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Touting one’s horn? Disgraceful. Ladies and young children might be reading this board. On second thoughts, they’re probably not. ”Tooting” might be safer. “blowing” should be avoided. The mischief is put right by ditching “horn” for “trumpet”

He’s not that great a player, but a £10 million bid is derisory? A bit of a contradiction? If there's no release clause, he doesn't sign the contract and there's no £10 million.

If anyone seriously thought that when we signed this young guy 3 years ago that we would be getting £10million , you would have been sectioned . I love the guy as a footballer but this is a fantastic deal for us .

Aribo is clearly a great player. That said his first 2 seasons every time he hit top form he got injured and took a while to come back to form. Last year he had a serious dip in form for months from Jan after starting brilliantly. We can replace him I am sure of it.

I did too - when I saw Aribo play the League One play off final for Charlton he looked an absolute baller - wanted us to sign him when I saw him and that summer we did. I had no doubts the boy would be great up here and, largely he has. He is worth way more than 10 million, of that I have no doubt - but last year of his contract dictates what we can do - and the answer is largely nothing. If he isnt signing we have to get the best we can.... so to get his release clause value is pretty solid business

I'm this scenario, Aribo would just see out the last year of his contract and walk away for nothing. Don't you think we've offered Aribo an extension? If he decided not to sign it, what are we to do? Lock him in a room and refuse to release him until he signs? £10M for a player who could sign a pre-contract in less than 6 months isn't derisory, it's good business.

How is it crap? Crap would be losing him for nothing in less than 6 months time.

Just cannot understand how anyone can think this is anything but a great deal. (Providing we get the £10m by whatever method.) Aribo has been a great player for us. Despite Bowyer's protestations when he signed, we developed him into a better player, he's won two medals and played in a major European final (in which he scored). However, he now wants to move on. It could be argued that those 70 games last season was just too many as he has looked a shadow of the player he was. Regardless of where in England he goes, he will play considerably less games given the superior squads and lack of Euro football. That and the huge increase in wages will compensate I'm sure. We will miss him but I think the time is right for him to move on.

I think we should just pick random Rangers supporters from Twitter and the forums to conduct our transfer negotiations. They clearly know how to do it much better than the people employed to do it.

Yeah but I guess it all depends on how deals and contracts are structured. They got more than that for Edouard but also had to stump up 40% sell-on fee to PSG - admittedly that would be the contract between clubs rather than between player and club. But as has already been said, we may not have gotten Aribo in the first place had we not agreed to a sell-on clause being inserted into the contract.

Just thought I'd drop this in here.

Quite right to hold them there it stops the media rats up here from getting news.

Whos Bogonda? Not seen him mentioned yet, I assume from a little help from Uncle Google, Théo Bongonda?

Was probably the best keeping performance I have ever witnessed.

Aribo played 70 matches last season, and, now, it seems that he will leave -for So'ton, apparently- and receive considerably more money for considerably less work. In another occupation, I should term this a proper promotion. Despite this, it is a step down for him, as is the case for the vast majority who leave, and playing at Ibrox, for Rangers, is likely to be the highlight of his career.

This is the perfect scenario, for us: sign young, hungry players with raw ability, for next to nothing; get them playing a lot of games, developing their all-round game; then sell after 2-3 years. That's why I have been saying that Morelos and Kamara should have been sold last year or the year before. (Kamara less so because he's signed a new deal, so we can extend his stay a little.)

I don't like to tout my own horn, but, I did. I feel the same with Kamara, too. It took some of you a while to come around to recognising Kamara's ability.

If he goes to the Saints good luck,as it is more than likely a wage increase as he is unlikely to play in Europe and have "Ibrox" nights. However he might conceivably use it as a stepping stone to bigger clubs if he improves at the same rate as he did here.

It really isn't. It's good business.

compo, we play in Scotland. If we want to attract young English prospects up here, then contracts like Aribo's are all part of that. I sometimes read Rangers forums and wonder where people get their ideas from...it certainly isn't in the real world.

Considering we got him for next to nothing, we've had great value for money, he's going into the last year of his contract and most importantly, has a £10m release clause, I'd say £10m is a fantastic return. This is exactly what we need to be doing more of.

An opening for young Lowry to step up

I'm pretty sure any new recruits will be paraded in the new top. 🤣

I think that is very wishful thinking. Those numbers came from respected sources, not Celtic, and I’m sure their accounts were consistent with them.

Totally agree. I was attending a company seminar and managed to find a room that i could tune into the match and was sat beside 4 Leeds supporters who where relaying the turf at Ibrox that very day. After the match they were full of praise for our Goalie and quote them almost word for word " that is the best goalkeeping performance we have ever witnessed, that bastard won the match for you on his own" , well there was his performance and the fact that IMO we scored our best ever away European goal that night.

Ten million for Aribo is great business. He made some worthy contributions during his time at Rangers but was no world beater and is far from irreplaceable.

To get Aribo to choose Scottish football and sign for us in the first place, we would have almost certainly had to allow his agent/lawyer to have a significant say in what clauses were in his contract. That, on top of more direct financial inducements, on top of the reported 250-300,000 pound fee In other words, they would have made sure that player had a big say in how his time at Rangers would end. If we do get somewhere close to 10M when he has one year left on his deal, then I'd say those initial negotiations were reasonably fair to both sides and on the pitch, he has done more or less what we would have hoped for. We could have insisted to him and his advsors that you have to do it strictly our way, he might well have stayed in England.

From our homepage, the teams against Partick looked very yound. First half: Jon McLaughlin James Tavernier - Connor Goldson - Leon King - Adam Devine Scott Arfield -John Lundstram - Alex Lowry Scott Wright - Fashion Sakala - Glenn Middleton (Dunno whether Wright or Middleton played left or right wing, I assume it was as above.) 1-0 Lundstram (Tavernier, Wright) 1-1 Graham 2-1 Sakala (Wright) Robby McCrorie Mateusz Zukowski - James Sands - Nikola Katic - Jack Simpson Cole McKinnon - Stephen Kelly - Charlie McCann Josh McPake - Tony Weston - Ross McCausland 2-2 Smith Ure -> Weston 3-2 McPake