The Summer 2022 Rangers Transfer Window Rumours and Deals - Thread

[Gonzo79 13,555]

This thread's going well, I see.  

[ian1964 10,390]

 

[ranger_syntax 3,751]

6 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said:

This thread's going well, I see.  

Better than I imagined when it started.

 

Feels like there is so much more to come.

[lenny3k 500]

33 minutes ago, ian1964 said:

 

I'm enjoying the academy hoovering up talent though...

 

[Malangsob 1,190]

57 minutes ago, buster. said:

If we don't recruit well just now, we aren't winning the title.

That's unsubstantiated, as one cannot predict future trends.

 

The dependent and independent variables affecting season trajectory are myriad.

 

What we know is this squad, it its current state have reached heights far exceeding the rhats.

 

5 points...two games...and we would have raised 56.

 

See it for what it is...not what your fear tells you it is. 

 

 

58 minutes ago, buster. said:

If they get 2x CL money, we continue to EL it....and we continue to lag miles behind their player trading numbers, then we'll be playing catch-up from a long way back.

 

Rangers have already proven that CL money is not required to achieve the heights of continental success.

 

Still don't believe your lying eyes?

 

Case Study;

 

Everton.

 

https://www.toffeeweb.com/season/21-22/news/41231.html

 

 

 

 

[Rousseau 9,311]

28 minutes ago, lenny3k said:

I'm enjoying the academy hoovering up talent though...

It's actually brilliant to see. It's just what we want. 

 

Hopefully we can see them progress into the first team over the next few years - or get sold for megabucks. 

[Bill 13,717]

1 minute ago, Rousseau said:

It's actually brilliant to see. It's just what we want. 

 

Hopefully we can see them progress into the first team over the next few years - or get sold for megabucks. 

There certainly seems to have been some kind of sea change in recruitment policy. 

[stewarty 1,876]

2 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

It's actually brilliant to see. It's just what we want. 

 

Hopefully we can see them progress into the first team over the next few years - or get sold for megabucks. 

We should always be aiming to hoover up the best young talent we can. 

 

The recent flurry is both encouraging in that we are able to sell the benefits of coming to us to develop their career (and for the club, hopefully profiting from their ability/sale down the line), but also a concern that the Auchenhowie conveyor belt seems to have missed a few straps in that we have big gaps to in our U16-18 ages that have needed to be filled.  

 

Guys like @elfideldo are much better placed to comment though.

[craig 5,195]

40 minutes ago, Malangsob said:

That's unsubstantiated, as one cannot predict future trends.

 

The dependent and independent variables affecting season trajectory are myriad.

 

What we know is this squad, it its current state have reached heights far exceeding the rhats.

 

5 points...two games...and we would have raised 56.

 

See it for what it is...not what your fear tells you it is. 

 

 

 

Rangers have already proven that CL money is not required to achieve the heights of continental success.

 

Still don't believe your lying eyes?

 

Case Study;

 

Everton.

 

https://www.toffeeweb.com/season/21-22/news/41231.html

 

 

 

 

Actually one game mate.  Had we got, and converted, the two stonewall penalties we were denied against Celtic at Ibrox in March we would have won the league.

 

Completely agree about some of the histrionics in here.  Should we strengthen ?  Yes.  Will we lose the league if we don't ?  Absolutely zero guarantee that happens if we keep this squad together.

 

Some observations with respect to last season and our squad :

 

1.  We were still very close to winning the league (see point above)

2.  Our squad quite possibly were complacent last season - unacceptable, but understandable given the prior season invincible league campaign

3.  Celtic benefitted more than us, by far, with "honest mistake" officiating.

 

Aside from the 2 stonewall penalties that would have won us the league you can count a bunch of times they got a large slice of the "benefit of the doubt"

1.  They scored an offside goal against Hearts to turn 1 point into 3

2.  They scored another offside goal against Hearts that turned 1 point into 3.

3.  They should have had a penalty given against them in the last minute at home to Livingston which would have turned 3 points into 1. 

4.  Then we have the penalty we should have had at Ibrox against Dundee Utd when Sakala was pulled back, that would have turned 1 point into 3

5.  Then we have the draw at Tannadice when we were denied a stonewall penalty for handball which would have turned 1 point into 3

 

These are just off the top of my head and provide a 14 point swing (10 points for points 1 to 5 and 4 points from the OF game at Ibrox).

 

The suggestions that we are way behind them if we go with this squad is quite preposterous IMHO

 

[craig 5,195]

49 minutes ago, lenny3k said:

I'm enjoying the academy hoovering up talent though...

 

There's an alternative view to this though.... the talent they are hoovering up is because the 2006's that we had weren't good enough.  Only 6 have been offered contracts in the last couple of years apparently.  So hoovering up talent, whilst appreciated, appears to be because the players we had at that age group werent good enough