for BEASTS

Sands is versatile, which always sounds good, but do they actually work out? Is he another Polster?

A loan with an option/obligation are quite common now, especially with Covid. It could be Greuther Furth...

The dream is over. I think they’ll make a good profit on him.

Jimmy Bell has allocated him no 80 SANDS 80 🤠

Done Deal. Well done young man. https://rng.rs/3pVaHHv

Only if you get to the front of the hand-ripping queue.

Sorry we have to keep Morelos as trying to get Roofe playing as Alfie does is a pipe dream Roofe is surplus to our requirements IMO.

I agree and its still a good market for us, there are good players available and moving to Germany/Belgium for 1-3 million at the moment. But specifically for the lad Sands if we are to pay a loan fee and a future fee that gets in the 6 million ball park. This boy has got to be one of our best players. Edit - loan to buy is a great idea for us, worked well with Kent, Hagi and Davis (1st time round). So like that approach.

Very skeptical of the Morelos report. Some interest maybe but £20m is not happening. January is a sellers market though and the best time to get good money from desperate English clubs.

Well, loan-fees will be significantly smaller than a straight buy, after all, this chap has a contract till 2026. US-boys are usually technically and physically good and we would see how he developes during the loan. A permanent fee after that would likewise be smaller and you would hope we have banked a few million from CL campaigns and player sales by then.

I'd sell Morelos and recall Itten. I think Itten would be a adequate; not great, but adequate. I would expect Wilson to have a few Strikers on a shortlist too.

I would sell him at that price. If we keep him and his form dips we won't get that fee in the summer. Clubs haven't exactly been queueing up to pay that kind of money for him. Porto and Lille were offering about half what's quoted here.

In the summer I would. Not now. Crucial period coming up and that CL spot is very big for us financially. Sakala is still hit and miss, Roofe is struggling with his fitness (that idea of deciding to take up international football at 28 was a great one). Goldson, Kamara, Aribo and Morelos are the 4 we need to keep to win the league this year. Sell in the summer for 3 of them if we must. Obviously Connor will walk in the summer regardless.

Rumour: OUT - Morelos Apparently Newcastle, Everton and Leicester all interested for around £20m Evening Times Link If true the fee could rise, with 3 clubs interested. I'd take it tbh, if we dont his head could get turned again then we have an unhappy Morelos for the rest of the season. Better to take the cash and with the Patterson money as well there would surely be some funds made available for a decent replacement.

I expect the bulk of it depends on them staying up.

Selling Patterson is a great move. It will have minimal impact on the quality of the squad as he wasn't playing very often anyway. If he stayed we would risk the possibility that he didn't develop as expected due to lack of matches.

One tweet I saw from a Celtic fan / blog had us £117M in debt. Wasn't worried about the state of our finances until I read that 🤷‍♂️😀

Patrick Caskie @patrickcaskie Danilho Doekhi has been linked for what must be the third time with Rangers, now more pertinent than ever given his contractual status. Only 23, evidently talented, and the current Vitesse captain, an apt replacement for Goldson. I've supported this idea since August.

Good win for Wolves at Old Trafford.

Tbh, who cares? Once he's gone, he's gone and our concerns should focus on those who stay.

