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Didn't rangers want £20M for him anyway.

Would have been mad to have dropped that on him like.

Perhaps reassess and try for him in the summer when we have a more clear route to what type of players we want for the rebuild.

He would have made a risky signing timing wise for January.

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Also I think winning two in a row threw a spanner in the works.

If you can avoid it you don’t want to recruit in January, two wins probably made them consider trying to eke it out to the summer with what we have

Gash wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 8:00 am He's wrong then. Speak to any Rangers fans or Scottish pundits, he's still held in high regard. 63 games and 13 goals over a couple of seasons.

While you do occasionally make some good points I trust David moyes assessment more than I trust yours, and I have no desire to ever speak to a Rangers fan


13 goals over 63 games in Scotland is decent but it's not setting the world alight, he did OK at Rangers, I didn't say he was shit but he wasn't exactly the best player in the league at the time

HANNU wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 1:20 pm While you do occasionally make some good points I trust David moyes assessment more than I trust yours, and I have no desire to ever speak to a Rangers fan


13 goals over 63 games in Scotland is decent but it's not setting the world alight, he did OK at Rangers, I didn't say he was shit but he wasn't exactly the best player in the league at the time

To be fair he probably was.

Gash wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 1:30 pm To be fair he probably was.

For some reason I thought he'd played at Rangers with Gattuso, but looking it up there were years between them.

Goaljira wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 2:00 pm For some reason I thought he'd played at Rangers with Gattuso, but looking it up there were years between them.

Yeah, I thought they'd be quite close together but there was actually about 4 years between them.

I think a lot will depend on results this weekend potentially... If we lose to Leicester and Ipswich beat Southampton we'd be only 3 and 4 points ahead of those teams.

Say we win and Ipswich draw we'll be 9 and 6 points clear of them.

I think we can probably hold off until the summer if the latter happens, but if the former does and Beto throws in a horrendous performance we might have to buy someone who isn't maybe ideal for the long term.

In an ideal world Beto bags, we win and he gets another 3-5 by the end of the season before leaving for pastures new, but I think that's a tall ask. A win on Saturday though and I think we can take that gamble.

I was living in Scotland when Arteta was at rangers

My mates who was rangers supporters liked Arteta but he wasn't there best player, can't remember who was tho

HANNU wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 2:07 pm I was living in Scotland when Arteta was at rangers

My mates who was rangers supporters liked Arteta but he wasn't there best player, can't remember who was tho

Michael Mols?

There's a blast from the past.

Big Bobo Balde was the best player in the Scottish league at that point.

And Henrik Larson

Nacho Novo

At the time Arteta was there Ronald De Boer or Larsson were probably the best players in the league.

Mols was a serial bagger