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... of Salernitana, played at Lazio last season, 34 games, 9 goals, 3 assists. Looks like a young version of Marvin Andrews. ... and is on a 2-year loan at Lazio till 2026.

I'd agree ... and then I checked his injury record. It would suit our signings just as well, Tav would play on till retirement ...

Rangers could be set to miss out on striker target Dor Turgeman due to rising conflict in the Middle East, according to reports. Turgeman has been on the radar at Ibrox and some reports even suggested a deal to bring him from Maccabi Tel Aviv could be close. Sport 5 report that Maccabi are now thinking it may be unwise to sell on key players as they will find it tough to attract replacements from overseas. The report suggests the striker "certainly" won't be sold prior to the Champions League qualifiers against Cypriots Pafos next month. And they may also decide to significantly up the asking price for any of their players who are attracting interest, to make selling up more palatable. https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/sport/25257272.rangers-dor-turgemen-deal-doubt-middle-east-conflict/ Maybe the Tel Aviv high-ups messed up our transfer plans as well. Speaking of which, how about keeping this thread on topic?

German free TV shows the games of Bayern and Dortmund ... just had one half of Borussia vs Mamelodi Sundowns as my first bits and pieces of this "premium event". Always good to see these better African sides, since their players have quite a lot of skill, control, pace, and power ... but also that sort of light-heartedness whilst going about their business. Same we saw in Sakala and now Diomande. Too bad that they tend to lose their way a bit if fortunes turn against them. NB: That suicidal pass by their lackadaisical keeper seemingly cost Mamelodi dearly in the first half.

Never seen such an athletic pack of muscles and energy, constantly having this or that injury.

Like I said before, right (defensive) midfield might be an option for Tavernier (he's contracted, after all), in a more defensive line up, or a 3-5-2. Let him have less defensive duties and utilize his strengths. But we need to step forward and if we get better quality, we should go for it. Never seen or heard anything about Aarons, so no comment for the time being.

Okay, you sit in the far corner this evening!

Right, strap yourselves in ... a rumour! According to a Turkish reporter, the Ibrox side are tracking Eintracht Frankfurt attacker Igor Matanović, with regard to bringing him to Glasgow. The player still has another four years left on his contract with the Bundesliga outfit, but due to a lack of gametime, he could be available for a fee of around €5m (£4.2m). That could be within Kevin Thelwell's budget at Ibrox if he can move Dessers on for a substantial fee, should a move to Athens go through in the coming days or weeks. https://www.footballfancast.com/rangers-tracking-move-for-igor-matanovic-next-jelavic/

Wait ... Europeans aside, Souttar is half-Aussie, Nsiala is half-Congolese, Jefte and Danilo are South Americans (Brazil), Cifuentes too (Ecuador), Ridvan a Turk, Sterling half-Jamaican, Diomande half Ivory Coast/half-Ghana, Igamane North-African ... will we finally look at Asians, or North-Americans? 😱 UEFA-technically ... Ridvan is European too, so too would be Turgeman (but I doubt they see it that way).

No winter break then ... and you wonder how many games we might play if you add CL ... nah, EL games to that list. Falkirk is back, no longer at Brockville though, which I know from late 1980s BBC World Service commentaries. We had that short Scots line "Better meddle wi' the de'il than the Bairns o' Fa'kirk" in one of our English studies seminars ages ago.

Tav telling Shankland to finally sign for us! You saw it there first ... TBH, there is but one serious looking guy in that photo. And he's clearly an ambassador for his club.

Yep, heard that an era or two ago over on FF. Someone described a raving reporter as being "just a bawhair's width away from the loony bin".

To say that transfer news are slow is a nice understatement. Its speed can be measured in "Angstrom per Week" these days ... PS: The angstrom (/ˈæŋstrəm/; ANG-strəm) is a unit of length equal to 10−10 m; that is, one ten-billionth of a metre, a hundred-millionth of a centimetre, 0.1 nanometre, or 100 picometres.

I was assuming that he's off right now ... so his value of 20-25m will not depend on him signing an option right now.

Some random twitter link ... ... while Souttar seemingly had a hernia OP so is out for 4 to 6 weeks.