First Footers and, "Jim fcuking Brogan". Our Ne'erday'72, first footers were the Maryhill Magyars, the Plastic Whistle, the Harry Wraggs, the ............... the Cuddly Toy of Scottish football, Partick Thistle. Half a century past, the Jags still had a working class support and the team could bite. They had defeated us 3-2 in the League's opening fixture at Firhill back on the first Saturday in September. As Davie McParland handed over the black bun and a dram at the foot of the marble staircase, he told Wullie Waddell they were in compensation for transfer of League Cup from our to their Trophy Room several weeks before. Forty thousand stood on the Stadium terraces awaiting the teams. My mates and I travelled to Ibrox that first of the first on the Tannochside RSC bus. The club was regarded in those days as, 'a Church Club'. Singing on the bus was confined to hymns, trips to Dundee and Aberdeen included a pre-match purvey where Grace was said and, the Committee wielded a big disciplinary stick. Ne'erday on the bus was different, the vast majority of members got on in a state of dehydration and sat down to pass the Ne'erday bottle. By the time the wheels reached Hamilton Road, the membership was largely inebriated again. The Bus Convenor interrupted the quiet revere by announcing any members identified as being on the Easter Road pitch on Christmas Day would be in front of the Committee. Thankfully, I had attended the Hibs game with my Old Man, two of the mates who gone on to the playing surface to celebrate Colin Stein's last minute winner; knew exuberance was NOT an acceptable excuse. Any type of exuberance on the Saviour's Day was not acceptable in Tannochside. Anyways, that was next Saturday's worry as the teams left the tunnel. Rangers - McCloy, Jardine, Denny, Greig, Jackson, Smith, McLean, Johnson, Stein, A MacDonald and, I McDonald. Partick Thistle - Rough, Hansen, Forsyth, Glavin, Campbell, Strachan, McQuade, Gibson, Coulson, Rae and, Lawrie. Rangers began well, the young injury ravaged winger, McDonald was providing penetration. Thistle ended the half better and deservedly scored on the stroke of half time through Denis McQuade, a wonderful top corner header. The Subway Loyal was alive and kicking back in the day too, and I doubt half the 40,000 attendance was still in place when Rangers both equalised and grabbed another injury time winner? John Greig brought us level on the 85th minute, and substitute, Derek Johnstone nodded home at the back stick to make it 2-1. An excited bus on the way home burst into song, we were ready to meet Spaniards by the score and the chorus at the Olde Club(Tannochside Miners Welfare) was, 'Bring on the Celtic'. We were two days away from visiting Parkhead. My Old Man secured two Main Stand tickets for the game on the 3rd, I was the fifth squeezed into Dad's mate, Campbell's Austin Maxi. I was fifteen but considered a boay among four adults. The forward area of the Stand was mixed and the row immediately to our front had two middle aged couples, both men wore the favours of our separated brethren, the wives were staunch. The teams lined up, Celtic - Connaghan, Hay, Brogan, Dalglish, McNeill, Connelly, Johnstone, Lennox, Deans, Callaghan and, Hood. Rangers - McCloy, Jardine, Mathieson, Greig, Jackson, Smith, McLean, Johnstone, Stein, MacDonald and, Johnston. The attendance was given as 70,0000 but these were the days of the biscuit tin, who can say? The game was typically frantic, surging from end to end. We looked comfortable until Harry Hood took control of the ball wide left of our penalty box, his ranging cross evaded everyone apart from the diminutive Jinky, who had to stoop to nod in at the back post on the 35th minute. The second half belonged to Rangers, we pushed them back and controlled the game. We had to wait until the 81st minute for Colin Stein's equaliser. The Lone Rangers latched on to a through ball, rode a tackle to get the shot away. Connaghan got a hand to the drive but the ball found the net. We were on to a third straight injury time winner, the remaining ten minutes were played in Celtic's box. In the first minute of time added on, McNeill took a free kick just outside his own box and found Harry Hood. As players ran past, Hood turned and curled a ball across our box, a late running Jim Brogan flicked his head and Karma had bitten us on the bum, again. In over 200 appearances, left back, Jim Brogan scored six goals, only one with his napper. The drama was immediately to our front, three of the four were in drunken slumber; however one of the females woke amid the eruption to ask, "who scored"? The awake chap punched the air screaming, "Jim Brogan". She replied, "Jim fcuking Brogan"? He lamped her as her mate awoke to remove her shoe and banjo him in turn with the heel. All four were removed by Glasgow's finest. We had played Celtic on four occasions in four months and lost all four. The following Friday brought news that ran interference with such an unpalatable fact, UEFA had drawn the ECWC quarter-finals. The eight teams remaining in the tournament were Rangers, Bayern Munich, Moscow Dynamo, Torino, Red Star Belgrade, Steau Bucharest, Dynamo Berlin and, Atvidabergs. The final club were the Swedish cup winners and clearly the weakest of the eight; however, they had knocked out the then current holders of the trophy, Chelsea in the last round. We drew Torino, daunting because a decade prior they had signed both Dennis Law and Joe Baker. We had eight weeks to prepare.

You mean she HAS had sex with a man? You sure?

it's a no-brainer in the sense that Tav would not yield so much in terms of fees received. If Sky is right and the deal could go as high as £16m then it's a good deal for us, Scotland and I think Everton, who will get a quality replacment for Seamus Coleman. Still I am disappointed that a good Scotland player is again leaving Rangers.

"Celtic have recently signed four Japanese players and sadly such provocative behaviour is both deliberate and not uncommon. The Drama Channels decision to begin transmission of all three series of Tenko today is anti-catholic and anti-Irish". Cathcart MSP, James Dornan expressed outrage at the Drama Channel's attempt to subjugate the peoples of Ireland. Today, Sky's Drama channel is beginning to broadcast all three series of the Japanese controlled internment camp drama set in Singapore during world war two. Civilian wives and children were separated from their Fathers and interned in a jungle camp where they faced appalling conditions including malnutrition, disease, violence and, death. The Imperial Japanese Army characters, Major Yamauchi, Captain Sato, Sgt Shinya and, Corporal Kasaki were characterised as, "a separate entity" by Kabuki Theatre spokesperson, Hitori no Otoko(One Guy). Tenko begins on Drama Channel today at 14.15 hrs. Celtic have been so far unavailable for comment but a Drama Channel spokesperson, Sum Cnut said, "Banzai".

Strange take on it!. NP signing for Everton is exactly the reason the academy is there! like Gilmour before him. To get into the 1st team they have to be better than the current player in his position, right now Tav is a better player and that is why he can't get more game time. I would rather see Patterson stay, however totally understand why he will sign for Everton, it's the best thing for him and the club at this time. NP is a cracking player and I wish him all the best, I'm certain he will have a great career, a player Rangers produced.

Adam Devine Weston Mayo king Kelly Kennedy Mcpake. Take your pick. You have to wonder if its worthwhile form any of these kids to hang about. If Patterson couldnt get a game with his talent then the writing must be on the wall for the rest of them.

Huge talent and sad to see him go ... but he won`t get game time and this solution will thus be the best for both parties. Word from Italy that we`ve bid Euro 6m for Skov Olson.

New link to A.S. Olsson and soe Dutch chap from Leeds IN - Andreas Skov Olsen - Bologna, 21, RW, Denmark, contract till 6/2024 - LINK - new LINK- TM IN - James Sands - New York City, 21, CB, USA, contract till 2026 - LINK - TM IN - Crysencio Summerville - Leeds United, 20, RW, Dutch, contract till 2023 - LINK - TM

My report on todays Lowland League game https://rfcyouths.wordpress.com/2021/12/28/colts-break-vales-resistance/

I’d like to know who it was who decided to pursue this from HMRC. And whether there was political influence. And what implications are for winning in the Supreme Court in terms of chasing other EBT schemes. Whyte was spot on when he said HMRC would appeal and appeal until they got it into the civil courts where they knew they stood a better chance of winning and they did. Whether HMRC expected to win is another matter But this weeks news that BDO are contesting £51m of the £64m so-called oldco debt is very interesting indeed