johnnyk

I don't agree with that. There's quite a few managers who have been in game a long time but won nothing..........

Real are also after Ribery and Villa and Silva........... If they get all them the could be some team next year...........Barca have a few older players now leaving and past their peak IMO and if it clicks at Real they can get back on top.........

I don't think it will ever be forgotten, it was a great goal, but like gazza said his time here you could count the number of things like this on your hand, most of the time he was missing in action or injured!!!

but he's just played a whole season on the continent getting regular football. he's just been released from a poor team who finished 30 points of the leaders. he's proved himself to me what type of player he is.........

hope he gets more of a chance with them if he is........... He looks a good player but was too attacking for WS

Shows we were right to get rid of the heartless bugger

I'll just get Lottie on to ye m8

As gazza said he sadly won't get a chance or make it into the team...............

welcome m8, you don't get attacked on here like you do on FF for saying your opinion, well not as much

I don't see any problem with it myself if it's in the rules we can select other players from other countries but only if they improve us. I can't see us qualifying for a major competition in the near future or for some time actually so if these players could help us do that then it's fine by me............

GERMANS PLAN MOVE FOR GERS ACE McGREGOR ALLAN McGREGOR could land a shock move to German club Hannover 96. The Bundesliga outfit have targeted the Rangers keeper to replace unsettled Robert Enke. German international Enke has entered the final year of his contract and has refused to sign a new deal after being linked with Bayern Munich and a return to former club Benfica. And Sport of the World can reveal Hannover are lining up a �£3.5million bid for McGregor, 27, to replace him. The controversial goalie lost his place to Neil Alexander at Ibrox last season following the Bevvygate furore and has no Scotland future. Now he may cut his losses and rebuild his career in the cash-laden Bundesliga. McGregor's value has plunged since he was rated at �£8million after signing a new four-year deal with Gers in 2007. And it's unlikely the cash-strapped Scottish champs would stand in his way if they received an offer of around half that valuation. Hannover first spotted McGregor's ability in a pre-season game against Gers two years ago. They were reminded of his capabilities during Walter Smith's side's run to the UEFA Cup Final last year. McGregor played the game of his life against Werder Bremen to help the Light Blues into the quarter-finals. Hannover boss Dieter Hecking has kept tabs on him ever since. However any deal hinges on Enke moving on this summer. The former Barcelona keeper, 31, wants one last crack at Champions League football before he retires. http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/scottish/scottish_sport/346893/Allan-McGregor-is-being-targeted-for-a-move-to-the-Bundesliga-Rangers-Hannover-Bayern-Munich.html

HERMANN: I CAN BE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE STAR HERMANN HREIDARSSON last night told Walter Smith: I can be a Champions League star for you. The Iceland defender broke his silence to confirm he is interested in quitting Portsmouth for Ibrox. The 34-year-old insists Gers haven't yet tabled an offer and that in any event he's waiting to hear who the new Pompey boss is and what he's got to say. But with the clock ticking on his career the veteran, who's won 54 caps, admits he's captivated by the lure of the Champions League. He said: "I would be interested but as yet nothing's been offered - as least nothing concrete. "I'm still waiting on Portsmouth to appoint a new manager. I will have a word with him and see what he's got to say. But I would look upon the Scottish League as a good, new challenge for me. "Rangers would be a good club for any player to move to especially when they have the Champions League coming up next season." http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/scottish/scottish_sport/346615/Hermann-Hreidarsson-reckons-he-can-be-a-star-for-Rangers-Portsmouth.html

Get novo playing for us, he will give more than some do at present...........

RANGERS' midfielders Mo Edu and Kevin Thomson will miss the start of the 2009/10 SPL season due to injury. Edu was ruled out of Saturday's Scottish Cup final victory over Falkirk having suffered ligament damage to his left knee after a crunching challenge from Dundee United's Darren Dods at Tannadice on May 24. Top London surgeon Andy Williams carried out a successful operation on the American yesterday but he is expected to be out of action for a minimum three months. The 23-year-old has also been forced to withdraw from the US national team for their forthcoming World Cup qualifiers with Costa Rica and Honduras and the Confederations Cup tournament later this month. Thomson, meanwhile, missed the majority of the 2008/09 double-winning campaign due to a cruciate injury picked up at against Kilmarnock at Rugby Park on November 9. The Gers' No. 8 has been making excellent progress with the physios at Murray Park and is ahead of schedule but, like Edu, might not return to Walter Smith's plans until September. With Barry Ferguson's future at Ibrox uncertain today's news will come as a big blow for the gaffer who would have wanted his squad to be at full strength for the start of the new campaign and the prospect of Champions League football. http://www.rangers.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/NewsDetail/0,,5~1686356,00.html Not very good news............

i sometimes don't see the point in having a youth set up as they don't get a fair chance with us. the aaron signing was more bizzare as he was never going to play in many games unless he was a superstar so why have we wasted money on him? and it's not exactly helped him sitting on the bench or playing reserve football for us. ross mccormack is a decent player but he would still be a fringe player if he was still with us IMO ,first team football and hard work has obviously done him wonders and is now worth �£5m or so they say down south, I still don't like him much though

