Transfer Rumours and Deals - Winter Window 2016/17

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Blues eye Ibrox youngster Chelsea are keeping tabs on 15-year-old Rangers kid Billy Gilmour

 

The Premier League giants are looking to steal a march on other interested clubs in the Gers starlet

 

CHELSEA are set to step up their interest in Rangers kid Billy Gilmour.

 

SunSport understands the Blues see the 15-year-old playmaker as a star of the future.

 

FIFA rules prohibit them making a move until the Ayrshire lad turns 16 next June.

 

But it’s thought Chelsea hope to steal a march on other interested clubs.

 

Scouts from Bayern Munich, Barcelona and a clutch of English clubs watched Gilmour impress for Scotland in this year’s Victory Shield.

 

FIFA rules mean any club could land Gilmour for as little as £100,000 in cross-border compensation.

 

If these other big name clubs are sniffing around, they obviously see potential in lad. Therefore, I would like to think that the club are doing all they can to "educate" him that at this stage of his career, there are more important things than money ie. Game time, and that if he stays @ RFC, he is more likely to get that.

[calscot 0]

If these other big name clubs are sniffing around, they obviously see potential in lad. Therefore, I would like to think that the club are doing all they can to "educate" him that at this stage of his career, there are more important things than money ie. Game time, and that if he stays @ RFC, he is more likely to get that.

 

That may be the future strategy of our current manager, but so far, in 1.5 seasons, his MO has been to not play our own teenagers. From past experience, his best chance of first team football would be a loan - which he can do from any club.

 

In fact, his best chance to play for us seems to be to sign for Chelsea and then come to us on loan!

[JFK-1 1,675]

Presuming anything we bring in during the January window will be better than anything we currently have in the relevant position at least one who has become accustomed to being in the starting 11 is going to be disappointed. Who is that going to be? There has been talk of a "creative midfielder' so who will drop down the pecking order if that's the case?

 

I actually expect more than one signing in this window and if we can maintain our current form and results starting with an away win at Hamilton which is a difficult place to go then strengthen the team in January I will feel confident we will ultimately run away with second place laving a comfortable gap behind us.

 

Actually despite all the early season troubles I was always confident that would be the minimum end result. January strengthening should make us an outfit too formidable for almost anybody in that league. We already have quality players like Forrester, Waghorn, and O'Halloran struggling to get a game. Nothing currently behind us can compete with that bench far less an even stronger bench.

 

And a strong bench is an important factor. Having the ability to launch a potent weapon from the bench in a match we're struggling to kill off is a luxury very few have. Slowly but surely we're getting there.

[Frankie 8,157]

Well, Miller has been playing a bit deeper at times so you'd imagine he's the man most likely to make way.

 

IMO it's cover/competition for Halliday we need though.

Edited December 16, 2016 by Frankie

[JFK-1 1,675]

Well, Miller has been playing a bit deeper at times so you'd imagine he's the man most likely to make way.

 

IMO it's cover/competition for Halliday we need though.

 

So if a player who fills an equivalent role to that Halliday plays is signed he makes way given that the strategy is supposed to be don't sign anything unless it's better than that you already have. And doesn't Rossiter fill that role? A Rossiter who the manager said last week was just 10 days away from a return.

[Norris Cole 0]

If these other big name clubs are sniffing around, they obviously see potential in lad. Therefore, I would like to think that the club are doing all they can to "educate" him that at this stage of his career, there are more important things than money ie. Game time, and that if he stays @ RFC, he is more likely to get that.

 

That, and roll off the hundreds of Scottish players who have left too early in search of the limelight. Danny Wilson going to Liverpool being the first to come to mind.

[pete 2,499]

QPR back for Clint Hill Queens Park Rangers are ready to offer Clint Hill a return to Loftus Road only six months after he left the London club to join Rangers. Hill has been one of the more consistent performers in Mark Warburton’s side this season but is out of contract at the end of the season. (Daily Record)

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QPR back for Clint Hill Queens Park Rangers are ready to offer Clint Hill a return to Loftus Road only six months after he left the London club to join Rangers. Hill has been one of the more consistent performers in Mark Warburton’s side this season but is out of contract at the end of the season. (Daily Record)

 

That actually says quite a bit about Hill's form of late.

[JFK-1 1,675]

Well he certainly wont be going in January. Or at least you would think not.

[pete 2,499]

Get a couple of hundred thousand for him and bring in John Terry for 6mths.