The Winter 2019/20 Transfer Window Rumours and Deals - Thread

[RANGERRAB 3,254]

1 hour ago, ranger_syntax said:

If this guy plays a similar game to Morelos then get him in.

 

Sadly Defoe offers much less than Morelos.

Morelos can play the lone striker role. Defoe isn’t anywhere near as effective in that role. He’s more suited to a 4-4-2 or 3-5-2 where he’s got a target man beside him

[der Berliner 3,231]

11 hours ago, RANGERRAB said:

Morelos can play the lone striker role. Defoe isn’t anywhere near as effective in that role. He’s more suited to a 4-4-2 or 3-5-2 where he’s got a target man beside him

... though you wish at times we`d drop the 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 and go with two strikers against the brickwall brigade, who rarely threatens. Far to often the ball runs loose around the penalty spot or in front of goals and no McCoist-like predator in sight. Holt ran into that space a few years back quite often, Arfield and Aribo as attacking MF less so. The system is also the reason why the likes of Waghorn, Garner, Cummings and even Herrera never got going. And IMHO, it was not exactlythe case of players not adapting to the tactics, but more of the tactics not being effective in certain games ... essentially 9 out of 11. Just MHO, of course. This season, we have better quality folk, but we still need some fine-tuning.

[ranger_syntax 3,761]

22 minutes ago, der Berliner said:

... though you wish at times we`d drop the 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 and go with two strikers against the brickwall brigade, who rarely threatens. Far to often the ball runs loose around the penalty spot or in front of goals and no McCoist-like predator in sight. Holt ran into that space a few years back quite often, Arfield and Aribo as attacking MF less so. The system is also the reason why the likes of Waghorn, Garner, Cummings and even Herrera never got going. And IMHO, it was not exactlythe case of players not adapting to the tactics, but more of the tactics not being effective in certain games ... essentially 9 out of 11. Just MHO, of course. This season, we have better quality folk, but we still need some fine-tuning.

Not really.

 

Two of those players are rubbish.

 

One had problems off of the pitch and the other is rather ordinary.  

[RANGERRAB 3,254]

1 hour ago, der Berliner said:

... though you wish at times we`d drop the 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 and go with two strikers against the brickwall brigade, who rarely threatens. Far to often the ball runs loose around the penalty spot or in front of goals and no McCoist-like predator in sight. Holt ran into that space a few years back quite often, Arfield and Aribo as attacking MF less so. The system is also the reason why the likes of Waghorn, Garner, Cummings and even Herrera never got going. And IMHO, it was not exactlythe case of players not adapting to the tactics, but more of the tactics not being effective in certain games ... essentially 9 out of 11. Just MHO, of course. This season, we have better quality folk, but we still need some fine-tuning.

It’s horses for courses in my opinion. Against ‘park the bus’ teams I think we should try & use two strikers. 

If,however, we are going to use only one striker then Morelos is by far the best option 

[der Berliner 3,231]

Sky now twitters that Andy King has had his loan deal terminated and is going back to Leicester.

[MacK1950 2,230]

2 hours ago, der Berliner said:

Sky now twitters that Andy King has had his loan deal terminated and is going back to Leicester.

Good luck to him he came to us at wrong time.

[JFK-1 1,666]

7 hours ago, RANGERRAB said:

It’s horses for courses in my opinion. Against ‘park the bus’ teams I think we should try & use two strikers. 

If,however, we are going to use only one striker then Morelos is by far the best option 

I would like to see it at least tried sometime. And let's face it. They're pretty much all ‘park the bus’ teams even including the yahoos to some degree when they came to Ibrox. I can only think the manger is of the opinion that taking a component out to accommodate another striker somehow unsettles the entire system.

And at the end of the day who are we to complain? He has this team playing some remarkable football.

[BEARGER 1,829]

Jimmy McCann Ex agent saying Rangers have asked Newcastle about short term loan for Dwight Gayle.

[JFK-1 1,666]

13 minutes ago, BEARGER said:

Jimmy McCann Ex agent saying Rangers have asked Newcastle about short term loan for Dwight Gayle.

Steve Bruce Bruce is looking to offload Newcastle outcasts Ki Sung-Yueng and Yoshinari Muto in the New Year to make room for new signings.

 

And the Toon chief will listen to offers for Dwight Gayle though he's unlikely to allow the striker to go out on loan.

[MacK1950 2,230]

shouldn't be dealing with Ashey's club in any way or form