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4 hours ago, psb07158 said:
My youngest sister lives there as her other half has a really good construction job in eastern europe and their base is Prague.
Got racially abused as a local told her to go back to her own country, not realising that my sister, like me, is Scottish.
Czechs and Hungarians are fucking backward. Weirdly Poland and other countries like the baltics, which people often assume are worse, are far more tolerant and decent.
Not sure what it is in Central Europe, but they’re all a bit mad and isolated.
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35 minutes ago, The Specky Forum Organiser said:
Fuck them, absolute scum.
Imagine your greatest rivals racially abusing a player and deciding to back them, over seeing the incident as disgraceful and also the fault of a team you despise. Fucking madness
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Yeah Hagi sadly doesn’t fit into our side. He’s not athletic enough and Cantwell does his role much better.
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He speaks with real clarity, which Beale never did and Gio was too guarded to do so.
That should help us short term, as the players will have clear and concise instructions about what they need to do
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1 hour ago, The Specky Forum Organiser said:
Not one person who had watched him before in his career mentioned his passing ability or him coming deep when we were being linked with him, everyone was making him out to be similar to Morelos. All this stuff about linking play/passing in behind is 100% based off the Matondo goal.
Not really, I’ve just explained that we have family in Rotterdam and my post was based on that.
Put it this way, if he was similar to early days Morelos (playing off the shoulder), he’s fucking useless at it as he’s offside more than Sakala.
The problem we have is that hes a forward who does well in spurts, presses well (but we don’t do that as a team, so he wastes energy doing so), can drop deeper and play good passes but struggles against low blocks or when there’s an expectation for him to run in behind/into channels.
All the above are pretty difficult to put together into a striker that is useful in most games for Rangers.
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21 minutes ago, Iakona said:
For all Dessers faults this far; I think there’s a very strong element of Beale not having a clue how to utilise him.
We have seen glimpses of his ability to link up and play a pass in behind… but when he’s isolated or being asked to chase hopeless long balls in behind, he’s basically being set up for failure. It’s clearly not his strengths.
It wasn’t working and naturally Dessers confidence is shot because of it.
Whilst that still leaves major questions over his mental strength. He’s got another chance under Clement to show he can still offer us something.
We’ve got family members who live near Rotterdam and go to some of the games.
General consensus on Dessers is they loved him, but he blows hot and cold and his goal scoring tends to be in bursts (which to be fair, is how we’d describe Morelos over the period with us).
But your point above is bang on. Apparently in the Eredivise he struggled for Feijenoord in a lot of games, especially where teams sat in and limited the space for him. In Europe he excelled that season where he was able to drop deeper and use his passing to play balls in behind for runners/get onto cutbacks.
They all agree he’s useless at running into space behind and not the best when teams sit in against his side. You can see that across his career, scores loads in sides who are either lower half and set up to counter, or in European games where again things are more cagey.
Problem is, that doesn’t fit the profile of what a Rangers number 9 needs to do.
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On 11/10/2023 at 23:10, Jamie0202 said:
It isn't a great record but worth noting that that table only shows league goals. There's 35 goals missing between cup games and Europe. Agree that I don't think he'll make it here. Would love to be proven wrong.
Also, those stats really aren’t that bad considering they’re all in leagues better than ours.
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2 hours ago, ExiledWeegie123 said:
Do we think fitness can play a part in him looking so bad?
watching that video he closes down the keeper a few times and also runs away from defenders, he actually looked quite quick, not matondo quick but quick enough, but with us he looks slow and cumbersome. He was injured just before coming to us I'm sure and if you look at other players in our team who used to be ultra fit when Gerrard was here and regularly complete 120 minutes in europe then go again at the weekend, they dont look anywhere near as fit now. Did Beales coaching ruin fitness levels in the team and in turn make it hard for Dessers to get back upto speed after his injury? . Weve seen Tav go backward in fitness levels, Lundstram is another, but also players getting injured far easier.
clutching at straws with Dessers maybe but fitness levels do look much worse during and after Beales time here.That injury he picked up late last season at Cremonese has fucked him. Looks to have lost half a yard of pace and I imagine he’s playing through it, which isn’t helping him
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Not sure how we get so many injuries
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Have we created a single chance?
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He’s a fraud. I called it when we concede the 3rd against PSV because he shat the responsibility of marking de Jong.
Not a leader, has had 1 good season in 6 whilst at us.
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Just now, LaaRFC said:
When Beale was here at least I could try and delude myself that he was the only problem. An absolutely miserable performance and I’m genuinely in fear of going to play St Mirren at the weekend. What a mess.
They’ll beat us, above us in the league for a reason
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2 minutes ago, SkylineBlue said:
I dont know if I've ever hated a Rangers team before, but I genuinely hate this squad. I cant stand the fucking sight of them.
