Rangers interested in Ross Stewart

[the goal machine 7,811]

I’d take him…

[ZZed 4,510]

10 hours ago, psb07158 said:

Ross. Fucking. Stewart.

If we're being linked with random shite keepers from Germany and Ross Stewart, this is going to be a very long summer transfer window:

 

PSB you have made me a sad man today of all days. Go and sit on the naughty step.

[Johnstone Burgh 1,654]

1 hour ago, MorelosRangers said:

If he was from Spain we'd be getting excited.

It may be a 3rd choice striker i.e. a replacement for Itten.

Plus its likely newspaper gossip

You’d be excited if we were linked with a guy with an average scoring record from the Spanish third tier?

[Prso's headband 35,788]

Unsurprising when you fuck the league. 

[wully 47,919]

I dont want to talk about it.

[rangersross 6,542]

People seemed pretty excited about Josh Maja and he had a similar goalscoring record (and worse games:goals ratio) in League One to Stewart with less than half as many assists. As a cheap, homegrown signing, he makes sense to me. 

[The Dude 20,026]

Just now, rangersross said:

People seemed pretty excited about Josh Maja and he had a similar goalscoring record (and worse games:goals ratio) in League One to Stewart with less than half as many assists. As a cheap, homegrown signing, he makes sense to me. 

Josh Maja wasn't 26.

[The Specky Forum Organiser 65,747]

5 hours ago, scottyscott1963 said:

More like alex fuckin neil trying to punt another player.

Why would he be trying to punt his main player?

[rangersross 6,542]

4 minutes ago, The Dude said:

Josh Maja wasn't 26.

Has he done anything since to suggest he's significantly improved as a player? When we were supposedly looking at him, he was also being suggested as a Morelos replacement (whereas Stewart would probably be a replacement for a backup like Itten), and would've probably cost 2-3 times what we'd have to pay for Stewart or more. Plus, he's homegrown and probably on ~50% or less of Maja's wages. 

[don logan 8,084]

Would be a good squad addition.

[stuart1994 4,357]

Not the most overwhelming rumour going about but I’ve learned to never write off a signing before they’ve played, plenty of signing who should’ve been good and have been shite or looked shite on paper and turned out to be good. You never really know with a transfer. 

[The Dude 20,026]

8 minutes ago, rangersross said:

Has he done anything since to suggest he's significantly improved as a player? When we were supposedly looking at him, he was also being suggested as a Morelos replacement (whereas Stewart would probably be a replacement for a backup like Itten), and would've probably cost 2-3 times what we'd have to pay for Stewart or more. Plus, he's homegrown and probably on ~50% or less of Maja's wages. 

No idea what he's done.

We're not signing someone to replace a player we've spent a year trying to give away. Itten isn't a backup. He's totally out of the picture and is only here until we can find someone stupid enough to take him/we can agree a payoff. Same with Simpson. In terms of domestic homegrowns, we've already got Jack, Souttar and (probably) Arfield and Wright who count towards out domestically trained player quota. We need 4 domestically trained and 4 club trained.

[The Specky Forum Organiser 65,747]

2 minutes ago, The Dude said:

No idea what he's done.

We're not signing someone to replace a player we've spent a year trying to give away. Itten isn't a backup. He's totally out of the picture and is only here until we can find someone stupid enough to take him/we can agree a payoff. Same with Simpson. In terms of domestic homegrowns, we've already got Jack, Souttar and (probably) Arfield and Wright who count towards out domestically trained player quota. We need 4 domestically trained and 4 club trained.

[BlueSuedeSambas 54,254]

Why do people think Stewart would be cheap?

In demand players from that league move up to the championship for 2-4 million these days regularly and if Norwich and Swansea are after him then there will probably be more.

[rangersross 6,542]

1 minute ago, The Dude said:

No idea what he's done.

