Roy Makaay discussion

[Essandoh 21,870]

What a player he was back in the day. Elite goal scorer.

Stating the obvious but it’s a great time to be a striker at Rangers with Jermain Defoe and Roy Makaay as your mentors. Absolute fountain of knowledge for everyone in the squad.

It’ll be interesting to see if Alfie’s game adapts at all to being more selfish/direct while staying nearer the box area, rather than dropping deeper like he has for some time now.

He seems very highly rated as a coach.

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He was a class player man, Deportivo had a fantastic team that won La Liga and he scored 20+ goals

He always had the misfortune of playing at the same time as Kluivert initially and Van Nistelrooy latterly, meaning his international caps were restricted to sub appearances

[Smell the hotdog 4,129]

3 minutes ago, Essandoh said:

What a player he was back in the day. Elite goal scorer.

Stating the obvious but it’s a great time to be a striker at Rangers with Jermain Defoe and Roy Makaay as your mentors. Absolute fountain of knowledge for everyone in the squad.

It’ll be interesting to see if Alfie’s game adapts at all to being more selfish/direct while staying nearer the box area, rather than dropping deeper like he has for some time now.

He seems very highly rated as a coach.

Is he really or is everyone thinking because he was a class striker he will be a class coach?

Everywhere I've looked he's not been in a job since Gio left Feyenoord so unless I'm missing something I can't see a highly rated coach sitting out the game for that long.

[McEwan's Lager 32,058]

5 minutes ago, psb07158 said:

He was a class player man, Deportivo had a fantastic team that won La Liga and he scored 20+ goals

He always had the misfortune of playing at the same time as Kluivert initially and Van Nistelrooy latterly, meaning his international caps were restricted to sub appearances

Him and Pauleta up front. Some strike force.

Then when Pauleta went it was him with Diego Tristan and Walter Pandiani.

Football used to be so much better.

[Essandoh 21,870]

4 minutes ago, Smell the hotdog said:

Is he really or is everyone thinking because he was a class striker he will be a class coach?

Everywhere I've looked he's not been in a job since Gio left Feyenoord so unless I'm missing something I can't see a highly rated coach sitting out the game for that long.

I’m gonna look full of shite here coz I can’t remember where I’d read/watched it but I found an article/interview about him where he was being talked up as a good coach

Ill try find it after work 

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2 minutes ago, McEwan's Lager said:

Him and Pauleta up front. Some strike force.

Then when Pauleta went it was him with Diego Tristan and Walter Pandiani.

Football used to be so much better.

We were linked with Tristan at some point, weren't we? 

Pandiani was an absolute monster. He was class in the air too, he wasn't the tallest man (6 ft I think?) but he could outjump anyone. 

[Essandoh 21,870]

4 minutes ago, McEwan's Lager said:

Him and Pauleta up front. Some strike force.

Then when Pauleta went it was him with Diego Tristan and Walter Pandiani.

Football used to be so much better.

Just brilliant names  

Also, never forget: 

Big stinking Pandiani

[BlueSuedeSambas 56,399]

Just now, psb07158 said:

We were linked with Tristan at some point, weren't we? 

Pandiani was an absolute monster. He was class in the air too, he wasn't the tallest man (6 ft I think?) but he could outjump anyone. 

I think we had agreed a deal to sign him but he had a change of heart at the last minute.

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2 minutes ago, DBBTB said:

I think we had agreed a deal to sign him but he had a change of heart at the last minute.

That was when we got desperate and went out and signed Flo, or am I mixing things up here

[McEwan's Lager 32,058]

2 minutes ago, Rangers_no1 said:

Tristan is one of my favourite ever players. 

Deportivo were cracking to watch. 

Yeah Valeron was one of mine from that side, loved him as a player.

Team were brilliant but full of enigmatic players.

[McEwan's Lager 32,058]

1 minute ago, psb07158 said:

That was when we got desperate and went out and signed Flo, or am I mixing things up here

Yeah, Flo was third choice. We tried to buy Emile Mpenza, he went to Schalke, tried to get Tristan and he went to Depor.

