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John Fleck has been invited to train with us as he attempts to get fit and secure a new club. All well and good as long as that new club isn't Rangers.

Celtic currently 4-0 up against Chelsea after putting 4 past Man City. Their pre-season the complete opposite to ours.

One that's fit to play would also help.

Appears he has a few options and you have to imagine, haven gone back a few times we've sounded him out about coming to Rangers and received positive responses.

sevilla accept our latest offer for 1 Yr loan with OPTION to buy to 4M Euros.

Hearts lost 3-0 away to Fleetwood today

In the first half our forward play was very good. The pass from Diomande for Dessers 1st goal and the pass from Tav for Lawrence's 2nd were exceptional. Cortes - Dessers - Wright all played well and Dessers showed his value with 2 very good, composed finishes. Dio and Barron linked up well but do they offer sufficient protection to the back 4? Lawrence excelled in the "10" role and scored 2 great goals and was positive throughout. Defence and keeper were poor defensively but thought Jefte played well going forward. Tav showing he's still getting back to fitness and with Sterling injured again, RB suddenly becomes a huge concern ahead of the start of the season. Surprised how poor Butland was today, hopefully just a little rusty but he did make a few errors in the run-in last season. Soutar and Davies isn't the partnership we require. Souttar is good for the "blood and thunder" but prone to an error, Davies just looks disinterested. Balogun is great to have around and a great old head to call upon but don't think we can rely on him for a full 60 game season. So repeat that the defensive areas are the ones we need to address as the top priority : A new starter RB and 2 x starting CB at the very least. Then we can concentrate on a DM and possibly a striker. A lot of work still to do.

Takeaways 1. We need a RB as a matter or urgency. 2. Butland needs to get his head back in the game 3. We need to sign 2 x CBs as a matter of urgency. 4. We need to stop playing "narrow" as it's killing us 5. Dessers and Lawrence scored 2 good goals each 6. Dio and Barron look like they could form a decent partnership 7. Gonna be a tough start to the season if we don't get t or 5 starters in this week.

Drunk?

See of anyone claims that Ridvan has quality delivery from aet-pieces, I'm gonna scream.

Touch, touch, touch = goal 🙄😀

Butland at fault again? Seemed to dive over that one. Mr Clement we need to urgently sort out our defence.

Have Union brought on their first 11 at halftime? Or have we just dropped off ?

Yip.

B Team come back from 0-2 down to Larne to win 3-2.

For all his faults, that's where you miss Lundstram. He 'sat' and allowed our full backs to push wider and further forward.

Positives are Dessers - great finish and linking up very well. Lawrence - 2 goals and general play has been very good. Diomande - very good 45mins Barron - playing well. Look brilliant going forward, horrific defensively but sure the Union Berlin fans will be saying the exact same.

Having watched the end of last seaon and this pre-season Clement has narrowed our back 4. Since doing so, it blunted our attack and made us vulnerable defensively. I thought it was down to injuries but he appears to be persisting with it this pre-season.

But the LB had to "invert" to mark the striker, leaving the scorer wide-open. FBs have obviously been told to stay narrow and its killing us.

If only we could defend 😀 Inverted full back again. Cease Mr Clement 🙄

Hahaha - keep it up @Rousseau

Haha - we want more goals from midfield - Lawrence scores 2 in 3 games. Aye but we need more 😀😀😀 Know what you mean tho.

Another good finish from Lawrence- our top scorer in pre-season.

Both goals a result of our full backs being too narrow (or is it inverted)? Don't know why manager persists with this.

Pass through to him makes it - great finish tho.