Rangers banter 8

04 Oct 2026 07:39:11
{Ed's Note - EHL2020 has posted a new article entitled, Can Rangers Replace Morelos's Tactical Impact?

04 Oct 2026 09:55:53
Very well done my friend, I totally agree with your assessment of Alf as a battering ram and enforcer in one who could also score goals and his impact on the team tactically, he must have been a dream to have when mentally and emotionally mature, my issue with him was his behaviour in the latter part of his time here, but yes , a great piece about his pivotal role in that time.

04 Oct 2026 10:15:19
On his day Alfredo was outstanding. You could tell within the first 5 minutes of the game if he was up for it, and if he was the defenders were in for a tough match.

Had some great performances in Europe for us.

04 Oct 2026 11:01:00
He did indeed Bee, I wouldn't have wanted to face him back then when he was mentally tuned in to the game and team, he was strong and cute, but he let the club and the fans down badly imo , think Naderi and Kelsey could prove a step up.

04 Oct 2026 12:28:57
Morelos is doing well in Colombia, his belly is away, looks very solid right now.

04 Oct 2026 12:51:54
I agree My star, morelos does look very fit over in colombia 👌🇬🇧.

04 Oct 2026 13:31:22
Loved Morelos when he was on it , need more fingers on my hands for the amount of times he cost us points with discipline right enough , not all his fault but his reputation didn't help with our great Scottish refs 🤷🏼‍♂️.

04 Oct 2026 15:34:43
Mystar he should be playing with a Porto or a Marseille now he's going to have a lot of regrets when he ends his career. What a player and sadly didn't achieve everything he should and could have.

05 Oct 2026 09:53:44
Morelos mission in life was to stop the ten. Pure Fate. He won the biggest trophy of them all.

03 Oct 2026 21:34:17
{Ed's Note - EHL2020 has posted a new article entitled, Can Rangers Replace Morelos's Tactical Impact?

03 Oct 2026 22:52:18
Good read and very well written EHL.

I think this is where he will thrive alongside Ryan Naderi.

Naderi is very much in the mould of a strand-larsen or Sørloth for example.

Kelsy hopefully will prove similar to a gyokeres type striker.

04 Oct 2026 07:50:29
Brilliant piece, EHL.
Morelos Mark 2 - things you love to see😍.

04 Oct 2026 08:06:29
I did see that since Alfies contract expired there has been a massive impact on the markets. Greggs the bakers have been hit the hardest with factory closures and thousands of jobs lost as a result of his departure.

04 Oct 2026 08:33:18
Aye shocking 3 cheers, they're taking oot some steak in the steakbakes and putting in Stilton fgs🤮 cutbacks eh!😉.

04 Oct 2026 08:37:28
Yes, but alfie unplayable on his day Three Cheers my friend 👌Buff was superb for most seasons at Rangers and even the top centre halfs in Europe just couldn't cope with him 👌🇬🇧.

04 Oct 2026 08:43:24
Cracking read again EHL, cheers. I've a 6000 word reflective piece due next week, if you're not busy!

04 Oct 2026 09:57:57
Cheers, I hope you are doing very well ol son and enjoying life.

03 Oct 2026 12:03:16
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new player profile about, Jahnoah Markelo

03 Oct 2026 09:24:36
Big chance of silverware this weekend folks with the return of the prestigious Tennents sixes tournament.
Would be great to see Andy Halliday holding the trophy aloft on Sunday night.
Bring it home Barry please because i'm missing us winning things.
I used to love watching this years ago.

03 Oct 2026 09:34:24
I agree with everything you said here Three 👍 Everything Rangers enter i want us to win so go and win the Tennent's Sixes guys good luck 👍🇬🇧.

