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A game I would like Walter to be the Manager. My fear is Pedro might think we are the better team.

Surely Miller will be on the bench from now on.

Looking for 3 points tomorrow, though we seem to be poorer at home than away from Ibrox. Got myself into looking for improvement as the season progresses, rather than expecting/hoping to win the League, better for my health. I think we will play Jack and Rossiter against timmy, so would like to see us give it a try before hand, perhaps Thistle next week. Miller on the bench hopefully but I doubt it, I think Pedro thinks he has to play him for some reason.

Guess who just scored for Charlton.

Dodoo to Charlton

Rangers and Hearts talking, might be a Rangers player going the other way.

https://www.rangersobserver.com/news/2017/8/30/transfer-rumour-overdrive-but-rangers-targets-remain-same As we wake up to transfer day deadline it's only natural that the rumour mill will go into overdrive but Rangers fans should try to avoid the clickbait on offer from a variety of mainstream media and internet sites. The truth is that Rangers' targets have remained steady through the window and won't change as the frenzy around deadline day gets into full swing. Here is a roundup of the rumours and a quick summary of the real situation on each. Steven Naismith - Is not and never has been a target. This one understandably keeps resurfacing, not least because Naismith himself has pushed it, but it simply is not going to happen. Ben Heneghan - The Motherwell defender has shown up well against us and is touted for a move to a bigger club but it won't be Rangers. There is no plan to strengthen the centre-half positions and he is not a target. Declan John - Should be officially announced on a year long loan today and will provide good cover on the left hand side of the pitch, predominantly for Lee Wallace in the full back position. Comes with Premier League experience and will avoid Lee Hodson having to cover his less comfortable full back side. Lazar Markovic - The Liverpool winger has been linked in the past few days. File under total fantasy. Jamie Walker - This is the one piece of business which might go right to the deadline. Hearts have so far stuck to their valuation of £1m but it is not going to met by anyone, least of all Rangers. Around half of that would be acceptable to Rangers to get the deal done but, if it doesn't happen this time around, the interest will rekindled in the winter window where he should either sign on a pre-contract or a nominal January fee. Anyone taking a cursory interest in his Instagram will know the player's thoughts on the matter... Louis Moult - No interest and not ever on the radar. Gelson Dala - The young Sporting Lisbon forward was another linked in the past few days. Total nonsense. So despite all the likely, last minute bullshit you will see on deadline day, the chances are that the only remaining business to be done by Rangers will involve Jamie Walker and that depends totally on Hearts seeing sense. Don't expect to see a flurry of young, Premier League fringe players arriving at Ibrox on loan either. Mark Allen's contact book will be used to identify targets for the long term and to put in place the scouting system that Rangers have been missing for so long.

A piece running Rangers down is enough in Scotland.

RANGERS will take on English giants Manchester City, Tottenham and Liverpool as part of a new games programme for their Development Squad. The Light Blues announced earlier this year that they would not field a team in the Under-20 League this term and will instead arrange matches against Academy sides at home and abroad. The schedule is designed to enable kids to make the transition from youth football into the first team arena and will provide a unique challenge for Graeme Murty’s side. Rangers will host Brighton and Leicester next month either side of a trip south of the border to face Man City before they kick-off October with a match against Brentford. Meetings with Spurs, AZ Alkmaar and Liverpool will then follow, while they will make trips to Mechelen and Benfica in November. The following month, the Gers will travel to Southampton and Everton before they head to Spain for three outings against La Liga opposition. Rangers have also reached agreements with the likes of Ajax, Chelsea, Inter Milan, PSG and PSV Eindhoven for matches in the second half of the campaign. Head of Academy Craig Mulholland said: “Our players, staff, and indeed the supporters we have spoken with are very excited by the season ahead and the challenges our players will face. “No one knows what the outcomes will be as this is the first time an initiative such as this has been piloted. However, what I was absolutely clear on was that in order to produce a different level of player, we needed to be radical and brave enough to try something completely different. “I am delighted that it is Rangers who are leading the way with this concept and we know other clubs are watching closely. “We are playing some of the EPL and Europe’s best clubs and teams full of international players so we know how challenging it will be in some matches for our players but we want to create this struggle by design. Elite sportspeople succeed through challenge and struggle and we will expose our young Rangers players to exactly that.” http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/rangers/15499601.Rangers_line_up_Premier_League_and_European_tests_for_Under_20_side_as_part_of_new_games_programme/

