Nothing but pride after Rangers four-year Euro journey ends in Seville

[The Dude 20,026]

The morning after the heartbreaking night before and the head is still sore, the throat is still raw and there’s a sickening sense of ‘what might have been’ – but the overwhelming feeling this morning after watching Rangers lose narrowly on penalties in the Europa League final in Seville is immense pride.

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[G.E.C. 18,793]

I’m confident we’ll see another final shortly.

The introduction of the Conference League and the CL revamp will give us a good chance of winning the Europa again.

[Inigo 32,534]

The positives should easily outweigh the defeat in the long run. Same as with Manchester.

[Inigo 32,534]

We can build on this. 

Imperative we qualify for the CL.

[j1mgg 3,766]

Just now, Inigo said:

We can build on this. 

Imperative we qualify for the CL.

We need to build on this, and it should be our aim now to always get out of the group stages of Europa.

[GWR1979 1,964]

We were superb in Europe this year our chance last night was Kent right at the end, just wasn't meant to be. Getting to the Final is a massive achievement and we are growing into a better European side. We almost did it last night in 2008 we weren't even in the game. Can't blame the players they just looked nervous as fuck.

[STEPPS BOY 73,969]

Saturday is the last dance for this squad and Gio has quite a big rebuild ahead in summer.

Hopefully, although i severely doubt it, our recruitment is done asap to give us best chance for CL qualification.

[cr3_bear 14,873]

Now it’s time for the club to make the step up to building a team capable of consistently getting into those champions league group stages and sometimes even beyond them. 

[CR3 12,690]

4 minutes ago, STEPPS BOY said:

Saturday is the last dance for this squad and Gio has quite a big rebuild ahead in summer.

Hopefully, although i severely doubt it, our recruitment is done asap to give us best chance for CL qualification.

Bassey was getting a lot of plaudits from the English media last night, will do well to keep hold of him and absolutely need to.

[Inigo 32,534]

1 minute ago, CR3 said:

Bassey was getting a lot of plaudits from the English media last night, will do well to keep hold of him and absolutely need to.

Win-win tbh.

Goes for 20 million, helps the rebuild.

Stays, great defender on our hands, who's equally effective at CB or LB.

[Negri's lovechild 14,075]

2 minutes ago, CR3 said:

Bassey was getting a lot of plaudits from the English media last night, will do well to keep hold of him and absolutely need to.

He was immense. The things that stood out were his mentality and physicality against top level opposition. He wasn't fazed at all.

[Bad Robot 21,159]

10 minutes ago, GWR1979 said:

We were superb in Europe this year our chance last night was Kent right at the end, just wasn't meant to be. Getting to the Final is a massive achievement and we are growing into a better European side. We almost did it last night in 2008 we weren't even in the game. Can't blame the players they just looked nervous as fuck.

Our fans at the stadium were so nervous as well, I think because we all knew how massive it was for us.

[Inigo 32,534]

Bassey has been superb against high level opposition. Is he home grown for English clubs? He's 22.

He should be commanding lots and lots of money.

[HOPLITE 221]

2 minutes ago, CR3 said:

Bassey was getting a lot of plaudits from the English media last night, will do well to keep hold of him and absolutely need to.

 

I honestly don't see him being here much longer he has everything to play with a top team in the EPL, I can see teams like Spurs, Arsenal, etc making moves the lad is that good. When he does go Ihope we get top dollar for him. 

As for the opening post the past four years has defo been the most consistant Rangers have been in my lifetime and I can go back to the late 70s, I really hope we can keep it going for a few more years yet even at Europa league level. 

[GWR1979 1,964]

2 minutes ago, Bad Robot said:

Our fans at the stadium were so nervous as well, I think because we all knew how massive it was for us.

It's one of the disappointing bits of the game. I thought it was BT dubbing us and cranking up the volume of the Germans. I was nervous in the house so I can understand the nerves. Kents chance at the end was the one but there Keeper was immense.

[J-Maestro 11,111]

4 minutes ago, HOPLITE said:

 

I honestly don't see him being here much longer he has everything to play with a top team in the EPL, I can see teams like Spurs, Arsenal, etc making moves the lad is that good. When he does go Ihope we get top dollar for him. 

As for the opening post the past four years has defo been the most consistant Rangers have been in my lifetime and I can go back to the late 70s, I really hope we can keep it going for a few more years yet even at Europa league level. 