03 Oct 2026 13:35:09
Waghorn and Candeias is good addition to the squad.

03 Oct 2026 14:08:45
Where can u watch it?

03 Oct 2026 15:37:53
It's on Premier sports 1.

03 Oct 2026 16:00:41
Three cheers great to have you back, where you been? Your definitely missed on here mate 😁.

03 Oct 2026 18:31:15
It's a veterans run out, back in the day it was a proper tournament
Not my cup of Earl Grey tbh.

03 Oct 2026 19:06:29
1st team
Pumped Ctic twice

Rangers woman pumped them last week

And now

Our former players have just pumped them in the tennnet 6s 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

03 Oct 2026 19:13:12
I don't care if it's tiddly winks BAR72 🤔i love beating them at anything and 7-1 😁we gave them an absolute dooing 👌🇬🇧.

04 Oct 2026 05:56:03
Fair enough SWS, you enjoy it mate 🫡.

04 Oct 2026 08:39:10
Don't you worry BAR72, i absolutely will enjoy it and love pumping them at anything 😁🇬🇧WATP.

04 Oct 2026 08:56:49
I quite enjoy watching fat folk getting nutmeged and blowing out their hole at the same time.

04 Oct 2026 12:46:30
Surprised that the tennis balls weren't thrown during the second half.

04 Oct 2026 13:34:47
Watched them pumping Celtic 7-1 on YouTube and scoring the same against St Mirren , so those who not got Prem sports get on it and cheer yourself up.

04 Oct 2026 15:02:00
Cooper, been watching it mate, Rangers will win it, Ferguson has them organised, they want to win it, you can see that.

04 Oct 2026 19:06:31
Rangers look well above others and seem to play the game better with man advantage in attacking half and getting ball quickly to striker when we win ball back , less recovery time going into final the only worry.

04 Oct 2026 21:18:18
Then beat in the final, did look above the others, Cooper.

02 Oct 2026 20:03:29
Filip Beckman is a young left footed central defender I think would be a good addition.

Predominantly plays left sided central defender in a back 3 but is equally adept at playing in a 2.

02 Oct 2026 21:27:40
Think Casper widdell will be next CB we sign tbh just need Souttar gone.

02 Oct 2026 21:47:02
If we do sign Casper Widdell Rangers56.1, i think he'd be a squad player mate because he is not shifting makhanya or Fernandez under derek McInnes for me and correctly so 🤔🇬🇧.

02 Oct 2026 22:09:14
How do you know that sir Walter? If their form dips, like 1 month ago for Fernandez then he'll correctly be removed with another player taken his place and rightly so.

Players are only as good as their last game and every player in the squad needs to perform week in or week out otherwise there are excellent players chapping at the bit to get into the first team.

02 Oct 2026 23:02:10
If we keep both mak and manny next season then I don't think Godfrey will sign.

Thus giving us the need for 2 new players.

I too think widdel will be coming in January though.

02 Oct 2026 23:09:38
Having both Fernandez and Makhanya is top class recruitment, that is some partnership for a club in this league.

03 Oct 2026 01:33:37
Beale don't forget penrice in this, for me he's Scotlands best left back now and it's a travesty he's not in the squad never mind the 11.

Robbo was in the top 2/3 left backs in the world for many years but he's on the wane and isn't same player now.

Tierney is a quality player too but again on the wane and can't play a full 90.

Penrice is a class act for me.

03 Oct 2026 06:29:45
Feel Fernandez would benefit from some competition to sharpen his focus a bit as still has the tendency to switch off.

03 Oct 2026 07:04:48
Not fancied big Chris Smalling all Summer. See he's just signed for Porto.

26 y.o. and signs for favourites to win a Portuguese leaving yet some say he couldn't cut it at Rangers, lol.

03 Oct 2026 07:55:21
Stevie G, i totally agree with you regarding James Penrice, pal. 👍 Have been saying this on here since he was at Livingston, that Rangers should sign him as he's a quality left back and for me our no.1 left back.

