Rangers FC Rumours

18 Apr 2024 14:18:50
A week after the cup win I was chating to a celtic supporter during
a discusion about both teams he said that he heard our players were not to happy about a bonus they were expecting, Ithought him saying that was just banter but now i'm wondering if it is true and has caused a change of attitude with the players since then.

18 Apr 2024 14:57:57
Why would a celtic fan know anything about Rangers financial bonus agreements, is your friend also a financial expert 🤔.

18 Apr 2024 15:09:07
Sorry I don't believe that our drop off is simply that when it got serious certain players wet the bed and the others aren't good enough to cover for those guys.

18 Apr 2024 15:41:33
What is the bonus for? I see no reason to pay a bonus to our players of any significance!

18 Apr 2024 17:04:18
Correct one Walter.

18 Apr 2024 18:04:21
do not know if it is still the same but were bonouses not sorted out at the start of the season.

18 Apr 2024 19:12:10
Beauty, that is the norm.

18 Apr 2024 21:23:27
Id give them a big pair a steelies to the santa claws as a bonus.

18 Apr 2024 23:11:03
Boys will not be happy the cash they winning the league and the club getting champions league will be quick a sum I believe but it’s up to them to make that happen if we win every game and beat them at Celtic park we still have a chance.

19 Apr 2024 09:32:18
aye because they aren't paid enough lol.

Gone are the days when players played for the badge. its a disgrace.

19 Apr 2024 14:22:24
These bonuses are always sorted before the season starts.

18 Apr 2024 08:14:02
John27, are there any teams actually looking at taking some of our "players" of our hands, first team players?

18 Apr 2024 08:30:45
Think some of them maybe ready to make Forest Green squad for next season.

18 Apr 2024 08:36:13
Good point Fork, we may need to ship a few who are not already out of contract or end of loans, but can we really see anyone coming in for what's left? At the very least we won't make much money on them that's for sure.

18 apr 2024 08:40:42
i dnt suspect anyone could possibly answer that question, how would john know?

18 Apr 2024 09:58:13
John gets info that’s how he would know TT. That’s why fork has asked him. John stated the other day they were a few clubs in for Butland 🤯.

18 Apr 2024 10:11:51
Think interest in tav and cantwell too
Possibly some Saudi money coming for tav I live in hop give us your millions please 😅.

18 Apr 2024 10:58:58
Exactly Storm1, spot on bud👍, are you the old storm or a new one, may have missed something?

18 Apr 2024 11:01:11
Been about for Tav for a while Stig, might yet happen, but on recent showings, not so sure bud.

18 Apr 2024 12:32:20
Lundstram Berwick Rangers maybe if he's lucky.

18 Apr 2024 12:36:40
Just for the record it is me and I have forgot my password 🤦‍♂️.

18 Apr 2024 13:01:36
Selling Butland might be the shout to get funds available, yes I would rather keep him but the team needs more work than ever, we will pick up good Bosmans but cash needed on others, selling Butland does not automatically mean there will be a worse goalie between the sticks.

18 Apr 2024 13:06:50
No probs @therealStorm😉😁.

18 Apr 2024 13:30:37
Fork am sure John listed a few names last week that had interest them.

18 Apr 2024 15:56:31
I seen that G4, was wondering if it had grown bud, cheers👍.

18 Apr 2024 18:10:52
If the Saudi's want Tav, we should try and do a Buy one get one free deal and they get Goldson as well!

18 Apr 2024 19:45:22
Gerard could help us out by taking both Berkshire 👍.

19 Apr 2024 07:12:10
Just made me laugh out loud this morning Berkshire 😅
Haha “Buy one get one free” 🤣.

19 Apr 2024 20:46:14
Sick of hearing gerrard might help us by taking tav believe it when I see it.

I’d love to cash in on tav but if teams were going to offer undefinable money would have done it by now think we are stuck with him

I’ve no problems with tav staying but personally I would play him righ mid as I’ve said countless times before he simply can’t defend also think goldson is a bigger problem and vastly over rated

Warned everyone about souttar always getting dragged out of position too eager to get forward your a defender first do your primary job

Sorry but if you play wing backs as we do in tav barasic then your central defenders are not ment to step out so much and leave other defender exposed both goldson and souttar do this and it’s why balogun and previously helander were considered much better defenders

We need defenders that defend

And forwards that score simple

Instead we buy forwards with horrible scoring records then wonder why we fail.

