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I think Bougherras performances have paid us back If he dissolved his contract id have been annoyed. If he stays here and has another good season (I'm maybe the only one but for me bougherra was still good last season even thought it wasnt his best) and leaves us on a bosman to test himself in the epl, I wont be annoyed at him. For me the guys never hid his desire to play there from day 1 & we all know its the league to be in right now. So if he doesn't sign a new deal, I think we should try and cash in on him, but if he doesn't go we have another season of boogie to look forward to. We paid a million for Beattie and nobody would be angry at him if he left and we never saw a penny! Boogie does himself no favours by speaking to the press as I think he's an honest guy who just says what he wants and sometimes the press add arms and legs to what he says. The truth is he loves it here but he knows he needs to move to the premiership soon or it will never happen. As much as Carlos Cuellar was excellent for us (i'd honestly say world class) he did lie to us, bougherra has not done that and has given us 3 great years. I've now forgiven Cuellar because I understand why he left and for that reason i respect why Boogie wants to go. If he does go... all i'd say is thanks for the memories

Does anyone else read on here and just think some of our fans are ridiculous. An example i've picked is detailed below Some fans commenting on Archie Campbell being released and saying its surprising and they think he could maybe have made the bench next year... yet these same fans moan that we haven't made any signings? Do people not realise that its not possible for us to sign a load of players and keep a load of our senior youth team players? We have to get the balance correct. Also Ally McCoist and Craig Whyte have come out and said that there first priority was to tie down the core of existing squad on longer contracts, This is what they have been doing? Keeping the Nucleus of this squad together is vital. Getting Mcgregor, Whittaker & Davis tied to new deals should be our no1 priority. Another example i look at is craig conway, some people saying we should sign him and still get another couple of quality wingers. 2 points on that, our moneys only going so far, no point buying players for the hell of it, we need to prioritise and bring in some quality in key areas. If we bring in 2 wingers and conway, that would virtually kill of gregg wylde's chances, which again seems to have been forgotten. I also have an issue with how many judge our youth, John Fleck 19 years old and people writing him off already, remember Alan Hutton, he turned out alright, I hear that charlie adams done alright down south too! Young players generally take a few years of regular football to settle into a team, flecks no different! By the same token, we should suddenly judge someone by 10-15 games and think that's it they've made it! Im pretty sure Maurice Ross had 10-15 good games (maybe) for rangers and that didn't make him a good player. If we have a first team squad of about 18-20 players plus wylde, fleck, ness, hutton & then if we really require them mcmillan, perry, little & grant adam ( only because he's 3rd choice goalie) that would be ideal for me. right now we have gk- Mcgregor, Alexander def- Bougherra, Whits, Papac, Broadfoot, mid- Edu, Davis, Naismith, McCulloch, fw- Jelavic, Lafferty, Beattie with possibly healy & weir to add to that. The only player you can see McCoist really not wanting is Beattie, everyone else id expect to be here next year. Beattie will only go if he gets a club, if not we've got to give him the benefit and give him a second chance. Id expect Weir to sign & Healy if Beattie leaves. so that would leave us with 14 players meaning in my eyes we'd need 5 maybe 6 more. So for me we'd need (i've mentioned players we've been linked with for the point below) cb- Bartley (loan or permanent cb- Wilson/cuellar (loan or permanent) lb- Wallace lw/rw- Conway (although Weiss would be ideal) fw- Hemed & if we were to add a 6th it would probably be someone like danns, but that would majorly have an impact on the development of hutton, ness, fleck & wylde. This season will be all about building a squad to challenge not about big marquee signings! Thats how I see us spending our money and I don't think we'll spend 9-10 million, the only way we'll end up spending that is if we miss out on the free transfers of conway, hemed & danns. Anyway... like it or lump it! That's how we're gonna go next season! Then what whyte has to do in the seasons to come after this one, is back McCoist by trying to try to add a few jelavic, davis style quality players to our squad!

A Lot of these surprise me! Gio showed ambition by going to arsenal and we got a great fee for him, no problems with that at all. Kenny Miller to begin with I was annoyed because I thought going to Bursaspor was a greedy call and I still think that, but I think there was a fair amount of pressure on him to go. There's no point in talking about the players that flopped here as obviously we don't like them. so for me Kris Boyd, scored some amount of goals, but was far too lazy and useless on the ball, the fact he claimed to be a rangers fan and never signed the contract annoyed me. Jeremy Clement- Paul Le Guens boyfriend can do 1, as soon as le guen left he followed him like a love sick puppy! Had no respect for this club. Marco Negri- Love those 6 months but everything there after was dismal Fernando Ricksen- Don't think le guen handled it brilliantly, but ricksens behaviour was unacceptable Basile Boli - He used to play for my 2nd least favourite team, he's french and he's useless Sergio Porrini - Hated him, couldn't kick a ball properly and at the time i always thought he was our weak link! Dave Mcpherson- I only saw the second spell and i just thought he was useless Gordan Petric- another one i never rated None of these i can fully hate though as they all had there good moments and i always look for the positives in rangers players.

There's a lot of nonsense in this thread about plg, blaming various factors which take away from the overall fact that, he wasn't up to the job, the facts are. 1. His results weren't good enough 2. His signing's weren't either, papac & maybe clement apart. 3. The team couldn't defend for love nor money, I'll always remember svensson and hemdani playing at the back & letting the ball bounce over the two of them, cant remember who it was against but it was in europe. Hemdani should never have played centre back. 4. He thought letizi was better than mcgregor 5. He thought sebo was better than boyd (im not even boys biggest fan... but come on!) 6. He fell out with various players (Boyd, Ferguson, Ricksen, Bardsley) 7. He nearly sold novo to coventry 8. He didn't grasp the Scottish culture 9. Didn't trust his Scottish staff The positives from his spell 1. He gave charlie adam his chance and charlie flourished under plg 2. Some of our attacking football was excellent and at its best was better than what we played under walter 3. He brought Novo back in the team 4. He signed papac 5. He tried to drastically improve our approach to the game, with fitness levels, eating habits 6. he got rid of some deadwood (malcolm, fan-fan, namouchi, kyrgiakos, bernard etc) That's all I can think of but even the positives i've picked are flawed. Le Guen was not cut out to manage us those are the facts!

A lot of these posts are pretty narrow minded, I don't think we'll ever know the full extent of what happens behind closed doors. There's clearly a problem n the Ibrox boardroom but I think the only people that will be leaving for sure, will be Johnston, the Lloyds guy and David Murray's representatives! If i had to pick some to stay id expect Bain and John Mcclelland will due to the contacts they have and the fact they are highly involved with uefa! As for the criticisms of both Greig and Jardine, that's not right for me. I would imagine that they are not allowed to discuss club matters publicly and that's why we don't hear too much from them, however their input in the boardroom would be to try and maintain the clubs traditions & to look out for the fans. Who else could come in and represent the club?

To be fair when you consider the current level of youngsters who are in the first team or have been there or there about, we have fleck, little, Ness, Hutton, Cole & Wylde as well as Perry & Mcmillan (who are out on loan and may or may not have a chance). I've also heard a lot of good things about hemmings. I think if the vast majority of these work out then we should look at finding youngsters that can come in and improve on them! I read that Celtic spent over 500k on there youth team, hardly surprising they won considering that level of investment! I also read that the turncoat McGeough is getting paid 3 grand a week when he re-joins Celtic, he's 17 and never played a first team game! I'm still confident that we'll keep producing good young players, as if they want a chance to play at first team level, there's a better club in Scotland for the top young players to join!