03 Oct 2026 08:37:10
He's 36 not 26, Stevie.
But I agree he could have been a decent signing on a free for a year.

03 Oct 2026 09:09:23
He knows he's 36 Bee, typo mate.

03 Oct 2026 11:16:54
Interesting change in narrative around Wendell.

When he was first mentioned we were very much in our 'sack the full football operations' phase and he was being slated by the majority due to some YouTube clip of him failing to clear the box with a header.

Now we're in our 'oh wait, maybe our recruitment team aren't incompetent' phase the negativity around Wendell has vanished.

03 Oct 2026 11:23:28
36 years old sign on fee and wages would be massive and would you not play and stop the development of many or Makhanya as he's would not come to sit on the bench at Rangers not he's not good enough just not a player we need at this time.

03 Oct 2026 12:01:45
Rfc that's a fair assessment mate I couldn't argue against what u say .

When I really wanted smalling we hadnt signed Makhanya yet and manny wasn't convincing us.

I would say this. Smalling beside makhanya would be outstanding central defence for a couple years especially in Europe next year.

Yeah guys meant 36, I seem to have a lot of typos guys so apologies for that it must be frustrating sometimes.

03 Oct 2026 14:45:54
EHL that reaction is almost guaranteed unfortunately.

I for one have always been impressed by Widell and hope he is one we do sign.

03 Oct 2026 17:27:12
EHL I've always thought recruitment was very reactive but in the last wee while with all the incoming players saying that there was interest 6 months to a year previous it suggests to me now it's not. Or maybe that's always been the case not sure.
Always had the thought that we are unique. players that come in could look amazing at other clubs and fail.


My issue previously was stability too much continuous change never makes a winning team.
We now need depth to replace players potentially leaving for money or dropping off form. Casper widdell will be that rough round the edges but a replacement all the same.

03 Oct 2026 19:24:43
Rangers, with the exception of Martin's window, its very structured and detailed.

Crucially the recruitment team and process grows and evolves with consistent application.

With the data driven approach, we learn more from signings who don't settle than we do from those who do.

Equally those involved in the process grow and develop a better understanding of the various tools.

As good as this window has been, we should be better next time round.

05 Oct 2026 10:01:56
I would be going for Joao Tornich (Alemao) the big left sided defender from Lask. 23 year old Brazilian. He is definitely going on to great things that player. Celtic players are still in his back pocket.

02 Oct 2026 10:50:21
I'm just after reading about our quality centre half olwethu makhanya and how good he was in both South Africa's games, in which he started 👌In one of the games makhanya was up against the classy Dortmund forward guirassy and dealt with him with ease 👌 What a player we have in our hands guys 👌🇬🇧.

02 Oct 2026 11:00:43
I know we have heard this plenty of times in previous seasons but I don't say this lightly. He's a proper quality player SirWalter, he will make us a tidy profit. I just hope we can keep him for next season for a crack at Europe.

02 Oct 2026 11:07:17
Couple of interesting facts about The Tower, that just go to show how easily things can change in football.

Makhanya was brought to our attention early on in the Clement era and he was one of the top 3 centre backs proposed to Russell Martin when he took over, however he didn't fit Martins Profile and we opted to sign Fernandez instead.

He was Rohl's top pick and we were very nearly spooked in to making a move for him in January, as he was very close to joining a French side, however it fell through and thankfully McInnes didn't hesitate to authorise the move.

What could have been if we signed him under Martin or Rohl???

02 Oct 2026 11:14:29
I see also fellow bears that we're allegedly very interested in makhanya's Philadelphia Union centre half partner Neil Pierre, who stands at an incredible 6' 7"😲. He must be some player because he's regarded an even better prospect than our superb south african centre half olwethu makhanya 😲🇬🇧.

02 Oct 2026 11:28:34
Sorry EHL I find it hard to believe that a player of Makhanya's quality was identified during that era given the amount of guff we bought during that era. Although it would be very fitting of those to pass on Makhanya and sign players like Propper etc. That's them to a tee.