17 Apr 2024 00:14:19
Thought I'd post this wee rumour here and I stress it is a rumour, the father son duo who were let go as groundsman at Dundee were to sign an agreement with Dundee for a payout so as not to speak to press etc, the father did however I'm hearing the son didn't and has proof on his phone etc by way of messages from Dundee manager to "flood the pitch" for their Aberdeen game which was called off due to a waterlogged pitch, the reason being injuries and suspensions had Dundee down to the bare bones, now as I said this is a rumour from a workmate who is a Dundee fan who also said the son is in talks with newspapers about breaking the story, time will tell if there is anything in this or if it is just my work mate at the wind up.

17 apr 2024 07:41:04
a very interesting tale, and one i will await the outcome of with relish, probably not true, but then again, football is a murky business sometimes, this sort of thing has occurred many times, and other dodgy practices, yes, very interesting indeed, not unheard of.

17 Apr 2024 08:58:34
Sounds like a wind up but if true I reckon it would've been the club hierarchy handing out the instruction not the manager. Would love it to be true and they get banged down the leagues for cheating!

17 Apr 2024 09:13:55
Well if true and either signed an nda and are leaking info to press Dundee can sue them for everything they've got.

17 apr 2024 10:18:24
no they cant.

17 Apr 2024 11:05:58
I’ll go for incompetence over conspiracy pretty much every time.

17 Apr 2024 12:03:15
Tom if an NDA is broken there are financial legal implications, yes they can mate.

17 apr 2024 12:10:02
not for everything you got they cant.

17 apr 2024 12:13:23
most nda are broken legally, and some will cost you financially, they won't sue you for everything is what i said, not they won't sue you, , nda is a minefield, many have been challenged and torn up before, not as simple as just " sue you for everything you have "

17 Apr 2024 13:45:23
Just to clarify lads, the story I was told was the father had signed the nda but the son hadn’t, hence if all of this is true there wouldn’t be anything Dundee could do if it came from the son, as I say it could be workmate at the wind up but stranger things have happened.

17 apr 2024 14:32:41
if so the massive skoolboy error 56

getting the father to sign any nda and not the son would be almost criminal . hope so.

17 Apr 2024 17:22:18
I'm with you now tom, aye there's huge financial risk at stake for breaking one though, you're right, of course the keyword here being IF anything was signed.

17 Apr 2024 18:37:42
I was chatting to a Dundee fan on Facebook this week who showed me proof that the flooding is due to new build houses and insufficient drainage. He showed photos from the week the games were called off and the road was under a foot of water, all running towards Dundee's stadium. Apparently the SNP led Council need to stump up £3.5mill to fix this issue, so have been putting it off.

17 Apr 2024 19:55:28
Dont think there's any new builds where water would run towards dens.

17 Apr 2024 23:02:11
Surely if Dundee's ground was affected then United's would be as well. Whatever the situation is it's a shambles and needs sorting. If it isn't sorted then Dundee shouldn't be allowed to play in the SPL.

16 Apr 2024 22:29:25
Was talking to a guy at work who has connections at Aberdeen and he is under the impression that we have an interest in the lad Duk that plays up front for them. Not a rumour I've heard from anywhere else and none of my regular contacts have this info but the lad did tell me about wtight a few weeks before it went public. Duk for me is OK but would be a back up at best. Anyone heard anything about this.

17 Apr 2024 07:26:02
Could do a lot worse Bellshill decent player knows our league.

17 Apr 2024 08:40:21
He isn’t even a guaranteed starter for Aberdeen that would 100% be a step down and our options just now aren’t good enough. Let’s hope this rumour isn’t true.

