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Official: Juan Manuel Ortiz a Rangers player

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NACHO NOVO reckons fellow Spaniard Juan Manuel Ortiz will never have experienced anything like the passion of the Rangers support - even though he's played in front of 100,000 fans at the Nou Camp and Bernabeu.

 

Former Ibrox hero Novo was delighted to learn his countryman has become Ally McCoist's first capture as Rangers manager and believes Ortiz will light up the SPL.

 

And he insisted the Scottish champions will give his countryman the best experience of his football career.

 

Novo, now with Sporting Gijon in La Liga, played and scored in a 1-1 draw against Ortiz's Almeria last term and feels the 29-year-old will love every minute of life in Glasgow.

 

He said: "Ortiz is leaving one of the biggest leagues in the world to come to Scotland but I think this is a step up for him because he is joining one of the biggest clubs in the world.

 

"Almeria spent four years in La Liga before going down at the end of the season but that was still a great achievement because it really is a small club.

 

"They would have loved playing against clubs like Barcelona and Real Madrid in front of crowds of nearly 100,000 but most of those fans would have been against them.

 

"Now Ortiz will be playing at Ibrox in front of 50,000 Rangers fans and he is going to experience an atmosphere like nothing else. When you have that many fans supporting you it makes you a better player and he is already good to start with."

 

McCoist is likely to hand Ortiz a role on the right side of midfield but many of his 25 games for Almeria last season were played at right-back and left-back.

 

Novo said: "He is quick and versatile. He always wants to get forward but in the match I played against Almeria, Ortiz was playing left-back and I was directly up against him on the right wing.

 

"I scored our goal and played well against him. But I know he is a very good player and this is probably the best time for Ortiz to be trying something new.

 

"He has spent all his career in Spain with some great clubs like Atletico Madrid and Osasuna but it is always exciting to go to another country and experience a different kind of football and a different culture.

 

"I loved my time in Scotland with Raith, Dundee and Rangers - playing for the Rangers supporters is something I will never forget and I will always love the club.

 

"I know Carlos Cuellar felt the same way when he was at Rangers. We spent a lot of time together and I know he would like to come back to the club.

 

"Now another Spaniard is there and I am sure Juanma will grow to love the club the way I did.

 

"Everyone looks after you so well and with the support behind him he can do great things."

 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/football/spl/rangers/2011/07/06/rangers-fans-will-help-juan-manuel-ortiz-love-time-in-glasgow-says-ex-ibrox-star-nacho-novo-86908-23250907/

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The thing that jumps out at me about this lad is he can obviously tackle, run with the ball and deliver good crosses. that is a great quality for a footballer to have and can only make us a stronger attacking unit along with a guy that will put his foot in.

 

Good news for us.

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This week has been very well engineered by Rangers.

 

We all know a lot of our fans were impatient to the verge of setting up a witch hunt directed towards Mister Whyte already because of free transfers that we were obliged to go for went elsewhere.

 

Now in the space of 48 hours we have tied up two of our most important players on what are very long contracts with very big wage rises, and it looks like davis will sign.

 

We have brought in our new Spanish lad, and more significantly the official Rangers site has mention big Carlos in two separate columns, once with Ortiz saying Carols told him how great a club we are, then him pleading with Carlos to come back to us. Rangers would NOT have made an issue of those factors unless something serious was going on. All in my own opinion of course.

 

Then today we have the Glasgow Herald spread on Craig Whyte telling the World we will not be bullied about the sectarian issue and employing this company to act as our body guard.

 

it gives you a great lift when stuff like this happens

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