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SC - I don't think promotion this year is a given nor do I think we should even bother having aspirations to win the SPL any time soon.

 

I will say though that we are bloody fortunate that Celtic are at their worst in my lifetime.

 

I think quite cleverly though they have sold off all their assets and are stockpiling cash. They will be ready to spend as soon as they get any credible opposition, which will probably be....never.

 

Though they have shot themselves in the foot a bit because they now have a squad not fit for Europe at any level.

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If King comes in and starts spending amounts which are unsustainable in the long run, we will end up back at square one in a few years time. I would much prefer that any cash injection went straight to scouting and youth development.

 

I am not hopeful.

 

'If King comes in' ......sorry stopped reading after that.

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Simonsen

Miller

Boyd

McCulloch

McGregor

Foster

Daly

Black

Smith

Faure

McAusland

Mohsni

Gasparotto

 

All out of contract at the end of the season so they either need to be replaced or enter into discussions about extensions, no doubt even more lucrative than now.

 

Always thought there was something strange about this, why would anybody sanction contracts where so many end at the same time?

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Agree with you there, but unless their thinking is we will not be here when it happens, then it will come back and bite them.

 

Perhaps, as Merlin informed us, there will be a £50m injection of cash. More likely to be a scorched earth policy as they withdraw.

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Supercooper, the answer to your question (plugging financial shortfalls in income v expenditure) is undoubtedly selling players.

For Rangers to be sustainable, the target should be selling a player every season or so to England.

Two routes here- the Dundee United approach of developing youngsters and selling them, or celtic's, of buying european potential and selling them at a profit.

Ajax for example, have quotas of youth player promotion to the first team squad they are expected to meet every year, and also take punts with great success on the likes of Suarez.

The sale of Alan Hutton is your template. Eight million raised from a youth player. Do this once every two years with a 25% sell on clause and bob's your uncle.

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Supercooper, the answer to your question (plugging financial shortfalls in income v expenditure) is undoubtedly selling players.

For Rangers to be sustainable, the target should be selling a player every season or so to England.

Two routes here- the Dundee United approach of developing youngsters and selling them, or celtic's, of buying european potential and selling them at a profit.

Ajax for example, have quotas of youth player promotion to the first team squad they are expected to meet every year, and also take punts with great success on the likes of Suarez.

The sale of Alan Hutton is your template. Eight million raised from a youth player. Do this once every two years with a 25% sell on clause and bob's your uncle.

 

But that's not sustainable mate, it's not guaranteed income. Certainly not with our football infrastructure anyway but i do agree with it in principle though like European revenue should always be seen as an added bonus to revenue.

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Supercooper, the answer to your question (plugging financial shortfalls in income v expenditure) is undoubtedly selling players.

For Rangers to be sustainable, the target should be selling a player every season or so to England.

Two routes here- the Dundee United approach of developing youngsters and selling them, or celtic's, of buying european potential and selling them at a profit.

Ajax for example, have quotas of youth player promotion to the first team squad they are expected to meet every year, and also take punts with great success on the likes of Suarez.

The sale of Alan Hutton is your template. Eight million raised from a youth player. Do this once every two years with a 25% sell on clause and bob's your uncle.

 

That is all fine and well. A more pragmatic look at it might reveal that the likes of ICT and the Arabs simply have to check out youth players all over the country or buy up any talent they spot in the lower leagues (which we fail to do too) at low prices (much to the chagrin of those low key teams) as they cannot afford to do better. They likewise will have to play these people time and again as they have not that many options on their roster either. So over the course of the years they will "by default" find some real talent out there - whether they developed it themselves or not. Talent they can either offer to those able to afford it in Scotland or sell them to England. Only in recent years have transfer fees exploded and essentially just one club has so far gained from that. We had our Boumsongs, Cuellars, Wilsons and Huttons too. The tupe affair robbed the club of millions of pounds too, but that is another topic. Yet, what people do like to overlook is a) the mass of players out there at these teams who are at best "SPL" quality for a few years at b) mediocre teams who c) don't do much over the years in terms of silverware or other tangible success. Every now and then you get a club that assembles a crop of players able to challenge for this or that trophy, only to be dissected the summer afterwards. Lots of these players will vanish into the doldrums of the Scottish game though. IMHO it is not the case that the Scottish game is littered with talent that needs to be plucked and reared to be sold.

 

The other thing is that you actually have to have talent in the first place before you can spot it. Whether that talent wants to come to us and stay with us is another point. People will sure mention Telfer here, but that is just one case with half a dozen variables clinging to it. Right now the club is doing these football camps in the US of A and probably scan the market that is over there ... more useful than trying to test their luck in Europe where hundreds of other clubs are on the hunt too.

 

What would do is to actually build up a partnership or two with a half-decent European or even US club, where our youngsters can be loaned or send to to gain more experience and a different type of coaching. right now that seems a bit utopian, but once our off-field drama has finished, this is something that should be pursued ... alongside looking for home-grown talent that can be improved at Auchenhowie.

 

That aside, any transfer out should have a sell-on clause, even down to 1%. (Somesuch earned Hansa Rostock 300k after Tony Kroos went from Bayern to Real ...)

 

NB: Stephen Dobbie ... anyone remember him? He's now at EPL new boys Crystal Palace after some years in the wilderness.

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