02 Oct 2026 11:43:33
Propper wasn't our first target and many of our targets the manager turned down.

02 Oct 2026 11:56:56
I find it really sad how much time and effort you spend trying to troll people Caldo.

I know have asked this before, and I want you to know that I'm being genuine when I ask it - but I hope you are okay.

02 Oct 2026 12:15:04
Swso I was in a tiktok live with him 2 nights ago at half ine in the morning, after one of his games, him and another player possibly mofokeng, not exactly sure though. Had a nice chat with him for about 20mins, such a chilled big boy, seems very mature for his young age. Said he's absolutely loved his time at Rangers so far, he loves the pressure of playing for a club like ours.

He said there had been contact from Rangers a couple of times, was so happy to finally get it over the line. I asked him who he gets on best with, he said all the boys are really tight, but has a great relationship with big manny, nico is always up to no good 😂 He also said the intensity in training is excellent, something that he wasn't used to, but really loves it.

I had to ask about the Old Firm obviously, he said he had watched re runs of the Dortmund game, thought wow, what a support, couldn't wait to play in that atmosphere, said he wasn't disappointed, the atmosphere was crazy, he remembered going in at half time thinking, what just happened out there, wow! Couldn't wait to get back out to it again.

He absolutely loved it, had dreams as a kid of playing in games like that. He did say he had to watch it back as it was a bit of a blur, because he was so laser focused. Wanted to ask him more but there was a few south Africans in the boxes asking about his national team performance as well so it was difficult to ask to many questions. One of the South Africans heard my Scottish accent and asked him who i was, he said, this is one of my people from my new home Glasgow Rangers 🤣 what a guy.

A South African woman came in the box and he asked her whereabouts in s. a she was from, she told him a certain place, he said I remember they dragged me from my car and tried to rob me there, jeezo what a place.

02 Oct 2026 12:41:11
We've got CBs who play for SA and Nigeria but according to the comedy page Trusty is in front of Makanya when it comes to the national team🥴, go and have a read 😂😂.

02 Oct 2026 12:54:01
You've always got to remember the circumstances when discussing signings made or missed .We hear a lot about guys we missed out on that have gone on to do well and would now cost a fortune but most of the time since 2012 we just didn't have the money at the time we needed it . The signing of Propper was done as it was an easy one at the right price when we had just forced Goldson out the club and by all accounts paid him to go .

As for Makhanya , maybe we are lucky we missed out on him for a couple of years and that he is a more first team ready player now .Lets just enjoy him for as long as he's here ( or at least until his first mistake hahaha).

02 Oct 2026 12:55:06
Boy blue, he sounds like a top bloke mate.

02 Oct 2026 13:06:16
Del, quite a few of our players have said we were interested in them under previous managers such as Pandur said we spoke to him before Butland. We may have made wrong choices but many of these players have been on our radar for quite a while.

02 Oct 2026 13:07:11
Coops imo he's the best player to play for us in many many many years.

I am not doing a typical Stevie here when I say this lads going to the absolute top of the game , the very very top.

Reminds me so much of van dijk.

02 Oct 2026 13:53:19
seems to me as if we identify a number of choices for positions and for various reasons including manager choice we don't make the signing at the time. so perhaps worth remembering when we 'miss out' on our first choice that perhaps the other in the options aren't bad players or even worse than those we miss out on.

02 Oct 2026 13:55:02
He definitely is mystar. Some of the questions getting fired at him were really deep from the south Africans, how to deal with loss, how to trust, how to have more confidence in yourself, it was bizarre, the big man wasn't shying away from any of them, answering the best way he knew how to.

02 Oct 2026 14:05:41
Bb4 it sounds like it was u whom he was speaking to then when he sang simply the best mate.?

He was touching his crest(albeit South African) and saying my new home Glasgow Rangers then said Watp and sang simply the best , is that when u were speaking to him then maye as that's the video I saw.

02 Oct 2026 14:39:37
I know they have Kaiser I'm not saying they weren't, its just hard to believe when you see the players that they did actually sign. You wouldn't think that they were actually looking at good players.

