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Probably Sterling missing due to severe dizziness from confusion of where to play?😈

Not to sound like captain obvious but we also need to install a 'No Dickhead Policy', for want of a better term, when scouting potential targets. Thorough background and character references - players who show up well in a dressing room and against adversity. Players who want to be the best they can be rather than coming to collect a big signing on fee and paycheck. We've had some pull out of playing because they aren't 100% imo. That's not on. Maybe I'm shouting at the clouds though - I'm just fed up of seeing a team full of 'crocks' and chancers.

Is our only hope that Celtic sign Harry Kane?

In terms of the current list I would hope it's a case of resting a few players (e.g. Sterling, Balogun, Souttar) with next weekend's Cup final as our priority but the club simply must find out the root cause of all these injuries and remedy it immediately.

There are many possibilities, just like picking your own favourite serial killer. I think Matondo goes under the radar. never seems to be fit for more than 3 games.

This season Jack - a personal favourite of mine - has been the worst. Usually it's Roofe.

I don't disagree with the retained list but I just can't see how we shift Tav and Goldson outwith Saudi money. Both have 2 years left (criminal), legs have completely gone and have a really poor recent CV (post Seville). Although I am encouraged by the links we've had in the market in recent weeks. Qerfeld, Cordoba and Mofokeng are all players in markets we should be looking at at the right age profile too. Clement today saying we need to replace the experience that will be leaving is a nonsense though, the average age of the starting XI next season needs to come down by about 4 or 5 years compared to this - if that means it takes a couple of seasons to hit a groove and gel then so be it. And don't give me the pish that you don't win with youngsters either - Arsenal have a young team atm and are pushing City to the last day...but guess what? They'll get better and better. If there's Bosmans out there like Alzate or Ben Johnson to be done then by all means do it - but I want the actual transfer fee's spent on youth, athleticism and potential. Sellable assets basically. Hopefully this post makes sense.

No i got it spot on. The final straw for the medical staff was 366.25 earth rotations ago

There's definitely something rotten in our whole medical department.

I’m not doing much tomorrow night I could look out the old brown boots

People need to realise that isn’t the managers fault. Signing players with previous injury records has to stop. These players were signed by previous managers & DoF’s SAF used to always say before you sign a player….check his attendance record.

I believe the orange top is an invitation by the club to join the dots, make a picture and, win a major prize.

Given the scale of injuries we now have, we really are down to the bare bones in terms of selection. We still have an XI capable of winning but this side doesn't scream character or physicality so Dundee will be keen to get stuck in tomorrow not. I, erm, can't wait... Regarding injuries, this has gone beyond an issue to joke about now. Yes, the manager has suggested they know the reason for our continual injuries but the sheer number of these muscle problems in almost every week of the season is something the board of the club have to explain.

Well, Beale not being in charge of recruitment will mean an upgrade on last Summer's efforts. We need to recruit better across the football side of things - it's that simple. I think it will take 2-3 windows to sort the squad out. There's a lot of dross needs cleared out and that's the biggest immediate issue.

Boards?! Bean counters?! K.P.I.s?! Make it stop. Please.

That is unfortunately the current outlook. The board always said that the investment would be front loaded and that resulted in us getting 55 and Seville. There's little to no further investment on the horizon as far as I can see. We now need to be self-sustaining and that's going to be limiting. We had a chance this season and we did remarkably well to win our Europa group and claw back the deficit, but it just fell away from us at the end, for whatever reason...partly overperforming and partly injuries (and other reasons). Not winning the league this season allows them to invest bigger and it's going to be more difficult to overtake them. I'm not sure that there are further investors out there who will be willing to invest significant sums in a club in Scotland, so we need to manage our resources better and hope for a bit of luck but we're still suffering from the legacy of being sent down the leagues and it will take some clever handling by the management team to claw it back overt the next few years.

Not bad if you leave out the blue measles.

I don't think it's all doom and gloom. We're making progress behind the scenes. The commercial side is improving. I much prefer our footballing structure to theirs. They're in a false position after 10 years of easy CL money, not because they're well-run per se; they've had it easy. We've got our recruitment wrong in the last few windows and haven't sold when values were high - mainly because we didn't have a DoF with more control and left it to a manager. The Beale appointment was a mistake, too. We should have won the league this year, despite poor recruitment, letting them have a head start after Beale's poor start, and a squad decimated by injuries. We've got a good opportunity this summer with a lot of high-wage players out of contract.

Celtc are no great shakes. With some good recruitment we can win the league.