We're not signing someone to replace a player we've spent a year trying to give away. Itten isn't a backup. He's totally out of the picture and is only here until we can find someone stupid enough to take him/we can agree a payoff. Same with Simpson. In terms of domestic homegrowns, we've already got Jack, Souttar and (probably) Arfield and Wright who count towards out domestically trained player quota. We need 4 domestically trained and 4 club trained.

Okay, but Itten's squad status isn't really relevant to my previous point. The point is we clearly plan to have a third-choice striker and, if Itten is deemed totally insufficient, we'll have to sign someone else. Instead of him or in addition to him isn't important. We'll be aiming to fill that 'backup' striker role and, clearly, it'll have to be someone relatively cheap with a limited ceiling. 

There's no point pretending RS being homegrown isn't an advantage either. It clearly is. 

[tom1780 1,222]

Good to get business done early 

[DarnleyLoyal 69]

Thought we were upgrading the scouting department but we seem to be shopping in a very limited market. What a surprise.

[BlueKnight87 17,389]

2 hours ago, BlueSuedeSambas said:

Why do people think Stewart would be cheap?

In demand players from that league move up to the championship for 2-4 million these days regularly and if Norwich and Swansea are after him then there will probably be more.

Thought he was out of contract in the summer but still one year left. 

No chance we'll be getting him cheap if interest from other sides in England.

[KeyserSoze 14,655]

2 hours ago, don logan said:

Would be a good squad addition.

We really don’t need any more squad players ffs. Half our first team can take up that role. 
 

our current squad players can all go imo. 
 

We need four or five first team picks, stick ons, first name on the team sheet type players 

[ShanksRFC 3,870]

Absolute horse muck

[Colin Traive 23,038]

No harm in having guys like this as squad players. Jordan White, Callum Hendry, plenty of them around.

But he would be purely a backing singer, not on lead vocals.

[BlueSuedeSambas 54,254]

8 minutes ago, KeyserSoze said:

We really don’t need any more squad players ffs. Half our first team can take up that role. 
 

our current squad players can all go imo. 
 

We need four or five first team picks, stick ons, first name on the team sheet type players 

It’s what we’ve needed for a long tome. Our strongest team on paper only has two players, Lundtram and Bassey, who were signed after 2019. It’s no wonder if feels so stale and stagnant.

[don logan 8,084]

30 minutes ago, KeyserSoze said:

We really don’t need any more squad players ffs. Half our first team can take up that role. 
 

our current squad players can all go imo. 
 

We need four or five first team picks, stick ons, first name on the team sheet type players 

Were you enthused when we signed Tavernier from Wigan? Bassey from Leicester reserves? Morelos from Finland? Did Ryan Jack from Aberdeen excite you? Kamara for £50K from Dundee? What is a first team pick anyway? We thought Ramsey from Juventus was one? Diallo from Manchester United too.

[KeyserSoze 14,655]

1 hour ago, don logan said:

Were you enthused when we signed Tavernier from Wigan? Bassey from Leicester reserves? Morelos from Finland? Did Ryan Jack from Aberdeen excite you? Kamara for £50K from Dundee? What is a first team pick anyway? We thought Ramsey from Juventus was one? Diallo from Manchester United too.

I could quote you 10x more failures than you can quote me decent players. 

Fact is we need to stop buying lots of cheap and crossing our fingers we get one or two decent players from it.
We need a targeted approach that negates the term “take a punt”

we need to change. 
 

btw Kamara now looks like a 100k player and Dalio is a squad play for sure, he will be loaned out next year to an English 2nd division team 

 

[don logan 8,084]

2 minutes ago, KeyserSoze said:

I could quote you 10x more failures than you can quote me decent players. 

Fact is we need to stop buying lots of cheap and crossing our fingers we get one or two decent players from it.
We need a targeted approach that negates the term “take a punt”

we need to change. 
 

btw Kamara now looks like a 100k player and Dalio is a squad play for sure, he will be loaned out next year to an English 2nd division team 

 

Fuck sake