Daniel Amokachi

Fool me once shame on you, fool my twice shame on me, full me thrice...well I think by that point you are meant to be prepared for the fall

Amongst those 160 or so nations are Northern Ireland who are 80 odd places below us and we've got 6 of their players in our squad ...OK make that 4 if you want to nitpick.

And Northern Ireland are terrible

As much as our National squad is poor by our standards, I'm sure there's at least the 160 or so nations below us in the rankings that would beg to differ.

You could include junior level and womens teams if you want to make it even more flattering.

Having read Forlanssister's posts on RM, I don't think anyone should challenge him on these matters and expect a victory.

Boyd? Onyewu is a sub for Sporting Lisbon

...continuing to be picked by Klinsmaan in a squad of mediocre players that just humped our National team 5-1.

Can you name 5 current American players off the top of your head without looking it up? Being better than Scotland doesn't mean anything and I really don't think this American squad is full of particularly good talent. According to wikipedia he has only played once for the US this year.

Not so sure about that. I never have seen Edu as a defensive mid. I also think both we and Edu himself have failed in his development as a player. If you look at his first season and just beyond, Edu was an exciting player to watch - You don't get the honor of being an outlet for TBB just because your name is a convenient replacement for 'hullo'. He was never the most visionary or the best passer of the ball, but he was a box to box nightmare for the opposition. He's been stifled by our system of play and his confidence to perform to that same level has been stinted, but I wouldn't write him off just yet.

 

Whether he could fit into a system that includes Gatusso remains to be seen.

I don't think the future of Edu is very relevant. He's a very mediocre player.

By club you mean Max Allegri. A man who has the support divided down the middle worse than Boyd ever had us. I mean I hope I am not coming across as anti Rino or anything, I actually like him a great deal, I know what he can bring and having met him in his Rangers days I have a very soft spot for him, given also my support for Milan.

 

But I know what fan opinion generally was of him by those without my tinted specs was, and how often supporters complained when he was in the team. I found it harsh at times, at other times his selection wasn't the best option.

Let's be real here though mate, while Gattuso might not a star of Seria A anymore, we play in a league that is the equivalent of bottom end Italian football. Gattuso was a regular for one of the best teams in Serie A until not so long ago. People keep using the David Weir example, but he was finished in England then strolled through several seasons in Scotland. And Gattuso was a far better player than Weir.

So lets scrutinize and scrutinize till time runs out...better than racism at Ibrox when Bill Miller shipped his hook...don't be so NEGATIVE and give my club a chance.

Sorry, but scrutiny is exactly what MUST be done. There's a difference between scrutiny and mindless protests for no apparent logical cause.

Who said few hundred. Let's get nearer a thousand. So that's over 1% I'll have you know. Anyway, the point is I have known more Milan fans, I suspect, than probably the rest of this forum's members combined, and opinion from the vast majority has been thanks for your time, and goodbye. Gattuso was appreciated as a lionheart but his ability declined rather in recent years, and at 34, he wasn't really up to the rigours of Serie A any longer. Some also absolutely hated him after the Jordan incident. Joe, not Katie Price.

More importantly, the club obviously thought a lot of him before he featured almost 40 times in a season where they won the league...

We were conned into 15 league titles, 9 Scottish FA trophies, 12 League Cup trophies, and an appearance in a European Cup Final for 36 years and a state of the art training complex then?

Wait, you are actually for David Murray? Please tell me you are trolling?

Oh Jesus, I'm not even going to bother with you.

Will say something in Zappas favour.....he knows how to stir up a pot.

Possibly if Whyte and Murray had got similar scrutiny, we won't be where we are now.

If he's raised £8.5M from his consortium in a manner of months, I don't see why another £20M is impossible inside a year. Once we are out of admin, there is no evidence to suggest he cannot resolve our issues swiftly. All we need is a stable reliable business model, and that's his modus operandi. It doesn't have to take half a decade to achieve that.

The £8.5m will have been raised from personal wealth or borrowings. The £20m will have to come from money the club generates. We were operating at a loss of £10m per annum, how are we going to suddenly swing things? The only way the club makes any money is from champions league football, and we're miles away from being a group stage level team.

Holland are a strange 1. They have 3 or 4 of the top players in world football but other than that they seem more about power than skill. Back in the day, they basically had an entire squad of world class talent to choose from. What are the youngsters like over there Pete? Is there a new batch of talent coming through?

Some people seem very afraid of asking questions.

Yeah because it would be such a bad thing to give somebody the benefit of to sell if they are the real deal, it so much better to just make up stuff and claim things that are not true.

 

Have a think before you type stuff like that mate.

Is Zappa somehow impeding the takeover by raising queries on a message board?

Who was the other con-man?

Aye, very good.

Zappa with friends like you, who needs.....

 

If he is the real deal will you have the brass neck to still "support" Rangers?

After being run into the ground by two horrible con men, and another guy coming out of the woodwork from nowhere, can you not understand his concerns?

I bought the Holland and Spain kits today. Have always followed Holland in the tournaments since Advocaat and the Dutch players joined us. Thinking of putting the bloody top back now !!

He would probably immediately become the best player in the SPL by a mile, even if he's not quite the player he was.

This would be a sensational signing and what a way to get back in business. I have wanted this signing for a long, long time. It's unlikely we will sign a player of his calibre again for some time.

We will already be in debt to him and his other investors from the start, as far as I'm aware so what he's saying isn't true.

As I said in the other thread, we just have to wait and see.

We just have to hope for the best really. Not a lot else can be done just now. We must be very cautious but putting up any resistance at this point in time is not the correct thing to be doing.