Pedro Caixinha is currently the head coach of Rangers Football Club. He joined Scottish Premiership club Rangers on a three-year deal on 11st of March 2017, after worked 2 seasons in Al-Gharafa in Qatar. Before the experience in Qatar, Pedro Caixinha was working in Club Santos Laguna as head coach. He won all the Mexican trophies in season 2014/15 (Mexican Cup Apertura 2014, Mexican League Clausura 2015, and Mexican “Campeón de Campeones” 2015), as well as achieved the final of CONCACAF Champions League 2013. On 15th of August 2015, after won all of this, Caixinha decided to quit to work in Al-Gharafa. In addition to academic License and Master Degree in Sports Science (namely in Methodology of Football Training), Pedro Caixinha have also the highest international level License for a Football Coach <UEFA PRO>, taken at the F.P.F. – Portuguese Football Federation. Pedro started his career as Head Coach in the year 1999 (with 28 years of age), in his hometown football club C. D. Beja, coaching the young and the main teams during a period of 4 years. After that, he moved to the neighbor city of Vidigueira, to coach C. F. Vasco da Gama during 1 year, when he traveled to Lisbon, to make part of the world-renowned Scouting Department of Sporting Clube de Portugal, club where he started to work as Assistant Coach as well, in 2004. After Sporting C.P. reached the final of the UEFA Cup, he leaved the club and continued to work as Assistant Coach of José Peseiro in Al-Hilal F. C. of Saudi Arabia, Panathinaikos of Greece, Rapid Bucharest of Romania and National Team of Saudi Arabia where, besides Assistant of the main National Team, he was challenged to take charge of the K.S.A. Olympic Team in 2010, leading the “Project LONDON 2012”, when he received an invitation to return to Portugal and start coaching at the highest level, as Head Coach, in the Super League club U. D. Leiria. One year later he was asked to lead the project of the C. D. Nacional of Madeira. On December 2012, Pedro Caixinha signed with Club Santos Laguna of Mexico and Managed the team during almost 3 years, until August 2015. During the first period of one and half years in charge of the team (3 tournaments), he achieved the Playoffs (La Liguilla) of the Mexican League (LigaMX), 3 consecutive times, reaching always the semifinals of the competition. Meanwhile, he qualified the club to the Final of the CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2013 and achieved the historical qualification for the CONMEBOL COPA LIBERTADORES 2014 (the 2nd time in the history of the club Santos Laguna, 10 years after their 1st and unique participation until that moment). At the end of the season 2013/14, Pedro Caixinha was on the “Football Coach World Ranking”: The 36th best football coach of the world The 3rd best Portuguese football coach working worldwide Following the Apertura 2014 tournament, on October 2014, he achieved the title of CopaMX (MEXICAN CUP), for the first time ever, in the history of the Club. Showing and proving the excellence of the work made by Pedro Caixinha’s coach team, Club Santos Laguna was named “the 2014 BEST CLUB of all CONCACAF region”, by the IFFHS (International Federation of Football History and Statistics) on the “Club World Ranking 2014” annual report, published on January 13, 2015, where Club Santos Laguna is listed, for the first time ever, in the group of the best 100 clubs of the world, coming in the 58th position, of the Best Clubs of the World. Following the amazing achievements of 2014 described above, Pedro Caixinha started 2015 doing a deep restructuring/renewal on the squad, where the most valuable, experimented and influential players of the team left the club, transforming the team to the youngest squad of the LigaMX (average 23,5 YO). Even so, he achieved sensationally the title of Champion of LigaMX (MEXICAN LEAGUE)! With this title, Pedro Caixinha is the most victorious coach in the history of the club and the first European coach to win the LigaMX in the last 35 years! Personally, he was awarded by the LigaMX (Mexican League) with the Trophy of the Best Coach in Mexico! Immediately after that, in the beginning of Apertura 2015, Pedro Caixinha achieved another historical Trophy with Club Santos Laguna, the Campeón de Campeones 2015 (1st time ever in the history of the Club), beating America FC in the Final, and fixing 3 Stars with his name in Santos Laguna’s Stadium! After this last achievement, Pedro Caixinha decided to leave the Club Santos Laguna, on August 15th, 2015… Pedro Caixinha, is known for his strong and determined character, with great leadership and work spirit (as a team and for the team) where he shows his immense entrepreneurial capacity, putting in practice a modern and innovative training methodology, idealizing, using and taking advantage of new technologies that we currently have available and that are both pleasing to all athletes, motivating and strengthening the unity of the working group, thereby enhancing the final results to be achieved. His strongest concept is “dominating all the moments of the game”. http://football.fmh.ulisboa.pt/speaker/pedro-caixinha/

