Devil's advocaat

I think so Compo, as Yuddie says, it's a no brainer.

As I said, no one had a sniff of this. Fantastic. 👏🏻

I like the fact there's very little coming out in the 'news' outlets regarding our dealings, Gerrard had this down to a tee, they knew fuck all til the deal was done.

A half what? 😆

Can't disagree with that.

Lets hope that's true.

Good. For the simple reason that the first time our new players walk out the Ibrox tunnel, they'll get the atmosphere of a new season, feel the weight of the Jersey and thrive on the expectation.

All clubs are doing this now, basically managing outgoing finances in terms of financial fair play etc. I think Diomande is on a similar basis?.

Yup, this is basically OC signing on a 5 year contract.

Old Trafford is in the state it's in purely down to lack of maintenance, preventative maintenance is essential with any exposed structure, neglect that and it's not long before the costs will spiral, we got into the same place ourselves not so long ago. We need to continue to grow, to extract profit as much as possible, we've already seen that we can't rely on european money, and we've made some poor contract choices in recent years too. Kudos to you for travelling up twice a month, that's superb.

Agreed.

Brilliant. Time we moved on from this squad, onwards and upwards.

No one knew who Lawwell was when he took over, and take over he did. Profile is irrelevant.

Disagree, we need someone who is good at their job, profile is irrelevant if you know your onions.

Tan man was way after our first CL adventures.

Rubbish. Players go to such English clubs as Norwich as it offers them a faster route to a Premiership contract, and that's about the height of many players ambitions.

Aye, let's become a soulless toy for a rich boy.

FFS.

I was at Bartram's first game (If my memory is right, which doesn't often happen!), I think we beat Falkirk 3-1 at Ibrox and he scored? Christ, I was right! Was gonna say I thought it was Bombers debut too. https://therangersarchives.co.uk/bartram-jan/#:~:text=Jan Bartram (1988),what was his home debut.

Yes, that's what I said.

Yup, was just gonna say that, they actually played him up front. Less expectation, and fans not howling at him when he took a poor touch probably helps too.

794 minutes in 365 days?. Welcome to the ward, son.

Not a huge outlay, maybe he'll be getting a jefte signing on fee. I'll get my coat.

No one said that we wanted a team full of youth.

Of course a balance is required, but right now we're not short of experienced players, we need to up the number of young, hungry players who are willing to learn and improve their game. I'd far rather see us sign Barron from the sheep than McLean, granted he's not as good a player right now, but at we have to develop young signings to gain a better team and more value in the squad. This should also alleviate our ridiculous wage bill - Apparently higher than Atalanta's. Youan from Hibs isn't a bad buy at £2.5M as well btw, he's done well in a shite team. Anyway, all of this is pure conjecture, McLean is probably just the usual lazy rumour.