02 Oct 2026 15:35:20
Boy blue, that's superb to hear that from your good self pal and how well makhanya spoke not only about Rangers, but in general 👌🇬🇧He is so razor focused and already a big fans favourite, thanks for sharing your conversation with him Boy blue, much appreciated my friend 👍🇬🇧.

02 Oct 2026 15:21:47
Stevie I'm not sure mate, haven't seen that video, is it on tiktok?

02 Oct 2026 17:23:29
I think Propper got a lot of flak when others were just as bad didn't tbh, I remember Souttar being just as bad if not worse at the time and Sterling didn't cover himself in glory either. Some players got injured a completely ruined them like Danilo, who got found form then got injured and never recovered and Cortes looked a player then others got ruined by the constant change of management like Dio, who each manager had play completely different.

02 Oct 2026 18:12:13
and just yesterday you were saying our signing and recruitment strategy had changed. but it obviously hadn't as these players were previously identified.

choosing the right time to sign an identified player is the skill I expect the club to show and feel they did and still do. I am not sure the players are rally better quality but the mentality in the whole club has changed since we cleared the decks is the feeling I get.

02 Oct 2026 18:42:35
Propper was awful . others were bad but not as bad as him.

02 Oct 2026 20:09:56
Bb4, it was instagram I saw the repost, but it was a video with writings down the sides and that like TikTok live would have mate.

02 Oct 2026 20:28:36
Love this type of post EHL! Highlights how hard the recruitment team work.

02 Oct 2026 20:29:19
Bb4, was pitch black at night and he had his training gear in or at least a training type t shirt.

02 Oct 2026 20:21:13
Sons of Struth, who said Trusty is ahead of Makhanya at international level? Is Trusty not a USA international. Obviously someone who automatically thinks any Celtic player is ahead of any Rangers player at international level. They even think Nico should have been behind Engels, yet look how that turned out.

02 Oct 2026 21:16:41
Agree Robbie. all of a sudden Buar is world class as he wins his first cap for Germany , brought on 2:0 up 77 minutes in the third game for the first time 🤣.

02 Oct 2026 22:13:35
sorry. but he was given a cap for Germany. Take off the blinkers and see what an achievement that is for any player. Nico has had little game time for Belgium in this round of internationals but he is still a Belgian international and will play more again in future. stop being so petty.

03 Oct 2026 09:26:02
Only seen him a couple of times now Angus, but Klopp speaks highly of him, that's enough for me, hopefully he fails in our league though.

03 Oct 2026 11:24:51
Cheers for sharing EHL under Rohl would of been good under the vegan that could of destroyed the boy 😂.

03 Oct 2026 13:21:40
No stevie g, he was in a hotel room when I was speaking to him mate, must have been the same night though I'd imagine.

01 Oct 2026 21:11:34
Now I know we are strong if we were to strengthen anywhere what player would yous bring in for me it would be a cam and that's it.

01 Oct 2026 21:39:51
An attacking minded mf for me too mate. JHD on loan would work for me , sorry lads 😂.

01 Oct 2026 21:52:18
Lcb is the only area of the pitch i think are light.

If anything we still need to move on a few heads.

01 Oct 2026 22:52:11
There's a possibility Casper Widdel will be that 4th cb if we move on Souttar in January.

He's in the papers tomorrow talking about how close he was and it was only a players refusal to move that stopped it.

01 Oct 2026 23:25:28
Stevie, he's out of contact 2027, mate, we're still interested in him, won't be a big fee in January, could sign a pre contract.

01 Oct 2026 23:40:03
Beale I think quite strongly we'll go in for him in January mate, Nsiala is a way and Souttar will likely go in January so we'll need one in and if u go read his articles in press tonight for tomorrow mate it does sound like the club stioo want him.

