Summer Transfer thread - fun while it lasted!

[Frankie 8,186]

Jamie Murphy would be perfect.

[laudrup11 0]

Jamie Murphy would be a great signing, still feel we need to sort the defence out first though if Bougherra is to leave we will be left short at back.

 

Carlos Cuellar is ideal option but won't be ready to play for a while yet so would need someone who isn't Kirk Broadfoot to play straight away.

 

Johnny Evans from Man Utd on loan has been rumoured maybe something in that with Man Utd having Jones and Smalling as back up to Ferdinand and Vidic now.

Edited July 25, 2011 by laudrup11

[metlika 0]

Jonny Evans is a total bomb scare would not want him even if he is from Man Utd, can be easily turned by any forward.

[chilledbear 16]

Jamie Murphy would be perfect.

 

Wigan interested ?

[der Berliner 3,292]

Have a gut feeling that if we sign someone for the CL, it is none of those making the headlines this day ...

[Stefanovitch 0]

Jim Spence says Rangers and Blackpool have been in touch with Dun Utd this evening about Goodwillie. 10 clubs interested. He also says Goodwillie would prefer to move to England.

[Guest Dutchy]

Jim Spence may prefer him not going to Rangers, but his opinions of what Goodwillie will do is 100% pure speculation on Spence's part.

[Stefanovitch 0]

Spurious link here

 

Old quotes though - nothing new.

 

SCOTLAND star David Goodwillie is set to clinch a move to Rangers after a rape charge against him was dropped.

 

The Ibrox club contacted Dundee United just minutes after the striker saw the sex attack case against him scrapped.

Goodwillie had been accused of assaulting a 24-year-old woman at a New Year party.

But yesterday the Crown Office confirmed he would face no further action.

A spokesman added: "After careful consideration of all the facts, Crown counsel has instructed no proceedings on the basis that there is insufficient evidence. The case is now closed."

A spokesman for Goodwillie said the 22-year-old was "very relieved" at the decision.

The star had been accused of attacking the girl after going to a house in Armadale, West Lothian.

The alleged incident happened just hours after he scored the equaliser in his side's 1-1 draw at Aberdeen.

His team-mate David Robertson, 24, was also quizzed by police over the claims but was not charged.

Goodwillie made his international debut against the Faroe Islands last year.

United are looking for a �£2million fee for him, with chairman Stephen Thompson determined to hold out for that amount.

In April, Goodwillie told how he had been targeted over the allegations.

He said: "If I didn't have my football I don't know where I'd be. My family told me that the only way to answer opposition fans was by playing well.

"It's upsetting for them but it is just words and they will never hurt me.

"Everybody who has stood by me has been brilliant."

 

 

Read more: http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/3714371/Scotland-star-David-Goodwillie-is-set-to-clinch-a-move-to-Rangers-after-a-rape-charge-against-him-was-dropped.html#ixzz1T9vqKr9p

[ian1964 10,459]

RANGERS had a �£1 million bid for David Goodwillie rejected last night, only hours after it emerged that a rape charge against the striker has been dropped.

The Ibrox side made a �£1 million-plus offer to United last month but that was rejected by chairman Stephen Thompson, and last night they tabled a similar offer which was also immediately booted out by the Tannadice club.

 

United had agreed in principle with Cardiff City to transfer Goodwillie to the Championship but while deliberations continued over the charges the player faced, the Welsh club looked elsewhere, with Kenny Miller and Robert Earnshaw signing on for Malky Mackay's side recently.

 

Blackpool have been long-time admirers of the 22-year-old Scotland international and remain firmly in the hunt, with chairman Karl Oyston maintaining regular contact with United for the past six weeks.

 

Oyston has asked to be kept abreast of all developments and the windfall received by the Championship side following their relegation from the Premiership could see them double Rangers' offer - and pay up front.

 

With Goodwillie now free of the threat of court action, United expect to move him on quickly.

