the gunslinger

17 hours ago, Rousseau said:

You've not read my point, so you've made up a silly argument.

 

I don't think we created enough against the low block. That's it; that's my whole point. I've then used the xG to prove we didn't create enough. 

 

The result was great. I'm happy with the result.

We definitely need to be creating more in these games. Definitely Rousseau is right. 

borna was excellent

1 - 1 danilo 

i liked our work out of possession yesterday and the quality of the goals was excellent. 

On 11/08/2023 at 13:23, Gonzo79 said:

Quite right.  His main job was to create and score goals, not to give the ball away.

yeah he should have done that everytime he got the ball. 

kent got pelters for taking men on and losing the ball. 

i guess the answer is just never lose the ball but also take men on and not pass. 

3 - 0 fgs danilo

On 09/08/2023 at 13:53, BlackSocksRedTops said:

So about 25 million minus their fee of 6 million, minus 30%. Something in the region 14 million.

 

 

less 7.5. wasn't on profit. Benfica only sold 70% of him to celtc. 

2 hours ago, RANGERRAB said:

Did Jota go for £25m though ?

the yahoos are very good at manipulating their pals in the media.

Seems a very high price for a player who couldn’t cut it at Benfica or whilst on loan in la Liga 

Definitely not. they didn't announce it as a club record and would have if true. 

Won't be far off though. 25m euro at least. 

14 hours ago, Uilleam said:

 

A gem of a player and Byern know it. 

1.5 million euros for us but probably next summer. 

will definitely be pivotal in knocking us out if we get past servette too

where is he going and how much for? indeed when is he actually going?

22 hours ago, Uilleam said:

The arithmetic actually isn't that great.

Buy for 5M

Forego 1M bounty

Sweetener to Tillman 1M

Sell for 12M

Residual 5M

%age to BM 1.2M

Outcome 3.8M

 

It's still better than 1M, and a possible 10% of the PSV fee. 

 

Purely speculation, of course. 

And there may be VAT. 

 

Yeah and he drags you to the CL again plus 20 million.....

Just now, Uilleam said:

We could have exercised it, then. BM seemingly paid us not to do so. 

Slavery is illegal. He can't be made to sign for us. 

5 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

I have been saying for ages that we'd double our money on Tillman within 6 months.

 

Most were saying £5M is too much for him. 

 

Alas! It didn't matter. Bayern cancelled it. That's why we got the £1M.   

and another 1.2 by the sound of it. 

What i don't get is he is out of contract next summer. how can they be made to buy him

12 hours ago, Bill said:

You do have a tendency to run amok with a complete over-simplification of the situation and seem determined to twist the comments of others until it becomes about you being denied the right to express a negative opinion about Beale ... when no one has said any such thing. The point that's actually being made is about the intemperate way you and some others have been going about it, which comes across as a wild and adolescent knee jerk reaction. 

 

I've seen too many seasons when we started badly to believe the rest of the season hangs on one bad performance. Not one word of your rants will make a difference to what happens next. Try calming down a little because you already must know that Beale will be going nowhere.

You've changed Bill

11 minutes ago, lenny3k said:

he's more or less finalised to PSV

Kent was in the airport on his way to belgium....

15 minutes ago, compo said:

talk in some  quarters of Tillman returning   to Ibrox 

Dear god that would be good. 

The last  20 year olds we had make debut seasons like that were Ferguson, Gattouso and Durrant. 

Kent was a bit older i think. 

that's the levels we are talking here. 

Rangers fans slating him for being lazy are simply wrong. Rangers fans who don't think he would have been value at 5 million aren't half a tough crowd. 

3 -1 rangers FGS Danilo 

7 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

That would help. 

 

I was more frustrated at the lack of movement from our attacking midfielders and forwards, though.

They really struggled with the low block. They better get used to it fast. 

Our pre season was more about money and being ready for europe than scotland and perhaps that was a mistake. a couple of games v motherwell and ross county might have helped. Perhaps we played practice games with one team doing low block. I sure hope so. 

kent was better than anything we have wide now. We had no one to travel with the ball at all. Anyone would miss kents work rate as well. 

Tillman was way better than lammers. (i have a special distain for the people who lauded lammers for 3.5 and though tillman at 5 was a bad deal. it was exceptionally good.)

Buttland looked promising. No wonder he gets injuries mind you. 

looks like it's 4 2 2 2 which is probably fine it's worked before but needs time to become cohesive and fluid. 

Huge game on Wednesday obviously. 

Still miss Candeias who was a victim of the 4 2 2 2. 

17 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

@BlackSocksRedTops @Graeme Ro55

 

The graph is a passing network.

 

The bigger circles mean those players have more of the ball. 

 

Basically, we're passing it about the defence (big circles) and not getting the ball to our forwards (small circles). 

 

It's just showing what we've seen with our eyes. 

our ch need to step out with the ball which they did a bit but nothing like enough on Saturday. 

lots and lots to be learned. 

full backs taking the shys. it will never catch on ffs. 

killie 1 rangers 3 FGS barasic

15 hours ago, Blue Moon said:

Kent had to learn to do it, Lammers could too.

Certainly true. 

16 hours ago, Whosthedado said:

apart from the last six months of last season when he looked like he couldn't give a flying duck

Even then. I said this last season, I said it every time folk criticised Kent for not scoring enough. 

Absolutely he didn't score enough but folk did not make any allowance for the work he did pressing and defending. 

I think we will need to play dowel out there to compensate.