Rangers banter 6

11 Aug 2026 11:23:00
Morning troops.
Rome wasn't built in a day🔴⚪🔵

11 Aug 2026 11:51:50
It's hard, Tattie, but I'll keep the faith. What else can we do. I do hope we get behind the boys on Thursday. There are not many stadiums in the world like it when we do.

11 Aug 2026 13:31:33
Agree, Mph. Some fans forget the end of last season when under Danny Rohl, we lost 5 of our 6 'Cup Finals' and finished third. I'm still 100% behind Derek McInnes and think we can possibly start turning things around on Thursday night. Onwards.

11 Aug 2026 09:20:49
Anyone hearing anything about the extent of Chermiti's injury?

11 Aug 2026 13:24:35
ACL injury out for a good while.

11 Aug 2026 13:30:30
Yes. Not good news, just typical of our luck thou.

11 Aug 2026 13:34:01
Aye, ACL injury. Probably the worst case scenario out for the season. Hopefully, back sooner for the title run-in.

11 Aug 2026 07:39:07
{Ed's Note - Sunshine supporter FC has posted a new article entitled, Rangers Fans Demand Answers After Another Mess

11 Aug 2026 10:26:38
After what you witnessed yesterday?

11 Aug 2026 10:44:41
Couldn't agree more, ss. Storm made a good point yesterday about McInnes and co maybe struggling to talk players into coming here. He isn't exactly a household name, I get it isn't always about that, but sometimes little things like that can be the difference maker. When someone like Gerrard is chasing your signature, you sit up and take notice.

I posted yesterday about how big a game Thursday could be, for the manager, fans, etc. It's absolutely huge in terms of finances, getting fans back onside, confidence for the players, possibly attracting certain players.

11 Aug 2026 10:52:08
Bb4, that's the nicest thing anyone has ever said about me on here. 😂 It must be the first time ever I have made a good point. 🤦‍♂️

SS, good post mate, not much I can disagree with at all. 👌

11 Aug 2026 11:04:15
Agreed, guys, I would be very surprised if any of our recent squad signings had heard of DM before they met him. Not exactly our best selling point, put that with our club performance over last 10 years & it will be a thankless task to talk young players who have no idea of history etc. to come here to a 3rd rate league.

11 Aug 2026 11:09:37
This mess would of happened under the old ownership, potentially worse as they had no money left & Clement had to scrape together a transfer budget. Has the money been poorly spent? Yes, but it was there.

CEO is left over from the old, the DoF was wrong, there was 1 failed manager, Rohl took us closer to the title then any manager since Gerrard & had Martin's bunch playing football & we could actually defend, improved a lot of players whilst McInnes has made them worse & us as a whole, you can blame recruitment for that, but he's as much to blame for recruitment too as there is no DoF dictating thinks & he has picked these players.

We made the wrong appointment in Russell Martin when there was better managers on the shortlist. I personally think McInnes was the wrong appointment too, he just bottled the league, they were terrible from January & he refused to change tactics, there's been talk that Bloom was close to sacking him but this is the man fans wanted because he's a Rangers man & knows the league, he was picked by the new CEO who is also a Rangers man.

If you are spending the type of money we are, I believe we should be aiming for a higher quality of manager & paying extra to get them in or paying to get one out of a job. I would not of sacked Clement & gave him the money, I would of moved Koppen to DoF before ever hiring Thelwell, others will disagree with me on that & it's not hindsight thinking from me.

Has the takeover been perfect? No, but most takeovers take time before success comes look at Leeds & our problem is if we don't win anything then we want the manager sacked when it's impossible to build a winning team in a single season. Would you rather have a Green or Whyte back at Rangers?

11 Aug 2026 11:13:40
Mystar, lots has been said before, and by previous boards and some who were basically charlatans. Talk is cheap, and with clever sound bites have all looked impressive. Let's see if they back it up with some action now and if they can walk the walk too.