17 Apr 2024 09:03:08
Agree. I like the lad.

17 Apr 2024 09:13:00
not sure he's an improvement but seems to have a bit of fight about him which would be nice to see in the side again.

17 Apr 2024 09:14:55
Remember reading a few folks on here talking about him last season, seems to have regressed this term, unsure as don't see much of him.

17 Apr 2024 11:07:33
The sheep dnt play them near bottom last season was their main man and finished 3rd.

17 Apr 2024 11:20:56
Would be ideal, can’t get a game with Aberdeen, let’s move backwards.

17 Apr 2024 12:43:21
Well we signed wright.

17 Apr 2024 13:14:29
Big NO for me on Duk, no doubt we will spend money on some donkey tho, far too many mistakes in transfers which has cost us big time on and off the pitch on top of that our injury record have had us p*****g against the wind for years.

17 apr 2024 14:36:26
not even close to good enough imo.

17 Apr 2024 15:39:47
Deadpan Storm😉🤣👍.

17 Apr 2024 15:44:23
Correct tt and allegedly Aberdeen want in excess off 3.5 million.

17 Apr 2024 18:20:27
Far too much John was going to say would be an upgrade on wright but would only pay 1 to 1.5million tops think at 3plus million we can do better.

17 Apr 2024 23:05:35
Would be par for the course for this Board, sign a player that doesn't get a game for Aberdeen. You don't need to be that good to be an upgrade on Wright! No way should we be signing players of this quality.
While we need to be bringing in players that are home bred they need to be significantly better than what we have. We have been spending money on 3rd rate players since we won 55 and as a result we are going backwards.

18 Apr 2024 09:42:33
Duk cannot get a regular game for a poor Aberdeen side so why would we sign him.

16 Apr 2024 07:57:49
Posted a while back asking if anyone had heard the bosmans we approached were represented by wasserman football agents. (Who we have a strong relationship with) .
Heard last night Callum O hare is one gathering pace. Rejected new deal at Coventry, represented by wasserman and in our wage bracket.

16 Apr 2024 09:43:08
Good player and definitely 1 who could improve us.

16 Apr 2024 10:38:05
Mentioned o'hare weeks ago in what I thought was gd info from a friend, it wasn't, but in saying that, there might be something in it, also seen the mob were mentioning him too few days back.

16 Apr 2024 11:17:26
Given the number of players we NEED to lose and replace, I imagine at least 5 Bosmans and 2 or 3 loans.
Hope PC and co have already got a list?

16 Apr 2024 11:45:09
I suppose in regard to O'Hare only issue we have is Celtic want him as well, and if we're not in CL it might be the determining factor. Could be wrong.

16 Apr 2024 11:59:48
Bar I think loan market will need to be targeted very astutely.

16 Apr 2024 14:38:48
John is cortez resigning on loan a possibility.

16 Apr 2024 15:03:39
One Walter I’d like to think we sign him, however it maybe prudent ro tie up a loan with obligation to buy.

16 Apr 2024 18:58:57
Looking at EPL players that are available on Bosmans and given our need for an upgrade in a number of positions I wonder whether any of the following are worth a punt.

Could be wrong but is Nathan Ferguson and Will Hughes available from Crystal Palace. I watched Hughes against Liverpool and he doesn't take prisoners. He is also a better player than Lundstrum.

Ferguson is still young and a Centre Back, not sure if he has had injury problems.

Another option at centre back would be Fabian Schar, he is getting on a bit but he is a solid centre back.

Tomas Soucek at West Ham is another option for midfield, solid defensively and still only 29.

Last but not least, is Ali McBurnie an option up front. He is 27 and has to be an upgrade on anything we currently have upfront. He is also a massive Rangers Supporter which has to be a plus.

16 Apr 2024 19:20:02
Cortes is exactly the kind of winger we have been looking for. i'd be disappointed if we don't tie him down.

