Danny Wilson

[Guest Guivarc'h]

He'll most likely be loaned out. It's probably them with an eye on the new Home Grown Players Rule... (If that's going ahead) and the lack of English players they currently have!

 

Any guesses as to where he'll be loaned out?

 

His old man's boyhood heroes, Ra Cellic.

[Totti 0]

I think selling Wilson for 2 million with potential to rise to 5 million is great business.

 

1) He only had maybe 10 good games for Rangers.

2) He wants to leave.

3) We are well covered at centre half.

 

Lets see how good he is without Weir next to him!

 

The only downside is the squad is down 1 more number.

He's only just turned 18. Weir is an old man and in England he'll likely play with a far superior central defender even at reserve level or the championship.

 

How well covered are we at centre half? We will barely have a team at this rate.

 

But you know what? I don't really give a fuck anymore. We know we have fuck all future and are on the brink of meltdown.

[Gribz 743]

He's only just turned 18. Weir is an old man and in England he'll likely play with a far superior central defender even at reserve level or the championship.

 

How well covered are we at centre half? We will barely have a team at this rate.

 

But you know what? I don't really give a fuck anymore. We know we have fuck all future and are on the brink of meltdown.

 

I think your underestimating Weir's personality and to help Wilson on during games. I dont think the likes of Skrtel or Agger will care about Wilson so much and Carragher is likely to just gob off at him if he makes an error.

 

For centre half we have Bougherra, Weir, Webster, Broadfoot and even Papac. Plus McCulloch (who I hope never plays there again. If we sign Gonvales then he is another.

[ian1964 10,457]

The 18-year-old has joined the Anfield club in a �£2m transfer which could ultimately be worth �£5m to Rangers, depending on appearances.

 

However, Miller believes Wilson has been lured to Merseyside by the idea of playing in the Barclays Premier League, without having thought the move fully through. The former Rangers defender, now manager of AIK Stockholm, the Swedish champions, feels it would have been better for Wilson’s development as a player to have stayed in Glasgow and learned his trade under Walter Smith.

 

“I think it is the wrong way to go,” Miller said. “I know that people will say, ‘How do you turn down a move to Liverpool?’ but it is not a move to the Liverpool first team. He will go down there and without a doubt be on the periphery of the senior side. That is no good. For young players to keep developing they need to be playing in the first team, as simple as that. My fear would be that without that he will stagnate. He certainly won’t be learning the way he would if he was playing week-in, week-out.

 

“I know Rangers might have been keen to take the money because of the situation they are in, but I would imagine Walter [smith] would have tried to talk Danny into staying. It would have been in his best interests to stay at Rangers for another season and possibly even another one after that. It is too early for him to go now.

 

“What you need to get through to young players in that situation is that if they stay and improve they can move to a big club, but as a player capable of going straight into the first-team. That is not the case for Danny just now. He is only starting out and he will find that he still has quite a bit to learn.

 

“When I was manager of Hibernian, John Collins wanted a move. I told him he wasn’t ready for it, that he needed more time to learn the game. He took the advice and when he did get the move to Celtic he went into the first team and was a big player for them. He went on to have a fantastic career, but every player needs to have a good grounding first.”

 

Miller spent nine years at Anfield, as head of the scouting network under Gerard Houllier before becoming a first-team coach when Rafa Benitez arrived, and retains many contacts in Liverpool. He warned Wilson that the players ahead of him in the first-team queue will not cede their places lightly.

 

“I know the set-up at Liverpool and I know a lot of the players who are still at the club,” Miller said. “Jamie Carragher, Daniel Agger and Glen Johnson are strong, strong characters. They will not be pushed out of the side easily. Danny might feel that even training with them will bring him on a bit, but for me there is no greater learning curve than playing first-team games. He would have got that at Rangers this season and he would also have got good advice. Aside from Walter on the training ground, he would have had David Weir giving him all kinds of verbal coaching throughout games. That is invaluable.”

[Wija 0]

Good luck to the boy. �£2M plus add ons for an 18 year old who is far from proven.