I reckon he does one more season here then on for big money.

[Corky True Legend 2,682]

I don't reckon that we need to spend too much on our rebuild when you consider the talent we have coming through from the youths. King and Lowry have already proven themselves and, with careful nurturing, we could have some great players already at Ibrox.

When we lost Gilmour to Chelsea, we were not a European force or he may have stayed. Patterson might also still be with us if he had been played more often but, as understudy to Tav, a move was probably right for him. Pity it did not work out due to the managerial change but at least we got a decent fee.

I know that we are now a selling club to survive but no longer should EPL or Euro clubs consider us a bargain basement for transfers. Top dollar or don't bother.

[Rangers_no1 32,524]

CL is huge in the summer.

As things stand we are looking at one of these in Q3

PSV

Midtylland/APOEL/AEK Larnaca or Fenerbache

Sturm Graz

Union Saint-Gilloise

Q4 those same sides but also the possibility of Dynamo Kyiv, Marseille/Rennes/Monaco.

Not going to be easy at all, but we have beaten similar or better sides the last few years. 

[Inigo 32,534]

Very doable with a competent rebuild.

[Madina 3,825]

42 minutes ago, GWR1979 said:

It's one of the disappointing bits of the game. I thought it was BT dubbing us and cranking up the volume of the Germans. I was nervous in the house so I can understand the nerves. Kents chance at the end was the one but there Keeper was immense.

Maybe they were dubbing us, but even just looking at the two sets of fans it was night and day. Frankfurt had visuals (tifo, waving flags, flares). Any time you saw our fans they were just standing/sitting. Even my mum commented on our fans being subdued. 

[Vanoli 4,625]

6 minutes ago, Rangers_no1 said:

CL is huge in the summer.

As things stand we are looking at one of these in Q3

PSV

Midtylland/APOEL/AEK Larnaca or Fenerbache

Sturm Graz

Union Saint-Gilloise

Q4 those same sides but also the possibility of Dynamo Kyiv, Marseille/Rennes/Monaco.

Not going to be easy at all, but we have beaten similar or better sides the last few years. 

I’ve said before that the scum have made Champions League qualifiers look impossible over the years. They aren’t, our expectation absolutely must be that we will win those two ties after the levels we’ve found in Europe this year. 

[STEPPS BOY 73,969]

10 minutes ago, Rangers_no1 said:

CL is huge in the summer.

As things stand we are looking at one of these in Q3

PSV

Midtylland/APOEL/AEK Larnaca or Fenerbache

Sturm Graz

Union Saint-Gilloise

Q4 those same sides but also the possibility of Dynamo Kyiv, Marseille/Rennes/Monaco.

Not going to be easy at all, but we have beaten similar or better sides the last few years. 

Bar the French teams, i’d fancy us against rest.

[Bad Robot 21,159]

52 minutes ago, GWR1979 said:

It's one of the disappointing bits of the game. I thought it was BT dubbing us and cranking up the volume of the Germans. I was nervous in the house so I can understand the nerves. Kents chance at the end was the one but there Keeper was immense.

and our fans who don’t go to games regularly so don’t know half our songs but many we’re so nervous. I get this we’re only human but it was disappointing. I said the same thing when the scum equalised at Ibrox and that was with our full home support. Having said this, I don’t think the atmosphere at Ibrox against RM will ever be topped and the game against Braga was also closely up there.

[Bad Robot 21,159]

12 minutes ago, Madina said:

Maybe they were dubbing us, but even just looking at the two sets of fans it was night and day. Frankfurt had visuals (tifo, waving flags, flares). Any time you saw our fans they were just standing/sitting. Even my mum commented on our fans being subdued. 

It wasn’t dubbing, the heat and dehydration sapped played a part for us but strangely enough not for the Germans 

[j1mgg 3,766]

15 minutes ago, Bad Robot said:

and our fans who don’t go to games regularly so don’t know half our songs but many we’re so nervous. I get this we’re only human but it was disappointing. I said the same thing when the scum equalised at Ibrox and that was with our full home support. Having said this, I don’t think the atmosphere at Ibrox against RM will ever be topped and the game against Braga was also closely up there.

If there were a lot of fans there that are not ST holders, or don't go to games, then surely this should be reported to the SLO.

 

And how are they getting these tickets?