buster. 4,808 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 (edited) We sure have agents trying to sell their players knocking on our door as well, so that pendulum does not swing one way. Likewise, people should not forget that there are not only thousands of players - some talented and many more not - out there, but also hundreds of teams looking for them. Having scouts or informers out there sure helps finding the gems out there, but we should not be under any illusion that having them will semi-automatically mean that we will find and get them. As for the topic as such, the information generation seems to be getting restless again. Folks, Ally has his targets line up for this half-season. Any DoF or whatnot coming in will have at least 6 months to start doing any scouting job or building up connections (unless he's already in possession of them). A week or even a month without any visible action won't matter. It could well be that e.g. Nerlinger is doing a job right now elsewhere or is simply on holiday. Real life does that to people. Graham Wallace: Day 229 229 days = 7.63 months Scouts: No Spin: Yes Bonus: Yes -------------------------------------------------------------- ps. In a strange kind of way DB mirrors how the board operate. He puts forward his interpretation and then 'ignores' those he may find 'awkward'. Edited July 5, 2014 by buster. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilledbear 16 Posted July 5, 2014 Author Share Posted July 5, 2014 For Ally to say he talked with Wallace and it was not mentioned, then talk with journalists about it is just crazy. No wonder we get taken to the cleaners. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rangersitis 0 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Graham Wallace: Day 229 229 days = 7.63 months Scouts: No Spin: Yes Bonus: Yes -------------------------------------------------------------- ps. In a strange kind of way DB mirrors how the board operate. He puts forward his interpretation and then 'ignores' those he may find 'awkward'. Charles Green stated that Neil Murray would not be replaced on a like for like basis because of 'what we now envisage for that role'. Looks like everything is still running to plan. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 3,246 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 @Time4change ... I ignore people not always because I disagree with them, but because the way they talk to other people, about other people's opinion, or about the club and its employees. And no, I won't debate this with you. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buster. 4,808 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Charles Green stated that Neil Murray would not be replaced on a like for like basis because of 'what we now envisage for that role'. Looks like everything is still running to plan. This was done around the sametime as the head maintainance man at Ibrox was sacked or paid off. What links them is that both had input into financial outgoings over and above their own salary. One was simply cut, the other needed someone who was 'onside' or/and 'complicit'. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the gunslinger 3,366 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Doesn't one of Greens pals have the contract for stadium maintenance now. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buster. 4,808 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Doesn't one of Greens pals have the contract for stadium maintenance now. Can't remember who it was exactly but it was obviously going to be a Green/Blue Pitch friendly appointment. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the gunslinger 3,366 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 ALLY McCOIST has admitted he’s in the dark over Christian Nerlinger being lined up as chief football operations officer at Rangers. And the Ibrox boss wants clarity on what that new role would entail as he still doesn’t know if he can bring in someone else to head up the club’s scouting network. Chief executive Graham Wallace claimed an operations officer was needed in his 120-day business review back in April. And former Gers midfielder Nerlinger is said to be on the radar, having held a similar position at European giants Bayern Munich. But when asked about Nerlinger, McCoist said: “I haven’t heard anything regarding that. I spoke with Graham on Wednesday and nothing has been said about Nerlinger or any director of football so I don’t know anything about it. “I would expect to know something but it has gone quiet. I don’t know what has happened. My priority is to win the league but in terms of infrastructure we desperately need a chief scout. In an ideal world Graham and I would sit down but I don’t know what the plans are with the chief football officer. “I don’t know whether that would be his department in terms of scouting. “Do I have someone in mind? Absolutely. But let’s be honest – there is a financial aspect as well. “We need somebody to scout talent. Whether that is the chief football officer’s gig or the chief scout’s gig is up for debate. But if we want to get back to a top standard in Scotland and hopefully get back into European football we need to have people assessing players.” McCoist has snapped up Darren McGregor, Kris Boyd and Kenny Miller so far this summer. But he also wants to land former Hearts stopper Marius Zaliukas and Cardiff midfielder Don Cowie. The Ibrox boss said: “Marius has trained with us after being released by Leeds and we are going to have a chat. I think there’s still a few quid knocking about in that budget and that will be put to the test in the next week or so.” All of Rangers’ summer targets are tried and tested in the Scottish top flight and McCoist claims in the absence of a proper scouting department he is left with no option but to go for players he knows well. He pointed to Sporting Lisbon’s capture of Dundee United kid Ryan Gauld as an example of clubs casting their net wide and admitted Rangers are “light years” away from being able to work like that. He said: “Ian Durrant, Kenny McDowall and myself watch French football, Dutch football, absolutely everything on TV. But we can’t go to watch players unless they are in Scotland because of the situation the club is in. “That is the beauty of having a scouting department. If you have scouts they can go and watch games, they can recommend players and then you can go and look at them. “At this moment you are actually just watching games off videos. It is not ideal. “I met Peter Houston about four weeks ago (when he was scouting for Celtic) at the airport and said: ‘Where have you been?’ He said: ‘Watching six games.’ “Our best opportunity is to watch on the telly. If you have a chief scout and a department, you have the potential to do a Sporting Lisbon. “You can get a boy at 18, 19 and say: ‘Right, it looks like we are not going to play you for 18 months but we are going to develop you’. “That is the ideal world. We are light years away from that.” 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 3,246 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 On a sidenote ... who pays these scouts and their expenses? How far reaching are the scouting departments of other Scottish teams - if they actually have one. Do they rely on former foreign players to have a look at people from their country? Are some of our former players willing to do that (and for how much)? It appears that we can - right now - not spend that much money in various fields of the business. Whether doing this with Nerlinger and others in the future remains to be seen. It is a touch strange that Wallace and McCoist haven't spoken about the DoF role, but at times you think that Ally is waiting till the boss brings this (or other stuff) up instead of asking the question himself. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rangersitis 0 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 On a sidenote ... who pays these scouts and their expenses? How far reaching are the scouting departments of other Scottish teams - if they actually have one. Do they rely on former foreign players to have a look at people from their country? Are some of our former players willing to do that (and for how much)? It appears that we can - right now - not spend that much money in various fields of the business. Whether doing this with Nerlinger and others in the future remains to be seen. It is a touch strange that Wallace and McCoist haven't spoken about the DoF role, but at times you think that Ally is waiting till the boss brings this (or other stuff) up instead of asking the question himself. McCoist presented Wallace with a scouting blueprint in mid-February. Five months later and still there is nothing new in place. Why can't the funding for it come out of the £5m of investment which is available from existing investors and can be accessed 'at the press of a button'? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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