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Think Wes is going to hang in there and battle for his spot. Wes Foderingham responds to Rangers exit reports on Twitter http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2018/04/26/wes-foderingham-responds-to-rangers-exit-reports-on-twitter/

There is no way we're going to be capturing any young top quality with loads of experience. That type of player will cost tens of millions and be in the EPL. Right now we may be looking to get "friends of Gerrard" who have made their money and may be willing to accept a new challenge to help out their friend at the beginning of his managerial career.

I have seen some commenting that paying high wages for loan deals is effectively short termism and not the way to move forward. I agree on most levels but at this time isn’t a brief period of such a strategy good for the long term if we were to win the league next season? Depriving the yahoos of 10 in a row and CL income while giving us a shot at that income?

JORDAN Rossiter has recalled how he blossomed as a player working alongside Steven Gerrard before the Liverpool and England great had even moved into coaching - and expressed confidence he will flourish as manager at Rangers. The appointment of Gerrard at Ibrox earlier this month took British football aback due to his inexperience in the dugout; he has only been in charge of the under-18 side at Anfield for little over a year. Many Scottish football supporters and pundits are sceptical about whether the 37-year-old will be able to resurrect the fortunes of the Ladbrokes Premiership club next season. However, Rossiter, who made his comeback from injury in a Ladbrokes Premiership match against Hibernian at Easter Road on Sunday and scored his side’s second goal in the astonishing 5-5 draw, believes it is an inspired decision and is looking forward to being reunited with his celebrated countryman. The former England youth internationalist worked alongside Gerrard at Premier League club Liverpool as a teenager and saw first hand what an inspirational figure he was and the impact his presence has on those around him. “I have obviously never worked with him as a manager, but as a player when I was up training with him at Melwood he was absolutely superb with me,” he said. “He was first class. “He is obviously a fellow Scouser and he helped me a lot. I haven’t seen him for about a year now. But I’m sure I’ll learn just as much off him as a manager as I did when he was a player.” Rossiter made his first appearance for the Rangers first team in nine months at the weekend and acquitted himself well. He even managed to play on after being scythed down by Scott Allan in a challenge the Hibernian midfielder should have been ordered off for. The 21-year-old has endured a difficult time with injuries since being signed by former manager Mark Warburton two years ago and admitted he is determined to put his problems behind him in the 2018/19 campaign and feature regularly under Gerrard. Asked if the arrival of Gerrard had given him an extra incentive to get back playing again, he said: “To be honest, no. This is Rangers Football Club and no matter what manager comes in they will bring a good pedigree. I would always try and be on top of my game. “No matter who was coming in, I’d want to be a big part of it. I want to be a Rangers player. I want to be here. Whoever the manager was, I was going to try and be at the top of my game and get back into the starting XI.” Rossiter added: “I have had a tough time with injuries, everyone knows my injury record isn’t great. Hopefully, I can put that all behind me now. “I have come here to play football games and unfortunately my body hasn’t allowed me to do that. But the medical team have been absolutely first class, sorting me right out. “It’s just about getting back to playing. That’s all I want to do, to be winning football matches and doing my best for the team and the fans. “Listen, I think I just need to take it step by step. I need to keep doing the right things on and off the pitch. I need to keep living my life right, which I feel I have been. I have just been unfortunate with a few niggles and knocks. “Sometimes this happens in football, you know. I’m sure I’ll get back. The few years I have missed here, I am sure I will get back at the end of my career.” Gerrard, who starts at Rangers on June 1, will be the fifth manager that Rossiter has had in the two years he has been in Scotland. He was signed by Mark Warburton and has since worked under Pedro Caixinha, Graeme Murty and Jimmy Nicholl. The midfielder believes having an extended run with will enable them to pull close to their city rivals Celtic and challenge for silverware again. “I think every club need stability,” he said. “In the longer run that is only going to help us. The players really need to get on board, like we have done with all the managers. It is a good group of lads. I can’t really put my finger on where it has gone wrong, but hopefully the lads will go into pre-season flying.” Rossiter admitted he was disappointed the end of the season had arrived just when he had forced his way back into the first team. “There will be personalised programmes to do over the summer,” he said. “I haven’t played as much as the other lads so I need to keep the momentum going.” Jordan Rossiter: Steven Gerrard helped when he was a Liverpool player - I'm sure he'll shine as Rangers manager