[McEwan's Lager 32,058]

Sure we tried to buy Samuel Eto'o at the time too when he was at Real Madrid but that could have been the season after.

[JackAlex93 12,564]

11 minutes ago, McEwan's Lager said:

Him and Pauleta up front. Some strike force.

Then when Pauleta went it was him with Diego Tristan and Walter Pandiani.

Football used to be so much better.

Such great memories of watching these players as a boy growing up. 

[Essandoh 21,870]

Football was better in the early 2000s and I’ll not hear any different

Even with money beginning to take over the Premiership down south, the product wasn’t completely watered down like it is now

Every team seemed to have that iconic player with individual brilliance that could turn a game on its head. Players are over trained now. Grumble grumble.

[The Specky Forum Organiser 69,602]

Just now, McEwan's Lager said:

Sure we tried to buy Samuel Eto'o at the time too when he was at Real Madrid but that could have been the season after.

That was Mcleish

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/scotland/1908490.stm

Loved that Deportivo team, spent much of my childhood playing as them on LMA manager  

[The Specky Forum Organiser 69,602]

4 minutes ago, Essandoh said:

Football was better in the early 2000s and I’ll not hear any different

Even with money beginning to take over the Premiership down south, the product wasn’t completely watered down like it is now

Every team seemed to have that iconic player with individual brilliance that could turn a game on its head. Players are over trained now. Grumble grumble.

Bolton managed by Big Sam with a midfield trio of Ivan Campo, Djorkaeff and Jay Jay Okocha

[Inigo 33,327]

1 minute ago, Essandoh said:

Football was better in the early 2000s and I’ll not hear any different

Even with money beginning to take over the Premiership down south, the product wasn’t completely watered down like it is now

Every team seemed to have that iconic player with individual brilliance that could turn a game on its head. Players are over trained now. Grumble grumble.

I also feel like the bigger clubs having far bigger squads lends towards the smaller clubs not having the odd iconic player the way they used to.

[stuart1994 4,532]

Mental that our best two finishers will be coaches. 

[The Specky Forum Organiser 69,602]

2 minutes ago, The Specky Liar said:

Bolton managed by Big Sam with a midfield trio of Ivan Campo, Djorkaeff and Jay Jay Okocha

Nakata and Hierro as well  

[esquire8 45,224]

Interested to see what he brings. Great striker in his day but we don't know too much about his coaching style. Is he the attack coach? Set pieces? Do we even know of Gio splits up his coaching team or everyone just mucks in? 

[cr3_bear 15,534]

9 minutes ago, Essandoh said:

Football was better in the early 2000s and I’ll not hear any different

Even with money beginning to take over the Premiership down south, the product wasn’t completely watered down like it is now

Every team seemed to have that iconic player with individual brilliance that could turn a game on its head. Players are over trained now. Grumble grumble.

Aye the Premiership was amazing entertainment back then and in the 90s . Was the perfect blend of modern , fresh and exciting but still had that old school vibe in the background with many of the teams still playing at their traditional grounds. 

for me now it’s a bit of an over commercialised snoozefest at times played out in soulless stadiums 

[Essandoh 21,870]

3 minutes ago, The Specky Liar said:

Nakata and Hierro as well  

Morten Gamst-Pedersen at Blackburn

[aird 3,947]

I assume he's fluent in or at least as a good grasp of Spanish. Hopefully that will only benefit Morelos. 

I remember getting a Deportivo top out of a sports shop in Springburn shopping centre of all places 

[BlueSuedeSambas 56,399]

15 minutes ago, McEwan's Lager said:

Sure we tried to buy Samuel Eto'o at the time too when he was at Real Madrid but that could have been the season after.

I think he was at Mallorca when we tried to get him.

Did we not also try and sign Hakan Sukur too? That might have been McLeish era rather than Advocaat though.

[BlueSuedeSambas 56,399]

I still think the one who got away from that era who we should have gone after was Robbie Fowler when he went to Leeds. He would have been incredible for us.