Leon King in Rangers contract snub...

[alexscottislegend 2,059]

I think this could be bad news. Gilmour would have been in our first team by now. King may have to wait years to get a sniff at Man C. or L'pool. We must have advisers who can ram home the point that it's not always about money.

[Gonzo79 13,609]

6 minutes ago, alexscottislegend said:

We must have advisers who can ram home the point that it's not always about money.

Impossible to advise a 16 year old and his family he should stay at Rangers when Chelsea or Liverpool are offering the lad £8k more a week.

[Bill 13,717]

Rangers is in an almost impossible situation with these young players. Are we prepared to pay someone like Gilmour or King more than some of our established first team squad? I don’t think so. It’s the old Jim McLean situation. 

[ranger_syntax 3,767]

The problem is the loan system.

 

Restrict the number of players that a club can loan out and then youth development would look quite different.

[craig 5,195]

22 hours ago, alexscottislegend said:

I think this could be bad news. Gilmour would have been in our first team by now. King may have to wait years to get a sniff at Man C. or L'pool. We must have advisers who can ram home the point that it's not always about money.

And Gilmour is making first team appearances for Chelsea now - what’s your point again ?

[Bill 13,717]

The Gilmour/King situation is a regret but it's also just a fact of life. It's a regret that Rangers can't go out and buy Cristiano Ronaldo in January but that's also a fact of life. If you have the money, you can .... if you don't then you can't. When was it ever different?

[compo 6,132]

1 hour ago, Bill said:

The Gilmour/King situation is a regret but it's also just a fact of life. It's a regret that Rangers can't go out and buy Cristiano Ronaldo in January but that's also a fact of life. If you have the money, you can .... if you don't then you can't. When was it ever different?

Maybe if and when the club gets back to winning trophies some of these bright young prospects might think twice about going south  .

[Uilleam 5,422]

2 hours ago, craig said:

And Gilmour is making first team appearances for Chelsea now - what’s your point again ?

Gilmour is a bad example, or, rather, one of the exceptions. Chelsea, and other clubs, have -literally- dozens of young players out on loan, the vast majority of whom will never make the first team. They are farmed out (there is no other expression) to -sometimes many- other sides,  who train, coach, and develop them, and Chelsea, et al. sell them on, at a profit, the players never having touched the walls of their parent clubs' 1st Team dressing rooms. 

 

[Uilleam 5,422]

21 hours ago, ranger_syntax said:

The problem is the loan system.

 

Restrict the number of players that a club can loan out and then youth development would look quite different.

I think that you are correct. Numbers of loanees in/out should be limited.

 

What should be proscribed, with possible exception of short term emergency cover, however, is loans to competitors within the same league. The provision in most, if not all, loan contracts that the loaned player may not play against his parent club is clearly  influence over, indeed direct interference in, the selection of the borrower's team. Even if this stricture was outlawed, there is plenty of potential for conflict of interest affecting the loaned player. 

 

 

 

 

[Bill 13,717]

39 minutes ago, Uilleam said:

I think that you are correct. Numbers of loanees in/out should be limited.

 

What should be proscribed, with possible exception of short term emergency cover, however, is loans to competitors within the same league. The provision in most, if not all, loan contracts that the loaned player may not play against his parent club is clearly  influence over, indeed direct interference in, the selection of the borrower's team. Even if this stricture was outlawed, there is plenty of potential for conflict of interest affecting the loaned player. 

I can't see that ever happening when the most successful and influential clubs benefit from the current system. The objective for Rangers is to be one of the clubs that use the present system in its own interests.