11 Aug 2026 11:46:01
Storm, not the first time you've made a good point, it's actually the second time in about ten years. 😂 Joking, mate, you make plenty good points, a just don't tell you in case you get a bigger head than you already have. 😁 Honestly though, a manager with no clout, a backwater league, team finishing 3rd, no CL football, possibly no Europa, players definitely consider all these things, Storm.

That was one thing I hadn't considered. Depending on the player, it could play a bigger part than many think.

11 Aug 2026 12:19:49
DJB, You're right about what happened under Clement, makes you wonder what could have happened if we had kept him and not turned Martin loose on the club last summer. Norwich look to be building a good team and I wouldn't be surprised to see them get promoted this season.

11 Aug 2026 12:31:00
Boy blue, Storm, ❤️ Feeling the love.

11 Aug 2026 12:35:33
DJB, I take your points, but would say that Souness and Walter put a winning team on the park in year 1. No psycho babble, just high standards, knowing a good player, building your team from defence, and star dust motivation.

11 Aug 2026 12:40:18
Can you elaborate, My Star?

11 Aug 2026 13:14:38
Sunshine, what do you mean yesterday?

11 Aug 2026 13:26:04
Mystar, his post about yesterday was after the game and before the board spoke.

11 Aug 2026 13:37:47
Jfm, never read it fully. That was what I was meaning about the Hibs game. On another day we win that game easily. Hibs hardly troubled us.

11 Aug 2026 13:55:59
Unfortunately, it wasn't played on another day.

11 Aug 2026 14:25:09
Jfm, we had no luck in that game. Very unfortunate, it was looking like only one team was winning it.

11 Aug 2026 14:48:17
I get what you mean, but you can't win a game if you're never ahead. Never a penalty, and Hibs just defended the whole game until the last minute breakaway. Our attempted finishes were poor.

11 Aug 2026 06:46:54
Did we get an update on Chermiti? How bad is it?

11 Aug 2026 09:10:07
Nothing official - at first, it was coming out the club that it wasn't as serious as expected, however, the lack of news & ongoing assessment are making me fear it could be a lot worse.

11 Aug 2026 09:12:11
Seen something saying around 6-8 weeks out.

11 Aug 2026 10:40:18
£20m down the drain, nice. 👌🏼

11 Aug 2026 11:36:22
Ally, how's that? Cavannagh said we're not interested in selling anyway.

11 Aug 2026 12:05:00
20 million down the drain, recruitment team to blame. 🎶 Can we sing that now?

11 Aug 2026 13:07:39
ACL. Out until Easter.

11 Aug 2026 13:26:52
Is that official Borna?

11 Aug 2026 13:45:59
Seems odd to make a song about one of our own being injured, Blue. Dunno how the recruitment team are to blame for his injury?

11 Aug 2026 03:08:36
We need to get shot of Diomande and Raskin n get as much money as possible for both. There is a severe lack of creativity in the squad and has been for a long time. Raskin looked capable on that no8 type role when Ferguson was in temporary charge. I don't really know who we could realistically go for to fill that role now.

Maybe the answer is already there in the squad if we gave em a crack at that position but I can't see it. The lad Just from Well could've done a job for us there a reckon. Anyone any ideas just for talking sake?

11 Aug 2026 07:57:14
Can't see us getting much for Dio. The fact that you're saying get shot of (which I don't disagree) indicates we're not going to get much. Dio is a very frustrating player, as I think he's a good player who confines to offer less than he should.

11 Aug 2026 08:33:34
Dado, Diomande is in Istanbul for a medical with Corum FK. Deal said to be £4.5m. A slight profit on what we paid. Corum keen to get him in for their first league game on Friday, so think this will move quickly.

11 Aug 2026 08:42:00
I don't know if it's true, but the figure I've seen for Dio is 4m. If true, then that would represent a loss on him.

I've always felt that he was nowhere near as good as some on here made out.

Diomonde can be filed under the exaggerated worth to Rangers alongside the likes of Hagi, Kent, Yilmaz and many more, who came at a price, and who left leaving a deficit. Another flop!