16 Apr 2024 21:53:07
The Southampton player rumour recently, thought to be Armstrong, could it be Che Adams who will be out of contract?

16 Apr 2024 22:31:38
Biggar I think adams could be a great replacement for Roofe. Similar type player with decent eye for goal.

16 Apr 2024 22:34:10
Was thinking that the other day Biggar, seen something about Adams, Fletcher and McBurnie, heid like a sieve, can't mind where though. Quite like Adams too.

16 Apr 2024 22:35:30
Bigger, it was Armstrong.

17 Apr 2024 08:37:37
John27 do you or anyone else know if the injury to Cortes has put doubt into the club singing him since they didn't get to see him as much as they would have liked to?

17 Apr 2024 11:22:34
Burt, given serious of injury I suspect there will be doubt, hence reason I say loan to buy obligation if he proves fitness.

17 Apr 2024 13:26:44
Cortez looks the part hopefully a loan can be sorted to free up cash elsewhere, another big rebuild does not help us but with so many out the door and others needing replaced right through the team we could be double figures in numbers going out and in.

17 Apr 2024 16:46:23
Is Nils Koppen not trying to reduce the average age of the squad? plus Schar and Soucek are probably on big wages.

17 Apr 2024 23:10:40
Copland, my understanding is that we are looking for a mixture of youth and experience. Soucek in particular would be a massive upgrade in what we currently have and he might happy to move for a lower wage if he was given a 3 year contract. Definitely a better option than Lundstrum.
We have to start signing better quality players with fight and the right mentality. Otherwise next season will just be another like this season and Celtic will move even further ahead.

18 Apr 2024 12:37:37
Fork, none of the hammer throwers in this league going to knock McBurnie about, he wants to come here .

15 Apr 2024 10:24:25
Anyone hearing loan deal Rushworth to Rangers for a year.

15 Apr 2024 10:48:55
Rushworth the goal keeper?

15 apr 2024 10:58:18
hope he hurries up john.

15 apr 2024 11:00:44
goalkeeper john, is butland on the road out?

15 Apr 2024 11:03:34
Is he not at Swansea on loan?

15 Apr 2024 11:10:00
Had a nosey there John, not seen anything bud, he's contracted with Brighton to 2025, unless big Davie Weir has input in this.

15 Apr 2024 11:42:24
Fork my understanding he has just extended till 2028. Yes he is at present on loan at Swansea

App it’s between him Trafford for third goalie in England euro squad.

Tom I’m not sure if Butland will leave, we would be very negligent not to be prepared, also if a bid of around15 million were made imo we would be fools to say no

That’s a yes Azul. We r definitely scouting goalkeepers, we could see three away in summer.

15 apr 2024 11:53:22
anything close to 10 and jacks away if you ask me john, be very very difficult to keep him if no cl, let's hope for a final push.

15 Apr 2024 12:12:05
John, I'm just curious mate, if we sold Butland do you think we would try and buy this Rushworth, from what I've seen it would be a good bit business as he suits our trading model. Just the idea of loaning a young lad like that to be second choice if Butland stays seems a strange one in my eyes for Brighton and him.

15 Apr 2024 12:29:21
Cheers John didn't know he had extended to 2028 bud, could be a gd shout, see as you say Southgate looking at him for Euro's👍.

15 Apr 2024 12:37:25
Young blue rangers won’t be able to afford rushworth, Brighton allegedly value him higher than we value butland

The bar for young English goalies is around 15-20 million.

15 Apr 2024 12:47:47
Okay cheers John. Also, have you heard anything regards Callum O'Hare and Eduard Spertsyan?

15 Apr 2024 16:14:50
Striker required as the one currently in use couldn't hit a bison on the arse with a banjo . oh and set Lundstram free to pass to linesmen elsewhere and blame someone else for not marking players he should have, Keeper is far from the future problem V Dingwall he should have only needed a deck chair and cigar rather than at full pelt and having to go up for corners.

