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I'm curious what people think the captaincy entails. Do people think he should be changing formations on the pitch during games? Over-ruling the management team on tactics and selections perhaps? Maybe telling the board to sell certain players and who to buy? The expectation some seem to have regarding what the captain does is very strange. The captain is the bridge between the dressing room and the manager, he's who helps new players settle into the squad, who lets's the manager know if someone has an issue, perhaps unconnected to football, who makes sure the various media duties the squad need to do are covered. He's the guy who swaps pennants and calls the coin toss, he'll give an encouraging word or a harsh one to a teammate when appropriate. This suggestion that he's responsible for our ills is ludicrous. At the age of 30 Wes Morgan captained Leicester City to the league title, it was the first honour he'd won in football. Some captains never win anything in their entire career, that doesn't make them bad captains. It's a team game, teams win and lose, not individuals.

Polis refused to sanction it. They said that the risk of violence between pro-Tav and anti-Tav factions was too high.

Tav as a captain is subjective. We don't see a lot of what he does. He captained us to 55 and a lot of memorable euro runs, including a final. It's difficult to assess given the lack of quality in the team at certain times. As a player, overall, he's been really good. He's scored a lot of important goals and was integral to 55 and reaching Seville. Our style of play required an attacking full back and arguably we would have performed a lot worse as a team with someone who didn't have his attacking qualities and better defensive ability. There were quite a few seasons where he was the only one in the team driving us forward on the 80th minute, for example. There have been defensive lapses at times but he's not a £50 million player, and it's to be expected that he's not going to be perfect. He's slowed up now and doesn't offer what he did 3 years ago and I'd hope we get another full back in. I can understand people criticising his performances at times or wanting another player in when he's poor, but I do find the Tav hate a bit tiresome.

He will see this season out as captain, which I'm fine with. he is a good professional, works hard, never any bother in or around his personal life, a focused family man. A good role model for younger players. Always fit and available. A top player at his peak, he was unplayable at times and probably the most influential figure in our run to Seville. If we wants to see his time out here then I'm happy for him to do so, he has a contract and deserves it. Ideally I'd like his wages off the payroll but it is not going to happen. BUT He has clearly declined physically as a player, he should be used sparingly. The club should see this as an opportunity to bring in young RB with potential to share the season with him. That's up to our head coach and DoF. That's not on the player.

Raskin is a must sell unless he signs a new contract. We can't get into another Kent/Morelos situation. Our operating model means we have to sell.

Top scorer in the league = dud hahaha. The new owners have been in 5mins and the transfer window is barely open and some are equating it to previous transfer windows under previous owners. Its as if the previous decade of mismanagement didn't happen and that the new owners should have fixed all the issues by now Honestly, some of our "fans" are absolutely bonkers.

Now is the perfect time to sell him. He will be 31 later this year and have 1 year of his contract left next summer. Getting our money back after 2 good years of Dessers is smart. We have to trust our recruitment process or there is no point in recruiting.

I must be in the minority, but I don't think I've ever developed a connection with any Rangers player. Other than Josh Windass, of course, but that transcends mere fan adoration, and hits me on a deep spiritual level.

I'm far from a fanboi, but Tav has been a fantastic buy for our club, Anyone who doesn't think so is clearly quite delusional.

You are left with modern football which is rubbish. Nobody should be forming emotional attachments to random mercenaries like Dessers, Igamane and Raskin.

Players are cattle. Some need to be sent to market so we can afford new ones and maintain the rest. You cant always grow your own as we well know. Fans need to realise the game has changed. Random Moroccans and Belgians have no affinity with the club or the support. Its a job with a stepping stone to a another, better paid job.

We've screamed for a player trading model that works. That requires detaching any 'emotion' we may have to any / all players. If the model works, we recieve £xxM for 3 players, that's then used to buy 6 players and the cycle continues and the risk reduces. Each player has a price and if that price is Mey, we sell and move on. It's the only way can work.

Ridvan needs to be told he is done here and needs to go.

To blame Tav for all the ills the team has suffered is to ignore the turbulence the club went through in 2012 and since. We lost most of our decent players and have been playing catchup since. It is ignoring the poor quality of many of our signings, the lack of funds, the spivs draining money out of the club, flip flopping on sporting director model, giving the money to Beale etc etc. One of the constants throughout most of that has been Tav and I doubt he will have what it takes to play every game and if that is the case he won't. I believe we owe him our gratitude and respect.

Well we need a Garibaldi in the dugout.

If Raskin doesn't sign a new contract we have to sell him. We can't continue the cycle of our best players / assets running their contracts down and leaving for nothing (or next to nothing). That's what the previous board did and it led to a situation where we were unable to operate / function. We can't (and won't) continue down that road.

We aren't at the spend 10M on potential stage in our yet to be established player trading model. We are currently still in the annual heavy loss model... ...or the bring in 810,000 for 5 sales and 4 loans whilst committing 4M to Cortes model.

