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While I feel a reluctance to read too much into pre-season friendlies, the other side of that coin is I would probably have been critical and worried if they hadn't impressed. They looked more than competent against top quality in France, and totally overpowering against what finished 3rd in Scotland last season. What more could we ask for.

No doubting his footwork was exquisite. Seen suggestions he's bulked up somewhat in comparison to last season. Put on some muscle.

What a cross Barisic. I expect Hagi to chip in with a fair number of goals in the coming season.

Lazio may be a temptation for Morelos, and if they offered £20 million I expect the club would take it in the current environment. But I always suspected England was the preference of Morelos. But even if that were the case if it were me no way I would turn down Lazio and the CL for a mid or lower end premiership side. If he could go there and prove himself in the CL the upper echelons in England would then be convinced. And he's still young enough to do all that.

It looked like a controlled performance against quality opposition, albeit a friendly though there were tackles flying around that were far from friendly. A display of petulance from Kent took some of the shine off it. I'm looking for this to be his real breakout season. He needs to get his act together.

I would have been willing to go South and work up the leagues in 2012.

I would rather keep him than let him go for 12 million, because that wont provide an equivalent replacement. But if he's pushing for it then we're in a spot.

I know of no football insider claims. This where I got it from. https://sportslens.com/everton-keen-on-rangers-striker-alfredo-morelos/302671/

Judging from reports it's looking increasingly likely we may be losing Morelos for around 12 million or so. Can't be happy about that but it's an inevitability we all knew was going to come sometime.

As complete a circle of inconsistent illogicality as I could imagine. They're to be worried about because we lost to a relegated team last season. From there to they're an irrelevance like Killie etc. Then on to me calling them an inferior irrelevance makes them think they're a rival but fretting about them does not. All the way back to worrying abut them which presumably convinces them they're not a rival. While my consistent writing them off as an inferior irrelevance patently does. Any sheep reading this forum will enjoy your rants about their poxy club - they'll make them think there's an actual rivalry. I will continue writing them off as an inferior irrelevance. Which despite the bizarre non logic you presented here I can 100% guarantee will not make them the least bit happy. Now you can have that last pointless illogical word you just can't live without. I will give it to you to satisfy that particular obsession. You can pretend it's a clincher that negates all the previous inconsistent non logic and maybe somebody can even enforce it for you with a like. Enjoy.

Aberdeen FC seem to raise concerns for you, Gonzo, that I don't share. Carry on worrying about them if it helps. I will continue writing them off as inferior when there's an upcoming game.

Isn't that what I implied? An irrelevance we're far better than? Should beat every time? And you think being written off by me as inferior suggests a rivalry they would be happy to see? Will Accies fans think there's a rivalry if I say they're an inferior side too? But they would be more unhappy to see the likes of you after I write them off as inferior suggesting well we lost twice to a relegated team? Bizarre logic that they would be happy to see my opinion of them as massively inferior. But presumably unhappy that another frets about it because we lost twice to another inferior side last season.

Thought it was a Rangers forum? Yes it is. And it's surprising/questionable that a Rangers fan expresses the same degree of confidence I would be expecting the manager to impress on the team? Against what is an indisputably inferior side? Would anybody here swap their side for ours? Would they if they were honest? Saying we lost twice to a relegated side last season has no more relevance to this game than saying we convincingly won home and away against the table topping side last season. Does that make the prospects look better? If not then saying they lost twice to a relegated side holds no water either. And that's the point I was making. We are better than them. We should go into it expecting to win. Not hoping to win or being unduly fixated on results against another side in the previous season. Would I have chosen it as the first game? No, but it's what we have, that can't be changed, and I go there expecting to win it. Always. Take it easy, just typical fan confidence I expect to be more common than not. Unless it's a fan who simply has an agenda of being pointlessly contrary.

Which doesn't change my point a single iota. That point being we're better than they are, we know it and they know it. If you want to disagree on that point be my guest. If you want to be simply contrary which is what it looks like then every single game we play against anybody at all can be prefaced with well we lost twice to a team that were relegated. Nobody takes anything for granted but I expect most, obviously me included but apparently not you, do have a degree of confidence in a superior side the superiority of which I doubt any knowledgeable opinion would dispute. I also doubt the manager approaches it with well we lost twice to a relegated side mentality. I expect him to also be stating to the team that we're better than them, we know it they know it, and we only have to play to our capabilities to win it. Get out there and play to your capabilities.

Look on the bright side. Firstly we're better than the sheep, a lot better, we know it and beneath their bleating bluster so do they. Secondly i'm presuming they wont be able to cash in on it due to covid-19 restrictions. Boohoo.

I watched on Fox Sports and there was no option to remove the canned crowd, it's simply not going to happen here given that there will be 'colourful language'. They even edit films for the most innocuous of reasons. Just one example of that is 'The Matrix' which is a favourite of mine. Seen it on a number of occasions so pretty familiar with the script. There's a scene where the crew are trying to get a bug placed in Neo's body by Agent Smith out. They get it out, Neo sees it and says "Jesus Christ that things real" In Oklahoma that becomes "Jeepers creepers that things real". Just one of many language edits in the matrix alone and the the matrix is hardly hard core.

Watched the Chelsea v Man City game and it had canned crowd noise which personally I didn't like. Wondered if a large part of the purpose in that is to blank out some of the shouting between players. Likely to be a fair amount of aw FFS and the like in there.

I doubt Kamberi was on any more than a few grand a week at hibs. Presumably in the circumstances he would be open to signing a short term contract on little more than he was being paid at hibs with a view to proving himself worth more Or alternatively put himself in the shop window at a far higher profile club.

Next thing you know they will be claiming to have the greatest fans in the world. And maybe they need to get themselves a favoured terrorist group or two. Al-qaeda don't seem to have much of a fan base so maybe they could start there. That aside Klopp would appear to have cemented his legendary status. He's now God like down Anfield way.

Fair point. He had to wait for Klos to retire.

No way Dykes is a replacement for Morelos. But in an ideal scenario Morelos stays and Dykes becomes an option. He did okay with Livi, you have to imagine he could do even better in a far superior attacking side. Would be interesting to see him and Morelos together bouncing a defence all over the place. Would have to be guaranteed to create mayhem opening up space and chances both for each other and for others.

Which means it would require 3 goals without reply to beat them.

I haven't given up all hope yet. I did at the time but that was an effect of the disappointment of the night. It's a tall order, 3 goals without reply but we live in hope. And even if it doesn't pan out it was a good run. Pre season I remember people having little to no hope that we could even reach the groups again. Not only reached them but exceeded the heights of the previous season. And stayed in longer than them. A good run no matter what happens now. All things being taken into consideration next campaign I would have been looking to qualify again as an expectation this time rather than just the hope of previous seasons. But the pandemic situation muddies the waters. For that reason i'm not so expectant as I might have been.

I don't know if he or anybody else for that matter would. I was simply speculating a financial scenario for such a player. One that could be beneficial to both parties. Personally I don't know a thing about Ryan Fraser. Whether I would even want him in the team.