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I am refusing to allow myself to be driven mad this transfer window.

I can just see it...

Especially when they plan to use it for council houses, and no doubt it will house residents who will object to any future developments in the area the club try to put forward. It was a bad idea.

All clubs are doing this now, basically managing outgoing finances in terms of financial fair play etc. I think Diomande is on a similar basis?.

The ongoing work in the stadium is great, but selling off a large part of the Albion is so frustrating. We've owned it for many years and it's part of our history. For the directors to sell it off to finance their (perhaps needed) vanity project of NEH is short-sighted. Future generations will lose whatever benefit they may have had from it. It'll be gone forever once it's sold for flats.

If you find yourself disorientated in Berlin and want to know the direction home? My advice is the same as it was forty years past when I was charged with Berllin's anti-tank defence plan, follow the Soviet/Russian tanks, they will be heading west.

Don't bother booking a hotel in Berlin as you'll have no shortage of hospitality from some fellow Gersnetters 😉 .

What's going on?! Sensible transfers, completed early ...

I'm sure I read or heard that there will be no home friendlies this Summer, for that very reason.

I served something like four years or so in the then West Germany and I was only present once during a Soviet defection. The two Red Army formations facing us were 3 Guards Army and 7th Shock Army, 18 Divisions plus support against our four in BAOR. One hot summers Sunday, a T64 MBT came careering out of the wood line, zigzagging across the wheat field. I requested weapons free permission and provided the RA with the appropriate x-ray grid. I was told to, "wait out". The distance from their wood line to ours was nearly 4K but, it crashed into the trees about 300 metres to our left and, the crew poured out. They were howling drunk. It took a couple of days but Intelligence got back saying they had been expecting something over the weekend but had no specifics thus, no warning order. Hence, no weapons free permission either. Apparently, the 7th Shock Army had received their quarterly black boot polish bulk allocation the day before. A troop of three tank crews had placed their blocks of boot polish on loafs in direct sunlight, the industrial alcohol percolated into the bread and, they consumed it. An hour later, three of them decided on the mazy run. The others were blind drunk, literally. I suspect I have just contravened the Official Secrets Act?

I forgot we're playing Manchester United at Murrayfield on 20th July. Strangely, even though Murrayfield is only about a 25 minute walk from my house, I have no intention of attending that one, mainly due to the ticket price.

Great news. Signing young hungry players with enormous potential. Early in the window. That's how to do it.

Reference Cortes,. there is an obvious danger of the longer the lad is out injured, the better a player he becomes. On the half-a-dozen games played, he looked an exciting young winger. A good spot by the Gaffer because he provided the team with balance on the right. I thought after the five nil scudding of Hearts at Ibrox, he was the piece in the jigsaw that would propel us to league winning celebrations. The very next game, Killie on the drastic plastic and he became the fourth Ranger to suffer long term injury on that surface.

That's good news! He looked really good in the brief time we saw him.

Sensible Transfers: Rangers.

I suppose for this kind of oversight, if that is what is is, we need either a significant shareholding, or a coterie of 'activist' shareholders. The experiments in supporter group shareholding have been less than unalloyed successes, I think it fair to say. From the outside, it looks like supporters, or those who purport to be representative of them, are more likely to be keeping a watchful eye on each other, than on the activities of the Board, and the Company generally. At least part of the role of supporters' shareholding groups is, I take it, to be 'activist' shareholders (the other-major- part, I think, is to attempt to move to 'fan ownership', which is whole different scenario). It may prove difficult for an individual 'activist' or group of 'activists' to influence, far less control policy and direction, without taking the fan shareholding groups along (good luck with that), and where other shareholders have not only significant shareholdings, themselves, but also are creditors, whether soft, or medium, or hard. You might hope that the media, especially the business media, would expose outright blackguardism, or just plain bad business practice, but, as @Scott7 points out, above, the press, etc. is full of whores, rogues, and Irish dancers. I suppose, really, that we can't do much to determine direction, and strategy, any more than we can influence the Manager (or the Football Division) to buy, or not to buy, Lawrence Shankland. The support did, I suppose, stop the match in Australia happening, but in the great scheme of things...? Investing in football clubs should, perhaps, be looked at as a long term option, and, actually, should not be done on grounds of sentimentality, or boyhood affection. The aim should be to enhance the share value, the overall value of the Club. To do that requires that the product (sorry) is improved, season by season, which means continuing success on the field of play. Generate income, reduce debt, keep the ball rolling, and implement a proper acquisitions and disposals strategy, and win. And this is where we return to the question of particular expertise and experience. The road to Hell, they say, is paved with good intentions. Rangers' experience is that is also paved with ill intentions.

@compowill suggest Gullane at some point. 😃

I was at the Museum before the Dundee game. Its well worth a visit

I am just as glad. I seldom enjoy them and see it as a donation. As such, I won't be donating to the Man Utd one.

Agreed. It is good to have a museum and to have NEH, but did it really have to be at the cost of selling off our land around the stadium? Surely it could have been financed in some other way, perhaps over a longer period of time.

Whilst agreeing with you regarding the museum, I don't think any of the events held at NEH have been sold out. No point of having it if the fans don't use it.

Whatever happened to: If they play on the street, we will watch them from the pavements? (Facetious; I'm sorry.) Ibrox, or at least the Edmiston frontage, is a Category B listed building ie is a building of architectural or historic interest, considered a major example of a particular period, style, or building type. As such, there is an obligation on the Club to maintain it for the continuing edification and delight of the populace, and, of course, the tourist.

Aye but just from what I heard from my bluenose mates - they thought he was brilliant. Sanderson not as effusive.

I'll be honest - I thought he was good when he played for us, I didn't think he was great though which seems to be the general feeling towards him. If he can get anything like 20-25 G/A next season then we're laughing right enough. A good, well thought out transfer that could reap rewards down the line. Koppen seems to be switched on.

I would've went if it was £20 or thereabouts but the cheapest tickets are about £45 - total rip off.

Agreed. I immediately discounted the idea myself for that reason. Felt exploitative.

To defect?

His brother wasn't to bad either

It does say obligation, so we'll be buying him next Summer.

Let’s hope it’s an option to buy & not an obligation to buy. He needs to prove his fitness over a full season first

Good first bit of business..... just need to keep the guy fit and we have a great record of that with players.... oh wait

Few could cross a ball like wee Tommy

Try Butlins

They are not worth it and 50% is not doubling 100% is.

He's just a little feller. Got them scrappin eyes though. Long road. Hopefully.