Guest Dutchy Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 We've not spent any money, that's why Whyte can turn this deal down. Ally must have convinced him he's essential to us for qualification to the CL via the title, then he'll be gone once that's secured. Crickey! We might become a rich club, then we'll lose the title no doubt. Arrrrgghhhhhh...... 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazza_8 233 Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Apparently the "unnamed club" who made a �£9m bid for Jelavic was Liverpool. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian1964 10,429 Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 LIVERPOOL failed in a shock deadline day swoop for Nikica Jelavic. SunSport can reveal Anfield boss Kenny Dalglish moved to land the Ibrox ace yesterday afternoon. Rangers dismissed the offer and insisted the hitman was going NOWHERE. King Kenny was looking for attacking options after losing David Ngog, Raul Meireles and Joe Cole. He signed up Craig Bellamy from Manchester City but Jelavic was on his radar. Dalglish chanced his arm with a cheeky bid to take the hitman on loan before he made a more realistic offer. Then Leicester, who had a �£6.5m offer turned down on Tuesday, topped Liverpool's bid as they came back in last night with an increased deal. That, too, was rejected.Rangers insiders also claimed there was a late �£9million bid tabled for Jelavic from an UNNAMED club just hours before the transfer window closed. Kyle Hutton and John Fleck missed out on a loan move to Sheffield United with the paperwork not done in time and James Beattie's had his contract ripped up. Meanwhile, Kaizer Chiefs branded Gers' �£100,000 offer for South Africa skipper Siphiwe Tshabalala an insult. Agent Jazzman Mahlakgane said: "They tried to get him on loan first and then they were offering �£100,000. It's an insult." Read more: http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/spl/3787591/Gers-KO-Kop-bid-for-Jela.html#ixzz1WgkkRroE 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazza_8 233 Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Jelavic's Ibrox future was secured when he pledged his allegiance to boss Ally McCoist during a long-distance heart-to-heart phone call from the Croatian national team HQ on deadline day. Daily Record. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian1964 10,429 Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 NIKICA JELAVIC’S Rangers future was secured when he pledged his allegiance to boss Ally McCoist during a long-distance heart-to-heart yesterday. Record Sport can reveal the Croatian striker, who is back in Zagreb on international duty, held a no-holds-barred conversation with rookie boss McCoist over the phone at around 3pm on a frantic final day of the transfer market. McCoist was concerned his talismanic hitman might have been seduced by the idea of a lucrative move OUT of Ibrox after learning the SPL champs had booted out a Ã?£6.5million bid from big spenders Leicester City on Tuesday. As McCoist braced himself for in increased offer from Foxes’ boss Sven-Goran Eriksson ahead of last night’s deadline, he picked up the phone to discover if Jelavic’s heart is still in it. And the answer he received helped him heave a huge sigh of relief, after also learning that Aston Villa boss Alex McLeish had decided not to follow up on an official approach for another key man, Steve Davis. McCoist confirmed: “Yes, I had a conversation with Nikica this afternoon and, while I won’t go into details about a private discussion, I don’t mind telling you that I heard everything I wanted to hear from him. “You do worry that players heads can be turned in situations such as this but there is no doubt in my mind that Nikica Jelavic wants to be a Rangers player. “Needless to say I’m delighted to still have him because he is vital to what we are trying to achieve.” McCoist, however, now heads into a title battle with rivals Celtic without securing permanent deals for any of the names on his summer list of priority targets. Despite his best efforts he was unable to put a dent in the "Ã?£15million warchest" which had been promised to him by the club’s new owner Craig Whyte. And yet it could have been much worse for the Gers boss had Davis and Jelavic – who was the subject of a late Ã?£9million bid from an unnamed club last night – been stolen from him at the eleventh hour. While Leicester boss Eriksson moved instead for Everton striker Jermaine Beckford, McLeish also backed off. The Villa gaffer snapped up ex-Rangers full-back Alan Hutton on a permanent deal and his Spurs team-mate Jermaine Jenas on loan from White Hart Lane. McLeish then confirmed to Record Sport he decided against angering his old club with a hostile last-ditch offer for star man Davis. He said: “It’s true we made an approach for Steven Davis. We were told the player was not for sale so I concentrated on going after other targets.” Meanwhile, Rangers yesterday ripped up James Beattie’s contract and allowed Northern Ireland international Andrew Little to go out on loan to Port Vale. And late last night Ibrox kids John Fleck and Kyle Hutton joined Sheffield United on six-month deals. Reports in Africa also claimed Rangers had a Ã?£100,000 offer for South Africa international Siphiwe Tshabalala rejected by Kaizer Chiefs. El Hadji Diouf – who was on loan at Gers last season – also won’t be heading to Ibrox. The striker was yesterday freed by Blackburn but McCoist does not intend to offer him a second stint at the club. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/2011/09/01/rangers-star-nikica-jelavic-pledged-future-to-club-during-heart-to-heart-chat-reveals-boss-ally-mccoist-86908-23387664/ 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig 5,199 Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Apparently the "unnamed club" who made a �£9m bid for Jelavic was Liverpool. You sure about this Gav ? I read the report and it seemed that there was a bid from Leicester (as we know), one from Liverpool and one from yet another club. Any reports I have seen seem to suggest that there was a third club in for him. The reporting was vague so it wasnt exactly clear - but I thought that the "unnamed" club was someone other than Liverpool. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig 5,199 Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 "Jelavic's Ibrox future was secured when he pledged his allegiance to boss Ally McCoist during a long-distance heart-to-heart phone call from the Croatian national team HQ on deadline day." This, if true, is very, very important in my opinion. This hopefully shows the player DOES want to be at Ibrox and is happy to be here. If that is the case then we may see him return to his best. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian1964 10,429 Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 "Jelavic's Ibrox future was secured when he pledged his allegiance to boss Ally McCoist during a long-distance heart-to-heart phone call from the Croatian national team HQ on deadline day." This, if true, is very, very important in my opinion. This hopefully shows the player DOES want to be at Ibrox and is happy to be here. If that is the case then we may see him return to his best. I've never heard anything else tbh Craig. I don't know why anybody thought he didn't want to be here?. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappa 0 Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 I've never heard anything else tbh Craig. I don't know why anybody thought he didn't want to be here?. People talking about his body language, form .... yada yada yada. Between twitter and forum banter it's like Chinese bloody whispers. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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