11 Aug 2026 09:10:46
Sunshine, Dio showed class in flashes. There is a player in there, but he doesn't show any consistency and can be erratic in tackles. We do need better, but can we truly afford the cash required for a serious major upgrade? Our team has lacked real creativity for years now, and, like most fans, we know it needs addressed.

11 Aug 2026 09:18:09
Where you seeing that, Sunshine? All reports I have read are saying £4.5m - £4.8m. Both would represent a slight profit. There's not a great deal between your reported fee of £4m and £4.5m - £4.8m, with our original purchase fee being somewhere in the middle. So, not all the doom and gloom of another player we made a loss on and leaving a deficit.


Getting roughly what we paid for a player who has been inconsistent and not lived up to expectations is a good deal in my book. Frees up funds to reinvest this window.
We're all going on reports until something is confirmed, so I guess time will tell.

11 Aug 2026 09:18:31
Nowhere near as bad as some make out either.

11 Aug 2026 09:29:24
Even at £4.8m, that's my point, he's not going for a big fee, at best, we likely break even.

I agree, Tav, he's not as bad as people have made out, it's just really frustrating that he doesn't influence a game enough. He seems happy to float plunder the radar.

11 Aug 2026 09:41:31
Not going for much and not going for a big fee are two different things. We were never going to get a big fee for a player who floats under the radar. Good business if we make the deal.

11 Aug 2026 09:45:05
He was a flop! Dress it up whatever way you want, guys, but in the grand scale of things, he done virtually nada.

11 Aug 2026 09:51:48
Nowhere near as bad as some make out, but he isn't anywhere near as good as some make out either. Lbh, he's been a huge flop, flashes here and there are absolutely no good to us.

11 Aug 2026 10:05:27
We have had him playing for 2 years + now though. Way the accounts work as well is that half of his value will still be on books, so we have made probably around £2.5m 'profit' which goes straight into overall turnover to be spent on transfers should we choose.

11 Aug 2026 10:06:51
We can live without Diomande. I'd be happy to break even and reinvest. Getting our money back is just fine by me. Better than offloading to get off the books which has been the norm x Good deal.

11 Aug 2026 10:17:12
It seems the majority of us share the same views on Diomande, inconsistent, has potential but hasn't lived up to it, floats under the radar. Do we continue to moan about his performances for another two years? Or be happy we got our money back to reinvest in a more impactful player? I guess the third option is to sell him and still not be happy we didn't get a big fee.



Given our views on Diomande, how can we complain about not getting a big fee for him?

Personally I'm hoping this deal is concluded this week.

11 Aug 2026 10:28:53
Angus, we also no longer carry Dio's annual amortisation of over £1m for the next two years.

11 Aug 2026 10:03:28
It's all well and good lambasting the club, managers, recruitment and deriding our league, but there don't appear to be 'solutions' out there from those who think the club is hurtling towards oblivion.
Have mistakes been made, YES, but let's be real. In 2 of the past 3 seasons the team has been in the thick of the title hunt only to painfully fall away. Is that a mix of an inability to cope with pressure? Management tactics? Quite probably, but it is not easy to recruit players to Rangers and the SPL. I don't think for one minute the fans would have tolerated Braga, kyzeridis or some of the Hearts recruits at the outset and I have no doubts the fans would have pelted the players as being 'not Rangers class' swiftly had success not been immediate.
The fact is that it is NOT easy as a player or manager at this club. The fans rightly have expectations of success in terms of trophies and expect us to not only challenge, but also be successful domestically and in Europe.
The board are not blameless, but if people here don't think they've put money where their mouth is, I am astonished. You may not like those players signed but AC (who admittedly is no football genius and so has tried to recruit football people to the board), has shelled multi millions to make us competitive. In the meantime we have gone through a succession of managers, from Gio to Rohl. None of whom appear to be able to satisfy fans. Very few seem to be in agreement as to who could actually make the team winners and names like Mourinho (not sure our budget would cover his salary alone) or Knutsen (who clearly prefers the stress free environment of Norwegian football) are absolute non starters.
At times this site offers a perfect window into the disharmony amongst the fanbase, and you only have to view some of the signings or failures (in terms of not getting players either signed or sold) to show that. We cannot force players to leave, or demand that clubs pay what some feel they should and equally cannot expect others to be desperate to come to the Gers because of some historical legacy. Players today want glamour, big bucks and top 5 league football, and galling though it may be to lose signings to the likes of Hull, Burnley etc is simply a fact of life (galling as that may be).