There is no way we could get someone in for �£3.5-�£4m to replace boyd if we sold him for that IMO. We don't have much scouting in place in europe and it's just luck if you get a bargain or not as if we bought from europe they might not fit in to our style or the Scottish game. Who could we get for that kind of money to score 20+ goals in the SPL? It's OK saying he doesn't score against the big? teams but every goal against every team helps to win the league does it not? A team of 11 players running all day is not much use if you don't have someone to score goals. If he was scoring goals and running himself into the ground I'm sure he would be elsewhere for big bucks. Some players don't have to run around all day to do their job I thought that was the point of a team but maybe it's just me? You look down south and the silly prices againt down there, this season you had Luke Moore going to west brom for �£3m, and other similar or higher prices for players IMO much worse than Boyd and would never score the amount of goals he can give us every season. For next season I've just seen the likes of Titus Bramble quoted at �£5m unbelievable!!! Why not build a team and play to his strengths rather than trying to get rid of our and the SPLs top scorer for the last 3 seasons? This not trying hard enough excuse is lame to say the least, is 30 goals not enough for you?

yes it was bad, they were fast on the wings and also missed some sitters. they seem so much more physical, stronger and faster than what we have........especially the black guys in their team, i was impressed with a few of them....

But whoever they get they will say he was first choice

WALTER Smith last night revealed a domestic double and �£15million Champions League bounty won't save Rangers from a summer of first-team cutbacks. Smith could be forced into selling some of the key men behind his side's SPL and Scottish Cup successes. As he paraded both trophies at Ibrox yesterday, the Rangers boss warned fans that not even automatic entry into UEFA's most lucrative tournament will allow him to keep his squad together. Already Brahim Hemdani and Christian Dailly have left the club under freedom of contract and Smith expects to lose another four or five senior players from his pool before the next campaign begins. Record Sport revealed last week Smith hopes to partly finance a �£3m move for West Brom winger Chris Brunt by sending ex-skipper Barry Ferguson the other way as a �£1m makeweight. And yesterday he conceded more big names could follow Ferguson out of the door. Smith, who first flagged up the urgent nature of Rangers' finances back in January when he accepted a s4m offer from Birmingham for striker Kris Boyd, said: "We have that whole financial situation to face again this summer. "It never affected Rangers in the latter stages of this season because we didn't lose any players in January as Kris did not move on. But we still have that situation to address. The Champions League money makes a difference in that we have more power in deciding who stays and goes but the situation is still there. "We will have to adjust in a number of ways and cut the squad back. Christian and Brahim have left and we will lose a few others. There are three or four positions that could be doing with enhancing but if we can't do it, that's the way it is." Smith wants captain Davie Weir to return to Ibrox for one more season - despite the fact he will turn 40 in May. The manager will hand Weir the armband once more but will also identify a new vice-captain who will be groomed to take over, with Kevin Thomson the top candidate. Smith said: "Davie is keen to continue and at his age that is the first question. From what I've seen he can carry on. He was brilliant for us all season and never missed a day's training. We give him more rest than others but he has never missed a day through a knock, tiredness or anything. "At times you look at players and as long as their assets outweigh their faults they are good to go on and Davie's assets still outweigh any faults. I hope he will stay as captain but we will have more games next season and that is something we will consider as we go." But while Weir will be handed a new one-year deal Smith is unsure if the likes of Boyd and Nacho Novo, who have one more season left to run on their contracts, will be offered extensions. He said: "The global recession is a problem we are not immune to so it is hard to make decisions on anyone. "The problem kicks in now. It means the decision process is not as straightforward as when I arrived and I could say, 'I want him, him and him'. It will not be an easy close season for anybody." Smith is himself entering into the final few months of his contract but insists he will stay in charge for at least next season's title defence. And he has ruled out the prospect of moving upstairs to a new position in order to free up the job for right-hand man and protege Ally McCoist. Smith said: "I want to make one thing clear: I am not going to do that. I don't want to be a director of football and sit here in judgment of another manager. If I leave Rangers I will leave and that is it. If they welcome me back I will come to watch a game or two but not as director of football." http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/football/spl/2009/06/02/walter-smith-admits-he-fears-losing-top-stars-despite-rangers-champions-league-cash-boost-86908-21408298/

we played ok in the first half but they were too powerful for us and deserved to win.....

So you would rather have the likes of 2 kenny millers up front than someone like Boyd to play alongside him brilliant :admin: so who can you recommend that will give you 100% and score the same amount of goals and someone we can afford where would buffel fit in this team for you :fish: Bring back seboooooooo

players don't get much of chance with us do they I would give him at least another year and hopefully an injury free pre season will help him get back to his best for next season..........

It's been the same all season though very inconsistent to say the least.

But apart from a few games this season where we have played really well how were you expecting more? Surely you must've had an idea it would be like this?

I see we are in pot 3 but could still possibly make pot 2 if a few seeded teams get knocked out!! http://www.xs4all.nl/~kassiesa/bert/uefa/seedcl2009.html