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Doesn't anyone think Jim Stewart could have been an easy candidate for his 'local expert'? 10 years experience of the club and all the Scottish leagues while we've passed through them won't be easy to find.....

Its amazing what the need to impress a new manager can do.....

Whenever I watch these sort of training videos it makes me wish i was out there doing it...

Theres no way it would happen but we should have trained something completely different this week, something that Celtic would have not been prepared for and hopefully therefore, test their players ability to adapt and react. I'm probably mad, but why not try a 3-6-1. When not in possession, its a 5-4-1 as the 2 wingbacks will sit and defend. It gives a strong defensive base, with the ability to flood the midfield and strangle the game and hopefully slow down the ball forward from them, the wing backs then give the ability to hit them on the counter. 3 central defenders means one can sweep up through balls to their pacy players who will try and run in behind. One sitting. midfielder, two central midfielders and an attacking midfielder to support the lone striker. It definitely wouldn't be pretty, but it would get the Celtic fans on their teams back as they'll be expecting a whipping and then hopefully the players could take advantage of that

I would guess this is one of a few reasons why the compensation fee seems relatively large for a man with 45 days left on his contract, we're effectively paying compensation for 4 people....

“I know your dentist uses scaffolding but hold on a minute Chris.”

Maybe it's Weiss, and he's talking about somebody at al gharafa

Precisely, more than likely he would have been told to say that for purposes of raising the profile of a partner club(Celtic) in the country(Mexico)

For somebody who earned so much money while managing us, also unemployed at the time, it seems slight ridiculous that he couldn't either postpone his trip abroad, or if not that, at the very least, make a quick trip back to place his vote. I find it hard to understand if he loves Rangers as much as he professes, why he couldn't make that little effort.....

Can't find anything that I disagree with in that

Get that tae fu...

What worries me, and why i do really feel for Murty, is that this whole experience could have a whole host of other knock effects, such as... - Put him off wanting to be a manager in the future (you never know, he could develop a decent ability for it) - Lose him respect from younger players who look at the situation and think "He's not winning games, even with the senior players" - Lose him respect from senior players Thats just off the top of my head at the moment, i'm sure people could think of other issues

Here's a couple of lines from an interview he did... Frank de Boer reveals the chaos at Inter with Mauro Icardi and Marcelo Brozovic got too much for him. “We had three months, but honestly it felt like a year.” The former Ajax Coach was drafted in to replace Roberto Mancini just two weeks before the Serie A season kicked off and was fired 85 days later. “Leaving Ajax after 25 years as player, coach and manager was hard, but sometimes you are saying the same things, you need a new challenge, like Pep Guardiola,” De Boer told the Daily Mail. “But at Inter I had to deal with so many things away from football, you lose energy. “Every time you thought, ‘Finally, a good result, everything has calmed down,’ then comes Mauro Icardi's book or Marcelo Brozovic is in the discotheque and you have to punish him. “We only had three months but honestly, it felt like a year.” Inter were fined on Wednesday for Icardi’s autobiography, as it included threats to bring criminals over from Argentina to attack ultras. Brozovic was dropped for a couple of weeks, but the club never revealed why De Boer had taken disciplinary action – evidently the Croatia international had been out partying into the early hours. “Attractive football and dominating in the opposition half, winning the ball back as quickly as possible. This is what I stand for,” continued De Boer. “Discipline is everything, but it's about knowing when. One player at Ajax, Mounir El Hamdaoui, he stayed in the toilet for 10 minutes at half-time then gave me the big mouth. You think, 'If I don't do something here, they're going to play with my balls'. “That was it, 'Okay, you're off'. You either win the group or lose it. They need to respect you.”

Next Rangers manager: Frank de Boer in London as club continue talks over new structure FRANK DE BOER is in London as Rangers continue talks with potential management candidates. The Glasgow giants are looking for a new boss following the departure of Mark Warburton and his team of David Weir and Frank McParland. The Rangers board have begun interviewing candidates in London for both the manager and director of football roles. De Boer is on the shortlist and admits he’s ready to return to the UK to work. The legendary Holland defender was sacked by Inter Milan earlier this season after just three months in charge. And De Boer was in London this week for an interview with the Daily Mail and when asked if he could return to Rangers by a fan passing by he said: “I would love to manage here, but the project has to be right. “I told Liverpool I was honoured but I was only one year in at Ajax, it was too soon. I needed to achieve more, and I did.” De Boer spent six months at Rangers as a player at the back-end of his career and has been backed for the manager’s job by former team-mate Artur Numan. The former Rangers and Holland left-back insists De Boer would be a catch for the Ibrox side. “If you can get Frank you get someone with a lot of experience at the highest level as a player and a coach,” Numan told the Sun. “But he is a very sought-after coach and I know he will have a lot of offers to choose from. “He had incredible success at Ajax, playing some terrific football, and is one of the most exciting young coaches around at the moment. “I’m sure he will be successful again, whether it’s with Rangers or another club. “Frank has made it clear he will wait until the end of the season before making a decision, so if Rangers want to sign him they will have to wait until June.” Lifted from the Express website, but also saw similar on twitter from other sources. I am sure its no co-incidence, as he said, he'd always listen but, even though he's there, I still think he'd be a long shot

Well, thats a relief

A 3-5-2 formation is what I have thought would be good for us with our players.. It would be a 3-5-2 in possession, switching to a 5-3-2 when we lose the ball.. I agree with putting Halliday in the LWB role as its more familiar to him and will take a little bit of pressure off him and maybe allow him to recapture some kind of form.. The only change i would make is to remove Holt, I think he would be best coming on as a sub in the McKay position, although, we're not exactly blessed with options, I would go for Toral.... The advantage of having 3 at the back is it allows one centre back to step up and break up play when required...

I agree, I think a lot of pressure (obviously not all) can be relieved on all sides if there is just better communication.

Just me that thinks this could be McLeish assisted by Murty??

Would this be the statement to which you are referring? Jim White ‏@JimWhite 14m14 minutes ago Rangers chairman Dave King tells me Board may consider interim solution following Mark Warburton departure.

I think (I hope) that one of the things made very clear to any new manager, will be that there are not large sums of money to be spent and they will have to understand that a reliance, and therefore improvement on the academy is one of the priorities....

The problem with player resale value is not necessarily one that we can solve on our own... The Scottish leagues are seen as an area that can be taken advantage of, where gems can be searched for with not much risk because the price is cheap.. The reason we will do well to get a get a good re-sale on somebody like Dodoo is because, in the opinion of potential suitors, he is playing in a sub standard league, in a team that is under performing and he can't even get into the first 11.. The reason he was worth 8-9 million IMO is because, at the time, he was playing for the Premiership champions, had he been playing for an English League 1 team, even if he had the same potential, I think he would more likely be quoted as a million pound player. I think a lot of player value comes from the club they play for rather than their actual ability/potential, which leads to the point about Celtic. They can sell players at a higher value because they are playing well and more importantly, they are playing in the champions league, lets be honest if there was no champions league, do you think anybody would be quoting Dembele for £40million, he'd be quoted at £10million, at a push..

maybe the hate 'mob' will crash it if we're not, and the 'army' of stewards will have to get involved

down for me too

I agree to an extent as, imo, there have been a few ocassions where he has just switched off completely and been caught ball watching. If you watch him in the box whenever the opposition team is on the attack on the opposite flank, he seems to be drawn to the penalty spot, rather than tracking his man. At the same time though, if there is so much post-match analysis being done, I would have thought this would have been picked up, pointed out and him trained on his defensive positioning.