15 Apr 2024 17:03:50
Good goalie John, having a great season.
Definitely scouting goalies. I feel he may have a chance at Brighton next year over Steele.

15 Apr 2024 18:48:48
Young blue yes re ohare.

We r certainly scouting goalies as a no1.

My grandson reckons rushworth won’t go to Germany in front of Trafford.

16 Apr 2024 08:25:18
I wouldn't be surprised if a Epl club offered 15 million for Butland.

16 Apr 2024 15:27:20
Wonder if there's anything in when Forest inquired about him, might they come back in?

16 Apr 2024 18:17:04
Forkforest can’t afford him in terms of profability and sustainability rules.

16 Apr 2024 20:55:57
No probs John wasn't aware bud👍.

16 Apr 2024 21:25:52
Let’s be honest sha#er is twice the keeper butland is butland is class but Alan was the goat up there with the best shot stoppers ever imo.

16 Apr 2024 22:35:12
And a grumpy fecker aswell😉😅.

14 Apr 2024 18:46:08
Been told that Wolves are interested in Butland as Sa is expected to leave in the summer for the Saudi league. Possible that any deal for Silva could be offset/ reduced by the sale of Butland to Wolves. Clement likes him, I don't think he's worth the 15-20 million Wolves are asking.

14 Apr 2024 19:39:45
If butland goes I'd rather get his value in cash I don't think silva is what we need but 10m for jack could be well spent.

14 Apr 2024 19:55:09
Nope to Silva. He will go back and not return.

14 Apr 2024 20:05:54
Wouldn't give them £5 million for silva. Flatters to deceive and dives about too much.

14 apr 2024 20:13:27
silva looks tome like a guy whos been bought fir way above his value, there's better young scottish players imo, we have lost our way with regards to homegrown talent.

Ferguson and shankland should be rangers players and possibly doig, and definitely barron, there talent here waiting to be found we used to be renowned for our scottish players, captains and strikers, we took our eyes off the ball, allowed beale to waste millions while real talent in scotland walked away, ferguson and shankland would have crawled over hot coals to play for rangers, it's such a shame we didn't see what they could have been, we need someone who once again knows what a talented boy with roots at rangers can bring, its always a bonus having your heart in the club.

14 Apr 2024 20:28:40
Not a chance. Silva is terrible.

14 Apr 2024 21:17:46
I wouldn’t pay £20 for him.

14 Apr 2024 22:03:21
Silva became Silvia after the diving queen performance against them. it’s a no for me. if Butland goes anywhere spend the money on players that can keep well grounded.

14 Apr 2024 22:54:32
We're never buying Silva!

With entry into the CL looking like it's not happening, I bet you, right here, that Butland gets sold on the cheap.

15 Apr 2024 06:58:02
Money for Butland - a big YES
Offset to buy Silva - a big NO.

15 Apr 2024 09:04:53
Silva for me falls into the same category as Goldson and Lundstrum. The sooner he is gone the better. Nothing but a poser with an inflated opinion of his own ability.
If Butland is to go then we need to maximise the fee we receive for him. We will need around £40m to bring in the level of player needed rather than sign more 3rd rate players with no fight and totally lacking in a winning mentality.

15 Apr 2024 09:07:37
Rtr, wouldn't surprise me. I've always said he would be off and if we somehow manage to get double figures for him we will be doing well imo.
No where near the pot PC is going to need to AGAIN rebuild a team with at least 6 needed for next year.

15 Apr 2024 09:18:21
Tbh, i've been disappointed with Silva.

15 Apr 2024 15:37:17
There's far betters players out there for quarter price than silva. he was shocking yesterday. cash dealfor butland and we move on.

15 Apr 2024 16:49:54
Silva couldn't hack it with that World power Wolves so that signing is very odd . Reminds me of Alfie Conn who didn't like the rain or the cauld and hid, he left Mr Bean at left back to do it all himself and we know he can't do it even when he has help . The manager surely must have clocked this pair before. he could drag the first 2 out the stand and they would do better.