plymouthranger

They are like us under Beale/Gio, really struggling to break down sides that just sit in, especially at home

Strange one, Ross Wilson was always decent at getting good deals for players when we decided to sell them. His flaws were he couldn’t pick a good player and didn’t force sales when players were winding down their deals e.g. Morelos and Kent. But we did very well to get £40million plus add ons for Patterson, Bassey and Aribo

Has to be shogun shogizzle

As someone who played Ice Hockey many moons ago at youth level for Ayr, I can’t believe the guy is getting charged for this. It’s so easy when skating at speed to lose control and your skate ride up. Yes it looks like an unusual motion when viewed, but I’ve seen some horrendous tackles with intent go unpunished that luckily didn’t injure the opponent as badly as this. Neck guards should’ve been brought in years ago. I used to wear a foam shower cap around my neck, because my coaches knew the risks and didn’t want any possible neck injuries when a squad of under 12s were playing. You couldn’t buy neck guards, so people made do with alternatives. Some players even worse face cages incase the puck hit them, I’ve seen first hand someone take a shot in a training drill after the whistle and it knock someone’s teeth out. Really hope the bloke doesn’t get done for it. It’s a horrible incident and one that could and should’ve been prevented long before now.

It is worrying they can make £40million in profit and we struggle to make any. Either Desmond’s taking a lot out of the club, or they’re going to have some serious cash in the bank, even when legal payouts etc happen. Does make you worry that any time we win the title, they can go and outspend us to tip things back in their favour. We need to box clever and get this player trading model working, or consistently quality for CL, or both.

Agreed, it’s no surprise almost all his Rangers memorable games came in European matches. He’s still decent player domestically for goals and assists, but he was a man down for the first half of the 21/22 season before his injury.

Should be fine, the bottom 4 are dogshit and at least it’s happened early on in the season.

Lol it’s a good question, but no. I’d rather we either try and get more from Lammers (as we’re stuck with him), or we use any funds from selling/loaning him on someone else. We know what we get from Kent and it’s not good enough domestically. We suspect we know what we’ll get from Lammers and it’s not good enough domestically. But we don’t know that for certain (yet)

That’s fucking hilarious, what an absolute shambles. Downed tools with Alfredo for the last 12 months with us and he’ll be playing at Home Park in Jan and Morelos in the Brazilian 2nd division. Fucking clowns.

Would you say 1 goal in 9 games is a good return from our main wide threat? Yes he got a handful of assists, but 3 of those were from penalties if I recall correctly. Whilst that’s good that he won those, let’s not pretend he was scoring and assisting loads and running sides ragged. Our main attacking threat post Xmas in that campaign, came from Tav.

If he’d been on fire in Turkey but face didn’t fit, then maybe you could justify it. But he hasn’t kicked a ball domestically since May 2021, which is 2 and a half years ago. He was atrocious for us under Gio domestically and Beale, I doubt he’ll ever hit consistent form again like in the 55 season. This “form” he had in the Europa league run is a bit overhyped, he got 1 goal and 5 assists in 13 games that campaign. Yes the assists look good, but barring Dortmund he didn’t run anyone ragged and the penalty assist against Red Star was fortuitous at best. Good player on his day, but his days are few and far between. Our rivals have players who score 10-15 goals a season domestically in his position (and those players aren’t even that good), Kent’s return of 5 goals in his last 60 domestic league games, is woeful and not the level we require or should be aspiring to.

Could be, they’ve signed a lot of players from smaller leagues/far East where wages are low. We’ve signed players from leagues with high wage averages such as the Dutch, Belgian, England etc.

Complicated, by the time you’ve taken all the staffing costs in house, your carrying a lot more risk for little extra

Club are very happy with Castore. Making more money from retail than ever previously, Castore value is as their biggest account (their losing Newcastle to Adidas shortly which is the only football team that comes close in terms of sales), and pay on time.

Yes, and the Bassey and Aribo sales (but not anything from the Europa run that season). Bascially we made a small profit (under £500k), despite CL football and bringing in a record fee. The reason why we made such a small profit, is because we had to pay off Gio and his team, hire Beale, sign all the dross from summer 2022 and no European football post/Xmas. Unless we go deep into Europe (e.g. Semi finals in Europa or Conference league), I’d expect us to run at a slight (e.g. under £5million) loss this coming year because of lack of CL money (although reaching the play off round did help). We brought in circa £10million by selling Sakala, Kamara and Colak, but spent more than that on the incoming players from summer 2023. Hence why Bennett is referencing that we need to make sure the player trading model is delivering consistently, he can see that despite moving a decent chunk of wages from the books, we’ve brought just as much onto them with some questionable quality in the likes of Lammers, Dessers, Matondo, Lawrence, Yilmaz etc.

Disgraceful we lost to them (both sides)

Last night was an odd one, I thought he did very well off the ball with his pressing, tackling and making space for our other forwards. On the ball, I can’t remember him doing anything

We were briefly linked to Haraslin under Gerrard when he first came in. Some player

What a difference a manager makes.

As a former goalkeeper (admittedly at a very low level), I can’t begin to explain how good he is. His positioning is ridiculous, not just for shot stopping but for crosses, intercepting through balls etc. Whilst he’s a big lad, he times everything in the air to perfection (which is far more difficult than it looks). Then you throw in his shot stopping with both hands, reaction saves etc. Most goalies are good at 1 or at best 2 of the above and then get by on the rest. The best can do the lot and whilst Jacks not in that world class bracket, we couldn’t have got a more rounded GK for 3-4x our budget for him. If you could combine those elite level saves McGregor/Goram was capable of with Butlands base on the rest, you’re genuinely looking at one of the best British keepers ever.

He’s worse than James Beattie was, and that’s saying something. Genuinely think he might be worse than Ostenstadt, who is probably the worst forward I’ve seen in a Rangers jersey. Cant believe we paid over £4million for this clown.

It’s easier for French clubs to attract players because of the league they play in. Means we often have to overpay for players or can’t attract better young talent. What’s inexcusable is teams like Sparta/Slavia/Malmo being better than us when their leagues are worse and they spend 3-4x less a year than us

Yeah that’s a fucking mental thing to say. I was brought in as an external consultant for a client in my line of work (workplace strategy), we proposed a solution that we felt was the best way to solve the clients problems, but their CFO went a different route. That’s fine, take the pay cheque, keep quiet and move on. Coming out after a decision has been made, publicly saying you backed a different route and then still remaining on the books, is fucking madness and it comes across as someone who thinks they know it all. Sadly Souness is a dinosaur for modern football, he was as a manager 20 years ago and he’s done nothing since barring punditry. We shouldn’t be relying on him in any capacity…

Roofes scored 1 goal this season, his records worse than Dessers

Fuck me that bench is as bad as I’ve ever seen for a European game.