Potential opposition, one of them Progrès though I don't see a disaster on that scale happening again. Partizan CC: 17.000 Molde CC: 12.500 Lech Poznań CC: 7.000 FH CC: 5.500 Dundalk CC: 5.500 Žalgiris CC: 5.500 Gabala CC: 5.250 Osijek CC: 5.200 Vardar CC: 5.000 Slovan Bratislava CC: 5.000 Beitar Jerusalem CC: 4.350 Anorthosis Famagusta CC: 4.310 Apollon Limassol CC: 10.000 or AEK Larnaca CC: 4.310 Dinamo Tbilisi CC: 4.250 Nõmme Kalju CC: 4.000 Aberdeen CC: 4.000 AIK CC: 4.000 BK Häcken CC: 3.995 Slavia Sofia CC: 3.825 CSKA Sofia CC: 3.825 Europa League play-offs winners of 2017–18 First Professional Football League CC: 3.825 Ventspils CC: 3.750 Shakhtyor Soligorsk CC: 3.725 Dinamo Minsk CC: 8.000 or Dynamo Brest CC: 3.725 Kairat CC: 3.625 Irtysh Pavlodar CC: 3.625 Tobol CC: 3.625 Fola Esch CC: 3.500 Lillestrøm CC: 3.485 Sarpsborg 08 CC: 3.485 Sarajevo CC: 3.250 Željezničar Sarajevo CC: 3.000 Vaduz CC: 2.750 FCI Levadia CC: 2.750 Milsami Orhei CC: 2.750 Stjarnan CC: 2.750 Cliftonville CC: 2.500 Široki Brijeg CC: 2.250 Chikhura Sachkhere CC: 2.000 Petrocub Hîncești CC: 2.000 Luftëtari CC: 1.700 ÍBV CC: 1.650 Liepāja CC: 1.500 KuPS CC: 1.380 Ilves CC: 1.380 Lahti CC: 1.380 Shamrock Rovers CC: 1.340 Derry City CC: 1.340 Samtredia CC: 1.250 Riga FC CC: 1.125 Narva Trans CC: 1.100 Stumbras CC: 1.075 Gandzasar Kapan CC: 0.975 Banants CC: 0.975 Balzan CC: 0.900 Progrès Niederkorn CC: 0.875 Coleraine CC: 0.850 Glenavon CC: 0.850 Third-placed team of 2017–18 Liga I Third-placed team of 2017–18 Danish Superliga Europa League play-offs winners of 2017–18 Danish Superliga Fourth-placed team of 2017–18 Ekstraklasa Winners of 2017–18 Azerbaijan Cup Third-placed team of 2017–18 Azerbaijan Premier League Winners of 2017–18 Serbian Cup Third-placed team of 2017–18 Serbian SuperLiga Winners of 2017–18 Slovenian Football Cup Runners-up of 2017–18 Slovenian PrvaLiga Third-placed team of 2017–18 Slovenian PrvaLiga Runners-up or third-placed team of 2017–18 Slovak First Football League Third-placed team or Europa League play-offs winners of 2017–18 Slovak First Football League Winners of 2017–18 Magyar Kupa Runners-up of 2017–18 Nemzeti Bajnokság I Third-placed team of 2017–18 Nemzeti Bajnokság I Winners of 2017–18 Moldovan Cup Winners of 2017–18 Albanian Cup Third-placed or fourth-placed team of 2017–18 Albanian Superliga Winners of 2017–18 Macedonian Football Cup Runners-up or third-placed team of 2017–18 Macedonian First Football League Winners of 2017–18 Montenegrin Cup Runners-up of 2017–18 Montenegrin First League Third-placed team of 2017–18 Montenegrin First League Winners of 2017–18 Armenian Cup or runners-up of 2017–18 Armenian Premier League Winners of 2017–18 Luxembourg Cup

The 2017 'Global Sports Salaries Survey' report found a large variation between the wages offered by teams in the Scottish Premiership, with champions Celtic paying an average annual salary of £735,040, per player, whilst traditional rivals Rangers could only pay £329,600 and league runners-up Aberdeen offered £136,382. The lowest salary offered by any of the twelve member clubs was Hamilton's £41,488 – 17 times less than Celtic, whose wages were close to the sum of the other eleven clubs combined. The report stated that this disparity was the third-greatest from the 18 leagues surveyed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Premiership#Financial_disparity

Regarding the Euro qualifiers if we had won the Scottish cup we wouldn't be starting till the second qualifying round. Might it be a blessing in disguise that we have to start at the first qualifying round? There are likely to be a bunch of new players to be bedded in and since the opposition in the first round are likely to be of a much lower standard it might actually be in our favour that we have to play it. And aside from the players bedding in process the club might actually make an extra million pounds at the gate for the first competitive match of the Steven Gerrard era.