He's not worth it.

If we were offered £15m for Raskin, I think we'd take it and I wouldn't have a problem with that.

I'd be happy with Mulligan. He looks like a young, athletic player, able to play midfield and WB. He could be useful.

Selling Igamane, Raskin and Dessers for £40-50m would be terrific business.

Eriksen is a big no for me, we've been a retirement home to enough players that would be 'good enough for up here' thank you very much.

Not interested mate so I'll sit this one out

It's not Tav's fault if he's just been following instructions. It's clear that he's been asked to play as an inverted full back on occasions over the last couple of seasons.

When talking about Ally McCoist goalscoring records, including 2 golden boots, do we discount his penalties? "Remove the penalties" - just another tool used by the Anti-Tav brigade. A goal is a goal is a goal is a goal etc etc

We're going through managers at some rate, these days. Sending them to a gun fight, armed with a knife has a predictable end.

I'm not debating the quality of the guy, you think a guy that Southampton paid 16 million for last summer, and is probably on 70k a week is realistic target for us?

Rangers FC LLC is a limited company registered in Delaware. There are 2 other Rangers companies registered in Delaware - Rangers FC Investors LLC and Rangers FC Investors Manager LLC. My guess is that they are either dormant or are vehicles for parts of the consortium to have their investments in the holding company. The shareholders of a Delaware company are not publicly available. Delaware's corporate laws prioritise privacy, and shareholder information is not part of the public record. Just thought I'd add this in case anyone was interested.

A portion of twenty quid won't go far 😉 10M well spent is better than 20M poorly spent. Celtic spent around 20M on Engels and Idah, whilst we spent around 5M-6M on Raskin and Dessers. I'd rate our two players as currently better.

He's already here: our own little Napoleon, Nico Raskin.

Martin was hardly going to come out and let the world know, after one day in the job, that Tav would be dropped as Captain and sold. Maybe Martin was showing a bit of respect to Tavernier who has played about 350 times for us.

Christ, loads of folk in the stands these days are called Liam and Aiden. The game's a bogey! I blame daft women liking Irish names.

Best of luck Issame. Once a Ranger always a Ranger. A shame he had to move on without even a chance to say goodbye to the fans.

If that is how it goes, fair play. I would suggest that spending £10m on an 18-year-old is not the model we should be following. There's far too much risk involved, and we just don't have that kind of money to spend on one player.

Buying clubs know this and will bid accordingly. One of the reasons that I think we won't get close to 25M.

If these are the 3 players (or assets) being branded then 15m for Igamane should be the priority. He has a bit of talent but not consistent and obviously hasnt settled off the park. Raskin is a must keep unless its silly money. Dessers gets the numbers week in week out even though he can disappear for 89 minutes - he can be sold only if its good business.

Surname red flags, just saying.

Surely getting emotionally attached to players is half of what football is all about? I accept it's illogical and childish but if you remove emotion from football what are you left with? I'm not disputing the validity of the business model, but it's ok not to want your best players sold, even if it's inevitable.

Fingers crossed AEK meet our valuation very soon.

Tell the Greeks to keep the money. I just want to see Dessers kissing the badge, and tripping over the ball, in a pre-season friendly.

Maybe you could use that to bring in newer players.

We should sell Butland if we can find a buyer he's lost the plot .

My first Rangers manager was 'Wallace 1' but the first appointment I saw happen was Greig. Spare a thought for the poor bastards who have only known a post Walter 2 society. In a lot more ways than one. First six appointments on above list span from 1954 until 1986 (32 years) Last six (before Martin) 2015 until 2025 (10 years)

If RM is to continue with his style of football surely a goalkeeper who can kick the ball without scaring the shit out of us is top priority. Ball playing defenders must be high on his wanted list too, after all we must have leaked around fifteen or twenty goals more than the manky mob.

There is a distinct lack of transparency on various things to do with the takeover and going forward. We have venture capitalists in charge now, not major shareholders with an emotional attachment.

Dear AI, those other players also played alongside far superior players compared to those Tavernier played with.

You can’t win them on your own. Even Greig couldn’t. Tavernier is a below average defender with an astonishingly good attacking flair and an ability to score goals from open play as well as by competently taken penalties and brilliantly struck freekicks. Rangers have had their money’s worth out of him. I would still have preferred an above average defender. He’s not a good captain. He maybe only got the job for lack of anyone better. Goldson wouldn’t have been great at it either and I can’t think of anyone else.

No amount of justification can explain why John Greig wasn't a 'serial loser' during Celtics originally 9-in-a-row, yet Tav is. It doesn't matter if we were 1 point or 101 points behind we lost the league. So either both are serial losers, or neither are. The reality is, not 1 single player can be held fully responsible for years of losing titles, be it Tav or John Greig.

Maybe, just maybe, it's not successive managers, countless teammates, opposition players and managers that are clueless about Tav...........