 

It also emerged last night that Goodwillie is back in the plans of national team manager Craig Levein after the Crown Office said there was insufficient evidence in law for the case against the player to proceed. "One of the reasons he hasn't been involved until now is because of the charge hanging over him," Levein told the BBC.

 

"Now that has been dropped, on merit I think he's as good a young striker as there is in Scotland and certainly he'll be one I'll be thinking about."

 

Rangers had more luck elsewhere in the transfer market yesterday, when Dorin Goian signed a three-year contract at Ibrox but the Romanian international defender is unlikely to be able to make his debut for the club in the first leg of their Champions League third qualifying round tie against Malmo at Ibrox this evening.

 

While Rangers were able to register Goian in their squad with Uefa ahead of last night's 11pm deadline for the tie, he cannot play for them until he receives a work permit from the UK Border Agency.

 

Goian, who has moved to Rangers from Italian club Palermo for a fee in the region of �£500,000, does not meet the criteria necessary to have his work permit application automatically approved.

 

Injury has prevented the 30-year-old former Steaua Bucharest player from appearing in the required 75 per cent of his country's full international matches over the past two years. Goian's work permit will almost certainly be issued in the event of an appeal from Rangers but the process is unlikely to be concluded in time for tonight's game.

 

Next Wednesday's second leg in Malmo is a more realistic target for a player Rangers manager Ally McCoist was delighted to make his third signing of the summer after Spanish winger Juan Manuel Ortiz and Scotland left-back Lee Wallace.

 

"Dorin will be a big asset for our squad," said McCoist. "He is very strong and aggressive. He wins his headers and tackles. Importantly for me, he has played at a very good level. Some might say the Italian league is the best in Europe in terms of the standards of defenders.

 

"He has Champions League experience as well so that helps. I hope he gets the chance to sample more of that here. You would hope that the factors of where he has played, his own experience and so on means he ticks a few boxes and it becomes less of a gamble. I have not seen him live personally, but a couple of the staff have done so and I have looked at a number of matches on DVD."

 

McCoist insists the capture of Goian does not end his interest in other defensive targets, including former Rangers player Carlos Cuellar, or make him willing to sell Madjid Bougherra. Rangers have turned down a bid, reportedly in excess of �£2 million, from Qatari champions Lekhwiya for Bougherra, who is in the final year of his contract at Ibrox.

 

"I am still looking to bring in more defenders," said McCoist. "No deal is dead. Cuellar is certainly not a dead deal for us. I would rule nobody out. We have knocked back the bid from Qatar for Bougherra and I don't want him to go anywhere. Madjid is one of our stronger players.

 

"I have had a couple of discussions with Madjid. I know his views on his situation, he knows my views. Most importantly, we both know the importance of the next couple of weeks or next month at our club. That's the most important thing. If he signed an extension to his contract then obviously that would be my ideal situation. But obviously there are other factors come into it. Does he want to sign another contract? Does he want to go? All these sorts of things. He hasn't said anything to me (about not wanting to play for Rangers).

 

"You hope obviously that players turn up for their work and I don't see any reason why that shouldn't be the case with Madjid.

 

"I have discussed it with him and I would rather those discussions between Madjid and I remained private."

 

McCoist also made it clear that his quest to increase his central defensive options should not automatically be seen as an indication that 41-year-old David Weir, who returns from suspension to face Malmo tonight, will be less involved this season.

 

"Time will tell," said McCoist, "but nobody thought Davie would play more than 50 games for Rangers last season.

 

"When we got turned over at Celtic Park in February, they were writing his obituaries as a Rangers player but he came back and was out of this world for us.

 

"The way he finished the season would indicate he is far from finished. In fact, I'm looking forward to seeing Davie pull on a Rangers jersey again."

 

http://sport.scotsman.com/sport/Rangers-fail-with-fresh-David.6807637.jp?articlepage=1

[der Berliner 3,292]

Somehow I .... made a double post, see below. Mea culpa.

Edited July 26, 2011 by der Berliner