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Don't know, but for the love of *insert something that is important to you* I cannot understand what people want Whyte to say here. Speak publicly about confidential business dealings and strategies? The going on's behind his businesses with and beyond Rangers? Have you EVER heard any whispers about somesuch under/from Marlborough, Murray or from the Desmond figure beyond the Irish Sea? In times when HMRC et al look/-ed at our behaviour with eagle-eyes?

He comes out with essentially all he can and has to say at the moment, whether we like it or not. Whether we are the individual supporter or some thousand-strong association. It is IMHO essential that he does not spill any beans ahead of any verdict on the case, for each little bit he does will end up in the press and be turned about until it paints us and him in a bad light. That is what happened ever since he took over.

This is perhaps the most testing time for the club, but you do wonder - after all the debates that have been done about this - why people do actually fear for the existence of the club? It will not cease to exist, whether or not the verdict goes against us. Whether or not we get 250 points deducted for these next 12 years or whatnot. We took it all in our stride, these dozens of years of success under Souness, Smith, McLeish, Advocaat et al. We should be able to take the odd year of "failure" or "dispair" into our stride as well. Rangers are for life, not for the glory seasons.

A more complete list ...

IN:

#24 Mervan Celik â?? Contract till 2015

Out:

#9 Nikica Jelavić â?? sold (£6m+ Everton FC)

#10 John Fleck â?? (Contract till 2013, loaned to Blackpool FC)

#17 Juan Manuel Ortiz â?? (Contract till 2014, loaned to Almeira, Spain)

#36 Darren Cole â?? (Contract till 2012, loaned to Partick Thistle FC)

#33 Thomas Kind Bendiksen - released (turned down contract, Tromsø IL)

#23 Jordan McMillan â?? sold (Contract till 2012, refused extention; Dunfermline Atletic)

#35 Kyle Hutton â?? (contract till 2014, loaned to Dunfermline Atletic)

#3 David Weir â?? released

Jack Werndly - (loaned to Albion Rovers)

Marc Dyer - (loaned to Ayr United)

Sam McMahon - released (?, Doncaster Rovers)

Freddie Espling - released (?, Djurgarden)

Nicolaj Kohlert - released (?, Silkeborg)

On trial:

Luigi Bruins, Jamael Cox, Matthew Mbuta

Some news ...

Cameroon international Matthew Mbuta has arrived in Scotland in an attempt to win a contract with Rangers after quitting Crystal Palace Baltimore and has described himself as a forward and not a midfielder. (Daily Express)

 

Brisbane Roar say they are monitoring former captain Matt McKay's situation at Rangers but say they are not planning an approach to take the midfielder back on loan as yet, with the Australian transfer window open until the middle of the month. (Daily Express)

 

Legia Warsaw are trying to sign Derek Riordan, the forward who has had trials with Kilmarnock and Blackpool after leaving Shaanzi Chan-Ba. (the Sun)

could be news on the tax case! then again id loved to have been a fly on the wall during craig and allys talk yesterday??

As I asked before, was Whyte even there? A lot of assumptions by the press yesterday ... and the Bears went into overdrive about it.

On a sidenote, Celik is an attacking midfielder that can play as a striker, Bruins too, if he's still there. There are still some decent enough (for the SPL) forwards about on a free, you just have to snap them up.

Oh wait, was there a similar article when they invited a terrorist-gloryifing music band to perform at their ground?

We have been in that state off the pitch for these last three or more years. It was on the pitch that the titles were decided and it will be much the same this time around (unless HMRC intervenes).

So it has closed ... what can you say but ...

Let others come after us. We welcome the chase. It is healthy for all of us. We will never hide from it. Never fear, inevitably we will have our years of failure, and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity. No matter the days of anxiety that come our way, we shall emerge stronger because of the trials to be overcome. That has been the philosophy of the Rangers since the days of the gallant pioneers.

As I have said and as has been said, there are still loads of freebies around which we can sign from now till the end of the season. Will there be more Alukos? Who knows.

Yeah we could pick a team from that but when you look at injuries, we are well and truly fucked!

True enough. That was the point many made at the start of the season. IMHO, our main problem was that Naismith and Lafferty as well as Hemmings all got injured at the same time. How likely is that to happen again though? We saw in these last couple of games that we can create and put away enough chances to "survive" in the SPL. What was evident was that our utter lack of using the squad left us with too many people without much playing time and thus people not being sharp enough, e.g. Healy and Kerkar. I do not see them as saviours, but given some more playing time and utilizing them all (sic!) to their full potential, we still have enough people up there to compete for some time to come. In an ideal world, I would hope that we get some more freebies (Jaager and/or some strikers (Kalu Uche?)) in. We have to wait and see.