Serial losers
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Genuinely, you’d be better off sticking one of us up front than Dessers
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9 minutes ago, Fear no foe said:
Has any player apart from Cantwell actually said anything about his departure?
Probably a sign of how badly it’s gone. The players already here must be thinking what the fuck happened with recruitment, the guys brought in are probably thinking how the fuck did this squad make a Europa League final recently…
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6 minutes ago, stevemac said:
what players or managers have we been after that have gone to them though?
its just speculation.
Lol, the best managers go to the biggest leagues (unless the moneys stupid a la Saudi Arabia).
Unless the manager was born on the Copland road, no manager on earth is declining offers from teams in La Liga/Ligue Un to come to us.
The guy from AZ is an interesting one because you could argue the Dutch league is on the verge of overtaking France as the 5th league of Europe. If Ajax came in for him, I can’t see any possibility where he’d turn them down to manage us.
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28 minutes ago, ForeverAndEver said:
He’s managed in 2 countries and he wasn’t a success at Southampton at all
My mistake, but he adapted very well to the EPL and was one of the longest serving managers in the division by the time he was sacked.
Shows a lot more versatility. Has also been at sides who’ve won domestic titles (Bundesliga 2 with Ingolstadt, promotion with Aalen), plays very attack minded football, plus was very successful with RB Leipzig who generally are good at spotting talented managers.
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37 minutes ago, SIRB_72 said:
The only guy with a CV anything close to that would be Marcelino and he doesnt have any connection to Rangers personally or professionally.
26 years experience, 850 games at 45%, not managed a club quite like Liverpool but his last 5 jobs were Sevilla, Villarreal, Valencia, Athletic Bilbao and Marseille with varying degrees of success. Won the Copa del Rey with Valencia in 2019 and runner up twice with Bilbao in 20 & 21. Won a promotion to La Liga with Recreativo in 2006.
Sorry but I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it, we can’t be hiring someone who’s only managed in one country.
Marcelino looks great on paper, but he’s managed in Spain all his life and the only job abroad lasted a few months and he quit due to personal reasons (and it was at Marseille, which isn’t far geographically from Spain).
We need a manager who’s experienced in different cultures, because they’ve shown they can adapt to it and learn how to play against different sides. It’s why the chap from Alkmaar probably isn’t the way to go either.
Id much rather we go after a Hassenhuttl who has managed and been fairly successful in 3x countries, than someone who probably got homesick the first time he left Spain.
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11 minutes ago, Gman36 said:
Lampards an inferior Gerrard. We already tried that trick and got the best out of Gerrards early managerial career aura. Vastly diminishing returns from that now, considering Lampards been around a while now and not done as well as Gerrard.
Lampards a worse manager than Beale, which is quite difficult to achieve
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14 minutes ago, B1872 said:
Where we are as a club we are now a stepping stone to get to the EPL. With Jansen being interested maybe he sees us as a better chance to get to the EPL than directly from AZ. Apparently he's half British half Dutch as well.
He’s another project manager. Doing well at one club in one country, I really don’t see how it’s an upgrade.
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2 minutes ago, AberfeldyBlue said:
Simon Jordan says he would deffo say that Warnock could the job in his sleep
Tbf as an interim until the end of the season (if we could line someone next level up from summer), he’d probably be the best appointment we could make on a short-term basis.
Knows how to grind results, players love him, has a base up here, has won titles at most clubs he’s been with, isn’t going to be phased about needing to win on atrocious pitches in the middle of winter, the list goes on.
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2 minutes ago, graeme_4 said:
I think it’s because he plays the same style / tactics as him. It’s clearly an effective approach in Scotland. I’ve no issue if we bring in a carbon copy of it because it works.
We’ve been crying out for someone to stop showing Scottish football respect, and steamroller over the top of them.
Not saying he’s the guy, but with Rodgers they’ve reverted back to a more possession based, cautious style - and it’s not working as well.
We shouldn’t be embarrassed about replicating their approach. Just look at their trophy count to ours recently.
Tbf this is why I’m not against Muscat.
My main concern is he’s not as experienced as Ange and was also a fucking head case as a player, which might resurface in the goldfish bowl of Glasgow.
His sides look like they’re a carbon copy of Anges, which is perfect for domestic SPFL football (if we build the right squad for him). Currently we don’t have that (you need a pacey striker to get in behind sides like Kyogo, maybe Danilo could do that but unsure), so it’s another rebuild in January and trying to move on players like Dessers, Lammers who won’t be able to play with that high intensity.
*****The Official Sparta Prague v Rangers Match Thread*****
in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom
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Butland
Souttar Goldson Davies
Tav Lundstram Raskin Sima
Cantwell
Dessers Roofe
Fuck it, 3 at the back seems to be the only way we don’t end up with someone out of position at LB.
Tav sits more and we concentrate on attacks down the left where possible. Bit lopsided but as good as i think we can make it.