The Rangers Summer 2025 Transfer Rumours and Deals - Thread

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1 minute ago, Rousseau said:

You just used the term culture yourself! 'Culture of failure', which is what I used, too, a few posts above. 

I'm using shit n shite, in place of tomato/tomatoe. It's so so. 

 

Essentially they're the same thing. 

 

You can't actually coach or train those things. 

 

You either have winners, or you've signed a lot of scared shite and need to get rid.

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1 minute ago, L72 said:

I'm using shit n shite, in place of tomato/tomatoe. It's so so. 

 

Essentially they're the same thing. 

 

You can't actually coach or train those things. 

 

You either have winners, or you've signed a lot of scared shite and need to get rid.

Of course you can't. 

 

But you still need to put in place the building blocks, like simply looking at the character of the players we're signing. 

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10 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

Footballing culture and footballing philosophy are different things. 

Well they are different words, but they are both just white noise in footballing terms.

Players either play they way they are asked or they don't.

Passing out from back, horseshoe of doom, keeping possession

Or we can have low blocks, parked busses and 10 men behind the ball.

Outwith that. We can have long balls and whatever other formations and styles teams use, it's not new, it's not culture, and the worse one winning culture, some of our players need bottle. Not these nonsense buzzwords.

 

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Let's just rip up the football department and bring back Barry. He'll tell them all some home truths and let them get stuck in. 

 

That'll get us back to the top... 

 

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12 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said:

I think that's what bugs me most about it.  Bad enough having to tolerate parrots and their buzzwords for 35 hours a week without it creeping into everything else.  

 

Orwell: "Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent."

Let's touch base or circle round on this.  🤢🤢🤢🤢💩💩💩☠️☠️☠️☠️

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3 minutes ago, blueflag said:

Players either play they way they are asked or they don't.

 

Like implementing a manager's style, the very thing you just said is nonsense?

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3 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

Let's just rip up the football department and bring back Barry. He'll tell them all some home truths and let them get stuck in. 

 

That'll get us back to the top... 

Tired: get back to the top without Baz

 

Inspired: Baz hounds out the V.L.s

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5 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

Let's just rip up the football department and bring back Barry. He'll tell them all some home truths and let them get stuck in. 

 

That'll get us back to the top... 

 

You're confusing simplifying football with shouty shouty manager. 

 

You said it yourself, sign the right players. 

 

You want to install a philosophy? Sign players that suit that, don't try and shoehorn.

 

Walter Smith, Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho have all said at one point or another philosophy is essentially bollox.

 

You have to build a team in that image, not sign players and try to impose that image on them.

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3 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

Like implementing a manager's style, the very thing you just said is nonsense?

Style? So, is that the your definition of culture here? 

I said style, you said the buzzwords of culture and philosophy 

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Participation medals and money have a lot to answer for imo.