I am a lifelong fan, born in Govan and recall some magic times, which currently are sadly over the horizon. I don't believe this will change immediately, but DO believe the current owners are invested (both in terms of money, a little ego, and track records of success albeit in a business environment). The manager needs to start winning and soon, and this Thursday epitomizes this. Whilst I am baffled at some selections, like a few it is clear we have had ample opportunity to win every game so far. We also need more recruitment across all areas of the pitch (whilst trying to sell on, as profitably as possible), those deemed surplus to requirements, but the lottery is we simply don't know which players will sink or swim at Ibrox, as reputation really don't count when the whistle goes. Dio may not have been fabulous, Raskin may not be the creative answer, but equally who is to say the Dahl would be a world beater? Coming from relative obscurity in a middling Norwegian side (as let's face it I suspect the pressure he would immediately be put under at Ibrox would be as nothing he has ever experienced).
In conclusion, as I ramble away, I desperately want success across all facets of the club, and as a fan am entitled to offer options and constructive criticism if I feel it's merited, but equally will always offer my whole heart support to whatever manager, players and owners are at the the club.
For me the only way is up, and I genuinely have faith we will get there.

11 Aug 2026 10:35:10
Should have clarified, because we've taken the remaining two years' amortisation off the £4.5m sale, as Angus rightly said, we have a current year profit of approx £2.5m. This absorbs the next two years' amortisation. So, the next two years we are £1m+ up, plus Dio's wages of, I would guess, £1m per year.

Take it and run.

11 Aug 2026 10:56:27
He has been a middle of the road signing. I don't think he is suited to Scottish football, but that may be completely wrong, and I am giving him the benefit of the doubt. Not said he was ever a superstar or anything like that. The recruitment team have a lot to answer for.

11 Aug 2026 10:58:06
Regardless of a profit or not, it's still extra cash to fund transfers.

Personally, I think Dio has been ok, but I don't think he has improved as we hoped, unfortunately. Probably best to move on if we are getting c£5m ish.

11 Aug 2026 11:46:26
Think Dio deal is off. He was on way to Istanbul and turnt into trouble. 🤭 (taxi)

11 Aug 2026 13:36:43
McNaughten, it's not up to us to come up with solutions, mate. There's people paid a hell of a lot of money to do that, that are making huge mistakes. Surely you or I could spend all the millions we spent and finish 3rd, it wouldn't be difficult, would it?

10 Aug 2026 23:30:18
If Chermiti's injury isn't bad and say we sell him this window.

I'm curious to know, anybody any idea if we could afford the lad Dion Beljo at Dinamo Zagreb? cannot beat a Croatian striker at Ibrox. Some goal return for the guy n seen Ajax and Porto linked recently. Would push the boat out for him if the hypothetical scenario came to be.

11 Aug 2026 08:14:26
We aren't going to sell him this window. AC stated yesterday that no matter how much is offered there is. I point in selling if we don't have time to get in a suitable replacement (which would likely be the case).
Let's just hope the injury isn't too bad anyway, or we'll be very short up front if it is.

11 Aug 2026 08:39:26
Thought maybe we were going very short when we signed the Japanese lad. 😉😉

11 Aug 2026 10:53:31
I could give you the same goal return as Chermiti so far.

See better strikers down the local park.

Get the lad sold and away before it's too late and he runs down his contract / injured badly.



He was stupid making that challenge on Sunday, bit like Mols was way back, and we know how that turned out.

PS. Chermiti is in no way shape or form even close to the quality of Mols.

11 Aug 2026 12:26:24
AllyMc62, why was Chermiti stupid making that challenge? He went to block a clearance and succeeded, as a goal kick was awarded. It was just bad luck the way he fell. I thought we wanted players to put the effort in for the team?
As for Mols, again, not a stupid challenge.