Current (21.13) revised squad to win title 55 this season:

GK - McGregor, Alexander, Gallacher

FB - Whittaker, Broadfoot, Papac, Wallace

CD - Goian, Bocanegra, Bartley, Perry

CM - Davis, Edu, McCulloch, McKay, McCabe

OM - Wylde, Bedoya, Naismith, Aluko, Celik

ST - Lafferty, Healy, Hemmings, Kerkar, Little

More if Rapid Vienna had a sell on clause.

Rapid's manager has already confirmed that they receive nothing from any future Jelavic deal.

The club was right to reject the 7M West Ham bid, and try to get more. It was worth the gamble of not just bending over as soon as someone bid for a player. But in hindslight it hasn't worked in our favour and cost us at least £1.5M.

Which is an assumption. Much like most of what is posted here. We hear about this sum or that, but no-one on here or in the press has any hard figures to work with. Not that this will stop people from giving their opinion. My last info about WH bid was 3.2m up front and the rest of those 7m some day in the future. My last info about the Everton deal was 8m, with apparently 5.5m up front and add-ons. Possibly, if there's a lower fee, some neat sell-on clause.

In the end, all just hearsay, assumption and more often than not, speculation.

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Round-up:

IN:

#24 Mervan Celik â?? Contract till 2015

Out:

#9 Nikica Jelavić â?? sold (£6m+ Everton FC)

#10 John Fleck â?? (Contract till 2013, loaned to Blackpool FC)

#17 Juan Manuel Ortiz â?? (Contract till 2014, loaned to Almeira, Spain)

#36 Darren Cole â?? (Contract till 2012, loaned to Partick Thistle FC)

#33 Thomas Kind Bendiksen - released (turned down contract, Tromsø IL)

#23 Jordan McMillan â?? sold (Contract till 2012, refused extention; Dunfermline Atletic)

#35 Kyle Hutton â?? (contract till 2014, loaned to Dunfermline Atletic)

#3 David Weir â?? released

Jack Werndly - (loaned to Albion Rovers)

Marc Dyer - (loaned to Ayr United)

Sam McMahon - released (?, Doncaster Rovers)

Freddie Espling - released (?, Djurgarden)

Nicolaj Kohlert - released (?, Silkeborg)

On trial:

Luigi Bruins, Jamael Cox, Matthew Mbuta

Other clubs down south have been taking players for medicals and getting them signed up asap today, but Everton drag the completion of our deal out by many hours tonight. That's out of order and highly inconsiderate to the selling club (us) in my book. ...

A possiple reason might be this.

Healy No1 striker for the rest of the season. Oh dear.

We said that about Miller too when Boyd jumped ship. BTW, Hemmings will be back soon, Lafferty in a few weeks time. Aluko can play as a striker, Celik can, Little can ... the point remains that without Jela, the attacking midfield finally took on some responsibility of late.

SSN hears things, STV hears things ... I'm hearing things too.

Oh, BTW, still a lot of freebies out that we can get in now ... should Jela sign on the dotted line.

Could just as easily be us snatching at their heels.

In this case? When they have half a dozen strikers already? Methinks we were linked with Brozek, Salihi and Uchebo first, then they jumped into the queue. That said, who knows what the Scottish press reports and what is true anyways.

Re Holt, someone (media via FF) has claimed that our bid "fell too short" ... they don't want to sell and can demand to their hearts' content.

1550: Ross Hickey via #bbcsportsound: "Celtic and Rangers both bidding to sign up and coming 19-year-old Stirling Albion forward Andy Hunter. Has major potential!"

Never heard of him, but them snatching at our heels is becoming irritating.

On a lighter note, from all the comings and goings, CH Paterson still looks best!

But Craig, you do accept that had we still Lloyds & Co. cutting our costs, we would have a far weaker team playing SPL footie than we have now, do you?

Same old BHEASTS trying to sign any Rangers targets,you'd almost think they just sign them to stop us from signing them,a trait they have been doing for a while now and still not a league title to show for their efforts.

We should try to tango them into buying some expansive donkey then ... i.e. those, who they cannot find themselves.

A strong statement but we're none the wiser really. I trust Whyte about as much as I trust Sir David Murray.

 

Where have all the great Rangers men gone?

Who? Marlborough? He steered us through the late 70s and early 80s?

Strange, it is exactly the opposite impression I get from his statement, Danny.

Regarding ...

Falkirk star Kallum Higginbotham has been given permission to talk with five clubs including Old Firm giants Rangers and Celtic, Sky Sports understands.

First, they snap up Brozek, then they are looking at Salihi and Uchebo, now they are also interested in this chap. Will they indeed sell their Magic Hooper to a Russian club to balance the books again or prepare for a league that - in their wildest dreams - has no Rangers but another Hooped B-Team?

BTW, this chap looked very bright indeed in that LC semi-final.