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We earn more points for a win than Real Madrid, at least we have over the past 5 years. The points are based on how many teams are in Europe from your country. That’s why going from 4 to 5 teams in Europe has been bad for us. It has diluted our points further. Scotland’s current position in the rankings is unsustainable and we’ll slide down the rankings pretty quickly now.

Knowing our luck... "Jack tore both calves while doing sprints up sands dunes under Clarke's instruction and John Souttar ruptured his Achilles while trying to help him up. Both will now miss the full season."

It’s not a case of his contract being extended.

Incredible. I thought Bayern would be winning it comfortably again. A shame if Dortmund don’t because it’s good to see monopolies broken.

Playing in Kent’s position there. When was the last time Kent did that?

Have to say I enjoy Sakala scoring so many when he gets so much stick. A strange player, but he creates chances that most of our forwards don’t.

Strangely, I think he’s the best we have at beating a man in a one on one, because his explosive acceleration. Unfortunately there is too much lacking in his game.

King has not impressed at all. Needs a loan somewhere like St Mirren to prove that he is even capable of playing well at that level at his age.

Replacing Kent and Morelos is a huge test for the recruitment team. More Matondo or Sakala type signings will hand them 3 in a row. Quality is needed.

The points stands, it’s a time when players are available at a cut price and we often see good players sold at that time. There was no word of interest last summer or January. We’ll see how good the offers are, and how well they do. I wish them the best but I don’t expect much from either.

Our shocking defensive record when Goldson isn’t playing continues. We need money spent on that position.

Embarrassing and predictable.

We don’t do clean sheets when Goldson isn’t playing

Have a look at over the city. Several examples. It’s a good time to buy at cut price. We do it too.

I think it’s telling how long it has been since there has been serious interest in them though. August 2020 were the last good bids for Morelos and Kent, and the only ones that we know of I think. No bids as they entered their final 12 months is very telling. I'm sure we wouldn't haven't been that hard to deal with.

That’s a false dilemma. We’ll never know what would have happened if we’d sold him when we had a chance. I think we’d have replaced him with a better player.

Those things are used too much to excuse failures over the past years though. Celtic have been comfortably the best team in Scotland since 55. That's a huge failure, regardless of the EL run.

£1m was obviously a huge bargain. But people forget that he’s been paid well over that a year in recent years. Remember how many pay rises he got over the years. What was frustrating was that the club didn’t seem to see the downward trend with Morelos since 2019, or that his form was unusually good in 2019 and that it was a great time to sell (like Bassey). I think he’s a player who peaked early in his career.

What a wonderful day. Never thought some of those players would leave. It should have been a long time ago and hanging onto them cost us in more ways than one. Big opportunity for Beale to put those freed up wages to better use now!

We’ve played 15 games without Goldson this season and only had 2 clean sheets in those games. One against Championship side. And our league record is 5W 2D 3L. Which is shocking, dropped points more often than not. Hopefully tomorrow is different. Looking at that record, it’s hard to say that anything has cost us more than poor recruitment at centre half last summer.

Hopefully the wages are much reduced so that it’s a better deal for us. I’d prefer if we’d moved on and given the place in the squad to someone who will be available for more of the season.

What percentage of Rangers signings are even a success? Less than 50% anyway.

Is this a “trust the experts" comment? What's the point in a forum if we can't discuss potential signings?

I think people are assuming he’s strong because he’s [snip] tbh. His stats show he is actually pretty weak, very low success for duels when he has the ball and low across the board for defensive stats. I’m not overly convinced on this one, but his goals and assists stats are good and for little to no fee it does seem shrewd.

Where are these stats from? Is it comparing with MLS centre mids only? And what’s the sample pool? I find the stats hard to believe. From a very brief look at YouTube, he doesn’t look that good to me. Something not right about his technique. The guy from Aston Villa/QPR looked better.