He was actually trying to avoid contact when the keeper went right through him.
Criticising players for getting injured in tackles, I've heard it all now.

10 Aug 2026 23:08:42
We are going to win the league and I think we are 4 or 5 players away from being a extremely dangerous team.

And we will beat Celtic when we play and we will win on Thursday times are changing.

They struggled against Dundee and it was all panic stations. Killie has made them look dangerous but we have no helped ourselves

10 Aug 2026 23:36:48
That's more like it. 👍🏽 It's only 2 games, now that the dust has settled, hopefully most can see that we should've trounced Hibs at the weekend. Hit the post, hit the bar, minimum 2 possibly 3 cleared off the line, plus's all of the last ditch blocks, and their keeper had a few good saves.

It was one of the days, unfortunately. I'd be more concerned if we created nothing and never looked like scoring.
Fancy us to win the tie by half time on Thurs. 👍🏽

11 Aug 2026 00:20:46
Could have been 10-1 V Killie. Their 2 new forwards looked sharp.

11 Aug 2026 00:34:14
I think Casper will be deadly for them but still St Johnstone scored 4 against them also.

11 Aug 2026 04:19:23
Been hurt that many times, I can't help but be pessimistic! Hope you're right.

11 Aug 2026 07:12:50
I still think the goal this season is stabilising the asylum if I'm honest. Even adding 5 more players to the squad now will probably take until mid September for them to start to find their feet.

I can see us starting to find consistency for the end of October at which point we'll be miles behind. Hopefully next season we are only changing 3 or 4 players and not going through this madness again.

11 Aug 2026 07:34:35
Sounds accurate, Dado. Just need to hang in there meantime and hope results go our way.
I always rationalise that we have 4 Old Firms to play to claw that back, but need to hit form ASAP. Over recent seasons, it's not the Old Firms that kill us, it's the run of the mill games.

11 Aug 2026 08:00:04
Thanks, actually. I thought we signed the likes of Shankland, Big Dado. I thought he'd get us the goals against these guys like Boyd used to do. Let Chermiti worry about the bigger games.

That can still happen. Shankland just needs the first one. Better service from guys like Yokota and the boy from PSV (should we get him) will hopefully make a difference.

11 Aug 2026 09:01:02
He's totally reliant on service, mate, so should pick up a bit when that's in place.
Hasn't fallen for him yet. Couple of half chances so far.

11 Aug 2026 09:12:16
It's the hope that kills you.

11 Aug 2026 09:15:34
Correct both Dados - I believe that Shankland will get 20 or more for us this season in all comps - he has been unlucky at times and just needs that first one in as you guys say and things will improve rapidly imho.
I know it's not happening but would like to have seen Shanks and Miovski up top for a period. 🤔

11 Aug 2026 10:16:22
Love that Ryan, after my dummy spitting earlier on Sunday I'm on board your train fella.

11 Aug 2026 10:16:29
I think it will be down to Shankland on Thursday, could be just the job for him to kick on, hope so.

11 Aug 2026 11:01:17
Must be some strong bevy you are on, love it! 🤣🤣

Killie literally gave Celtic 4 easy goals. The new guy was in the right positions, to be fair to him, but still, all absolute sitters, so I take no real notice of the score line.



Our issue is that we do not create enough good chances or score enough goals to win games, never mind put on an exciting display for the fans to watch.

Hopefully it is just two games and we can push on.

11 Aug 2026 12:33:33
We've signed 9 players and we are only 4 or 5 players away from being a really dangerous team, kinda suggests we have got a number of signings wrong. Even if we had decided to replace everybody in last season's team, we should only need to sign 11 players to be a really dangerous team, not 13 or 14. Unless those 4 or 5 you talk of are really quality (and by names being linked that's not the case), we won't win the league.

Celtic just paid £ 11million for a striker which is £1 million more than Chermit cost, and he has got 3 goals when I'm pretty sure it took Chermiti until January to get to that amount last season. There's the difference in the two clubs right there.