Obviously makes sense. We're the highest scoring team in the league but leaking goals. Sort that and we're looking at a whole different scenario. Wondering what Gerrard thinks of Alves. Would he consider pairing him with another experienced man.

How comical if Morelos ultimately leaves for more than him.

Immaterial. Ask the obsessed and they will tell you it's not the same club, 'yer teams deid son'

Anyone getting the feeling there may be no significant movement till Gerrard actually takes the hot seat on June 1st? At which point he will have 6 weeks before the first Euro qualifying game. If he can get us into that group stage he will already have done a job for the club. A 10 million pound windfall. Here’s hoping. I will remain confident till I have reason not to be.

I think Gerrard may make a difference to him but that's a personal view. Looking at it from the perspective of if it were me as a young boy at an English club with no Scots around me me then in comes a Scottish legend I had idolised who had played his entire career at Rangers I would be massively encouraged. Just in passing I cringed yesterday when that tackle went in. He hit him hard and when he didn't immediately get back up the first thought was oh no here we go again. This boy is cursed.

Rossiter has great potential and especially so with Gerard now guiding him. You would imagine being a scouser that the likes of Gerrard would be hero worshiped by him. Someone he would be willing to listen to and run through brick walls for.

To my mind it’s irrelevant what they were chanting. The issue here is that a man in his position is so unstable he consistently responds at all. I suspect Gerrard is going to get some attention from opposing crowds. Do we think he’s likely to ‘respond’ Lennon fashion?

I don’t care what he claims to be responding to. Someone in that position who responds to any crowd chanting isn’t a fit person to be in that position in the first place.

I'm hoping the high profile of Gerrard may make a difference to the recurring, obvious, and blatant refereeing bias against us. Due to the presence of Gerrard their bias could be seen by a more widespread audience in Britain, Europe, and even globally.

When do they do something fitting about Lennon. I would be arrested for his crowd goading behaviour and my goading would be less of a potential flashpoint than his.

So it ends with Rangers in Europe and the highest scoring team in the league but highest goals against in the top 7. It's a platform for Gerrard to work from. Fix that defence and we're on our way.

What I care about is that if I were of a conspiracy bent I would have to start thinking why can't the sheep get a look in against them all season but on the final day when it's crucial to us the sheep are getting a look in. Will the yahoos be so inept against Motherwell? Or is that impossible because it would keep yahoos 2 out of Europe?

Well so much for 6 -0. Get another and the hubz will crumble into all out insanity to the extent even this ref will need to get out the red.

If it’s accurate presumably they ran it past Gerrard first.

It's as clear an example as we could expect to find of how 'diddy' a team they actually are when a single domestic cup win is the most momentous thing that ever happened to them. Lennon knows it too and he's just been biding team till a 'real' job comes along. Their midfield is going to be dismantled over the next few weeks and a diddy club like them wont have the means to rebuild it. Bolt shot, bubble burst, back to reality.

He'd like the Liverpool squad to be available but since that's not going to happen he will just have to work with what's available. If he really does have a talent for this I believe he can make this a winning team with just a handful or so good additions. They do have the makings of a dominant SPL team but for whatever reason they only show it in spells. The hubz think they've had a good season yet we're ahead of them and we view it as a poor season. It's up to Gerrard to get the team performing consistently.

Even their own support don't think they have a hope of scoring 6 with no reply. They're banking on the benefactors who already handed them 3 points to get them into Europe by beating Motherwell. Funny situation, wonder what would have happened if Motherwell winning would have kept us out of Europe rather than hubz. Even their own grunting support would likely have viewed that as an acceptable result.

True but there's about as much chance of that happening as Lennon winning the Nobel peace prize. Ever noticed it's never Lennons fault when they lose? It's the referees fault, the players fault, the studs fault. Anything but him.