02 Oct 2026 08:22:18
Read widely article on line yesterday and reference to Souttar, no surprise.

02 Oct 2026 08:23:07
I think we are looking at a particular rw and ch.

02 Oct 2026 08:54:32
We don't play with a cam so signing one would be a waste of time and money. McInnes has already said that he plays with two central midfielders and two strikers. He's also said that Drago is out the team because he is working with him as he is not quite ready to play in a midfield two.

We play with quick wingers who will invert but we don't play with a traditional cam. If we are to sign anyone it would be a cb.

02 Oct 2026 09:57:44
We need better at right back and an attacking midfielder.

02 Oct 2026 10:07:00
I don't think we need better at right back than we already have in the superb, now hopefully injury free dujon Sterling Ajd123🤔 We've a lot of attacking, forward thinking players at our disposal now and there's not a better one on one defending right back in Scottish football than Sterling imo anyway 👌🇬🇧 He's a quality defender 👌.

02 Oct 2026 10:39:44
Agreed SirWalter, we definitely don't need a right back.

02 Oct 2026 10:47:30
McCrorie is not good enough we definitely need better rb.

02 Oct 2026 10:58:15
Mccrorie more than good enough to be a squad player for us, brings a lot more than just on the pitch.
He can play a role just like Broadfoot did.

Casper Widdel would be an excellent signing and as others have said could be secured on a Bosman.

02 Oct 2026 11:15:50
Ajd, we've got nedeljkovic to understudy / cover Dujon Sterling mate 🤔🇬🇧.

02 Oct 2026 12:12:53
Ajd, A rb when we already have the best in the league, also have Nedeljkovic, McCrorie, left footed cb's would be my choice.

02 Oct 2026 13:03:34
I would agree that we need some more cover at centre back , either a younger player that could play some games or an old head ( Balogun type) . While I also agree that we currently don't play with an attacking midfielder , I do think we lack goals from midfield so having that as an option might be a good idea .
I am interested in the comment about the squad still being a bit big, numbers wise I don't see that .

We can't count the guys out on loan or the likes of Souttar and McCausland who do need to leave , so we pretty much have two for every position except maybe in midfield where we seem to have one too many and striker due to Chermiti's injury. Current first team squad is 24 , and that includes Chermiti, which I wouldn't have thought was too big.

02 Oct 2026 13:06:35
We have 3 RBs. One has been outstanding ones starting for Serbia and one's more than ok as a back up. What are some folk smoking? 😂.

02 Oct 2026 13:35:42
I'd have thought bouonini and yokota at Rw would do for us especially with Curtis performing so well when gave the chance.

Kim and Gassama on the left for me. If he persists with Kim as a 10 then I'd say we need another left winger to compete with Gassama.

02 Oct 2026 17:30:59
Think missing out on Widell was a blessing. don't think he's very good tbh.

02 Oct 2026 20:32:19
Trip,

I've read a few reports in him mate and not one single but had been good.

I've not seen him so I don't mean to run the guy down that would be unfair but I seen a game his team loat like 5-3 and he was at fault for 4 goals or something like that.

02 Oct 2026 21:55:49
John is spot on. Will be CB and RW. CB clearly wanted by club and 1 short, only blocked by Souttar. Will also be priority if Godrey doesn't work out. RW will be needed for when Bouanani deal ends.

For the first time in a long time our squad looks stable and structured enough that we can go into windows focused on 1 or 2 key additions.

03 Oct 2026 13:07:26
We won't sign a Right winger in January for when Bouanani leaves , unless its on a pre contract or somebody becomes available on a free .We already have Bouanani and Yokota plus Minsu has been playing there and Curtis showed in the U21 game that he is comfortable there too .

03 Oct 2026 13:36:49
We don't need anyone in January unless an injury or serious drop off in form from someone or if someone leaves. Maybe a pre-contract. CB and RW will still be the priority positions we want to fill for next season to replace the loans that we are less likely to sign. RB will also be high up list if Nedeljkovic doesn't impress.

We will be much less reactive in the market going forward.