Pedro Caixinha will leave his director of football Mark Allen in charge of transfer business this week as he expects to welcome even more additions to his Rangers squad. The Portuguese coach has already signed ten new players this summer and hopes to continue his revamp of the Ibrox side before the transfer window closes on Thursday night. Caixinha, pictured, who saw a double from Alfredo Morelos, and a first Rangers goal for Eduardo Herrera secure a much-needed 3-1 win over Ross County in Dingwall yesterday, will join his players in taking time off during the international break but will remain in touch with Allen. “Mark will be in charge of it,” said Caixinha. “I will go to a university class in Portugal this week. I will be in contact with Mark. We know what we want. We are working on what we want and we hope to get it. “I’m pleased with the work of the boys and the result. They will now have four days off, time to recover and plenty of time to prepare for the next match.” Caixinha was not completely satisfied with his team’s performance against County, who hit back from a 2-0 half-time deficit to score through Thomas Mikkelsen before Herrera’s late strike. “Winning is the most important thing and we did that today,” said Caixinha. “I was pleased with the first-half performance but I didn’t like the way we lost possession easily at times in the second half. That led to the goal we conceded and gave momentum to the opponent. “Two-nil is always a false result. When the other team score, it can create doubts. We didn’t control the game by having the ball and that’s something we need to analyse with the players. We had to reorganise the team with substitutions.” Carlos Pena was among the replacements Caixinha introduced and he predicts big things from the Mexican midfielder whose limited involvement so far has been a source of concern for Rangers fans. “You saw how many times Carlos got in the box, even coming in from the left,” said Caixinha. “He just needs the right rhythm and that comes from minutes in games, not just in training. He will be a totally different player. I have no doubts about the kind of player we have in Carlos. “All of the new players are interesting players. We just need to give them time and confidence, which is what we have been doing so far.” Ross County manager Jim McIntyre was left exasperated by the level of his team’s first-half display. “We were so guilty of giving the ball away,” he said. “We were nervous. There was a lack of belief. “We never took the game to Rangers. They got into a 2-0 lead and we played a major part in it. I was looking for a reaction in the second half. There had to be. The first half was unacceptable and not something we will tolerate.” Read more at: http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/teams/rangers/rangers-boss-says-director-of-football-to-oversee-transfers-1-4544032

Still think we are one short in the middle, thought we kept it better when Pena came on.

We could have a goal scorer on the books, first for a while. Hope Herrera partners him.

McCoist standing there in silence told me all I need to know about him.

Sutton a disgrace in the after match interview with Pedro.

We needed these 3 points going into the break. Put ourselves into trouble with poor passes throughout the game.

No excuses today, we have to take 3 points. Miller up front in a 4-4-2, or Miller out wide in 4-5-1 ?

@RFC_Youth final score against @Feyenoord_int 2-2 Dallas & Barjonas with the goals. ⚪️

2-0 Rangers Jamie Barjonas Thanks to SpatesonBear2 on twitter.

1-0 Rangers Andy Dallas with the goal

Rangers under 20 team against Feyenoord - Wright, Houston, McCrorie, Mayo, Beerman, Palmer, Barjonas, Thompson, Atakayi, Rudden & Dallas

@RFC_Youth Development squad arrived in Holland ready to play Feyenoord. Great evening meal and some rest ready for tomorrow.

Game tomorrow.

Sounds good, hope it brings the rewards. WITH a grin from ear to ear it is evident Graeme Murty can’t wait for his side’s first game of their new season against Dutch side Feyenoord. The Under 20s kick off their innovative new games programme this Saturday against last season’s Eredivisie Champions in Rotterdam and to say the Head Development Squad Coach is excited is an understatement. The academy players will test themselves against Europe’s elite this term after pulling out of the SPFL Development League. Speaking to RangersTV Murty said: “I can’t wait, I can’t wait to challenge the players, I can’t wait to go to a new environment and see how the players manage it and cope with it, and see if they feel as though they worthy of being on the same pitch. “I think that’s a national and British problem, that we feel inferior at times technically and tactically to continental teams. So I can’t wait to see how the boys react.” “We wanted a continental one for the first one and Feyenoord came up, they said they could accommodate us and we couldn’t wait to go to be honest. “But I’ve looked at the list of names in the fixtures and I think there are some great names in there, some great challenges for the players and I honestly can’t wait to start. Bring it on.” Murty knows the decision to put his team up against the world’s best at their age level will be a tough ask at times but he insists it will provide a crucial lesson for the young Gers. He continued: “What we said to them is all the things that we did need to be done to a higher standard. “So the games model won’t change. We will try to play the same way, we’ll try and dominate the ball, and we’ll try and press in the same manner if it works. “It’ll be a learning curve for the coaches as well so we’ll look and we’ll decide if there is anything tactically we need to change, but we’ve told all the players they need to be much sharper. “They need to be much tighter, they need to be much more focussed and I think that of all the things that are going to happen to the players this year, mentally they are going to be fatigued. “They are going to have to concentrate so hard and that’s the reason we have done it, to make sure they get stressed in the right way and we want to see how they cope. “We’re going to try and safely break them and put them back together again better than they were before. “We want the player to figure out the formation, we want the player to figure out their style and their strengths and weaknesses. If I go and fix everything for them, and I’m not saying I can because it will be new to me as well, all I’m going to realise is what I already know and I live in my head 24/7, no-one else wants to go in there! “It’s about the players. I need to know what they know and what they don’t know so we can help them develop. It will be hard and it will be a test, but that’s what we are doing it for.” http://rng.rs/2w3EKAz

If McKay wanted to stay and was offered less than others, then to me that's unbelievable. The most gifted players we have brought through for ages.