@Rousseau will be appointing the Director of Football. He's too modest to reveal this. And, he couldn't take the cut in wages to do it himself.

the germans could maybe go for mick beale he's available

We have given them stupid big contracts for players who had already peaked.

A few short weeks ago, Rangers was in poll position, in the the box seats, in the League, and we should be looking, today, at clinching the title, tomorrow, or next weekend. That we are not is mainly down to the players, aided by an horrendous injury list, if we were to be scrupulously fair. I have thought, on and off, for a while, that this season was, and is, a 'free hit' for M Clement and his coaching, etc. staff, and that this was known, understood, and agreed by him, and by the board, at Day 1. I concede that this is purely speculation, but when MB departed, did anybody really think that the team would have won the League Cup, reached the final of the Scottish, and been so in control of the League Championship that winning it was in its grasp? Did anybody really think that winning the 23/24 League Flag was a sine qua non for continued employment of manager and coaches? I don't think anybody did, and the reason for the general grumpiness, now, is that the opportunity to win the Title slipped, dashing raised expectations. (Continued capitulation to PIE FC did not help). I assume that manager and coaches have now a clear idea of who is worth their salt, and who isn't, who has the stones, and who doesn't, who is a malingerer, and who isn't, who has the talent, and who doesn't, whom they can trust, and whom they can't, who they can improve, and whom they can't, and so on.... If we can have a decent stab at putting names to these categories, then surely to God, a coaching team of guys who have played and coached professionally can see this with greater clarity. Next season is not, cannot and will not be a 'free hit', and the Key Performance Indicator must be: Win the fucking League.

Touche.

Say his name. G'on.

Ian Durrant?

I'll help you out: he likes a cheeky doner.

It needs both in my opinion and urgently.

Our xG (blue) and xGA (red) over the course of the season. Clement comes in at the first St Mirren match. You can see a clear upturn in the xG, pretty much over the course - along with some fluctuations. Our xGA has been good, until the last 9 games, when it starts creeping up.

No one is saying that.

Yeah, I knew as soon as I replied what to expect.

Maybe someone will suggest we move to the English leagues. Not had that one for a while.

Maybe they are immeasurable but after another season of horrendous injuries, overall poor recruitment, players taking weeks to recover from niggles, poor trading model, poor fitness levels etc, we have to change the way do things. It may not result in us winning the league, but not changing the above will certainly mean we'll regress further.

They chuck missiles at our players, laugh in their faces and basically have a jolly whenever they play us. Gerrard got it and drilled into our players that we need to hate them back and it worked. Why do other managers not do this? Why do our players not know instinctively what's required? Why do we play the same way there as we do at any other away match? Are the too many left footers at Rangers? I'm f*cking sick of it.

Run out of money and havent got the new owners in place?

Your the only other person I’ve seen say that, I’ve said myself plenty from what I have seen of him he looks a waste of 6 million. Not sure why so many see him as some kind of striker panacea.

Someone on FF posted Thursday Barisic, Lawrence and Davies were going to play. Celtic played Forrest only to run at Barisic.

Aye, it's Kenny Miller....... Seriously though, it's either someone has inside knowledge or they got lucky with an educated guess. Always hard to tell. As an example, there is a poster on Follow Follow who broke the Jack Butland transfer in the summer well before it hit the media. He is now claiming Butland is returning South in the summer for £21M. Some people believing him, some others "dissing" him.

Of all the players Beale signed last summer only 3 started today: Butland, Sterling & Dessers. Lammers & Cifuentes never worked out. Both won’t be back from loans Danillo is injured & failed to impress so far. Sima has done well but is a loan signing & unlikely to be back next season unless as another loan signing in the final year of his Brighton contract before we’d get him as a permanent signing Balogen is 36 & injured and unlikely to be back next season Clement signed 3 players in January: diomande who looks an average MF player whom we need to pay £4.5m for. Cortes signs on loan & played 6 games before getting injured. Silva on loan from Wolves but no chance signing Conclusion: recruitment must improve

Rangers closing in on Jose Cordoba deal with Levski Sofia It appears that Rangers’ first signing of the summer, however, will not be a forward, a midfielder or a left-back. Rangers Review reports that Clement’s side have entered ‘advanced talks’ to sign Jose Cordoba from Bulgarian outfit Levski Sofia. A left-sided centre-half who represents Panama at international level, the allegedly £3 million-rated Cordoba was in the stands as Rangers beat Kilmarnock 4-1 on Sunday. A result which kept the blue-clad outfit within touching distance of Celtic ahead of this weekend’s Old Firm derby.