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    David Healy

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

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    http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11781_4759739,00.html

    David Healy's agent insists his client is not clamouring for a New Year departure from Sunderland.

    The Black Cats striker has been strongly linked with a move to SPL giants Rangers.

    He has failed to start a single Premier League game for the North East outfit since joining them from Fulham at the start of the season.

    Reports had suggested that Gers boss Walter Smith was lining up the Northern Ireland international as a possible replacement for Kris Boyd, who is poised to join Birmingham.

    However, Healy's representative Stephen Hughes claims there is no substance to those rumours.

    "I have heard nothing. We are not engineering anything," he said.

    "I spoke to Sunderland earlier this week and nothing was mentioned."

    Phew!!! :clap:

    DJ: Boyd backlash could end with Smith out at Ibrox

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

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    http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/displa...ut_at_ibrox.php

    I SAID yesterday that basically anyone is for sale at Rangers if the price is right - but I'm flabbergasted at the latest developments regarding the future of Kris Boyd.

    With 18 league games to go, the signal that this gives out is that Gers have already given up the ghost in terms of the title.

    There is no way that's good enough. Not in the eyes of a support who haven't celebrated a championship since 2005.

    If, as has been suggested, this is a sale taking place because the banks are putting pressure on the club and there is no European money this season, then the chairman and the manager have to come out and explain that.

    The least they can do is come out publicly and answer the questions that the Rangers fans have, because I have no doubt that they will be pig-sick at the club's top scorer being sold at this point in the campaign.

    The only way that the club can save any face in this whole sorry situation is if they already have someone lined up who can come in and take Boyd's place.

    But that is a mighty big risk to take. At the minute Boyd guarantees 20-25 goals a season - every season - and that kind of quality does not come cheaply.

    The fans will be up in arms about this. The club are five points off the pace of Celtic as it is - where would they be without Boyd and his goals this season? There is no-one else who can be relied upon to hit the back of the net as regularly as he does.

    I also think that the loss of Boyd puts manager Walter Smith under a significant bit of pressure.

    He has been at the club for two seasons now and he knows that he really has to win the league this year.

    Failure to do that could well cost him his position and losing your top scorer is going to make that job 10 times harder.

    And let's be honest, too. Birmingham can double Boyd's wages but they are not the right club for him, in my opinion.

    It's not as if it is an ambitious move into the Premier League.

    It is a move to a Championship side and even if they do win promotion this season, next term they will spend the campaign fighting for their lives.

    Is that really better than what Rangers can offer?

    I have no doubt that there will be uproar at this development because fans will really struggle to get their heads around it.

    The danger for the club is that supporters will vote with their feet. That might not have too much of an effect at Ibrox at this stage when the money is already in from the season books, but it could made a helluva difference in the summer when the time comes around for renewals.

    Fingers crossed!! :angry2:

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