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Great signing! Loved the casual announcement

Yes, we've been a bit naïve in defending, however we have played some really good football this season and pushed some of the bigger teams all the way. We should be well clear of relegation had a few results went our way. I honestly believe when we stay up, we'll be a far better team next year for it. A few key acquisitions and those 21 points dropped from winning positions will be greatly improved on.

We've scored more than a lot of the teams further up the table, Sheff Utd for example. We are now defending better, so I can only see us improving next year.

We got promoted a year ahead of schedule, Smith is still learning as a Premier League manager and he will only get better imo.

Look at the our wins this year, the coincidence I notice is that Hourihane seems to be in the squad when we've picked up those wins. Is it his set pieces? eye for a forward pass? Greater goal threat? I've no idea but we seem to get results with him playing. Food for thought.

It's a weird one, he looked like a great signing and then poof, he's gone.

4 points from the last 2 games has been a great boost after the Man City drubbing, especially coming from behind in both. That Man City game could be our Southampton moment in a way.

Beat Bournemouth and things are definitely looking better. 7 points out of 9 must be the target now. That 3-1 win for them last night looks goods on paper but Brighton had plenty of chances etc. So they will still be there for the taking. Watford were on a far better run and we dominated for large spells last night.

2 hours ago, Wainy316 said:

How about 95?

I’ll gladly take the 95th min! I’m still buzzing!

Brighton's defence really struggled with pace against Everton at the weekend. So El Ghazi through the middle might not be a bad idea. Didn't realise how slow Dunk was until I watched the game. They've also only won 1 game in the last 6 in all competitions.

We've definitely got a chance of getting something if we turn up and play well.

Bring Him Home!

If Benteke does sign, he gets my full backing. With the talent we have on the wings, he will score but more importantly, his hold up play is a lot more rounded than Wesley's and that could be more vital than his goals in allowing us to get up the pitch and starting playing more in the final third.

I'd take Benteke. He's been really unlucky in front of goal, an early one for us and he'll be flying. I have no doubt about that.

6 hours ago, useless said:

From what the reports have been saying we're not going to be spending big in January and will only bring in a  striker if we can sell Kodjia. Maybe Josh Maja is someone we could go for, when Abraham was being linked with Wolves last January I thought he might be someone we could get as a replacement, and I don't think Bordeaux paid that much for him, so we could offer them a relatively low fee that would see them make a big profit. Would be nice to get someone more proven, but not sure if that's going to be possible.

Maja finally just broke into the first team over the past few weeks, scored a hat trick at the weekend as well. Don't think they will be looking to sell atm.

It's vital we win the majority of our next run of games.

Everton have a run similar to what we've just been through coming up. They could be well in the bottom three comes the new year.

10 hours ago, gurru991 said:

Rangers are adamant they won't sell in January

They have actually said, they won't sell him for any price in January. Anyone wanting Morelos is January is going to have to pay a ridiculous amount of money.

He broke a few records last night. First Rangers player to score in 4 consecutive European matches and most goals (13) scored in Europe in a single season by a Scottish club breaking Henrik Larsson's record for Celtic (12).

Surely Southgate would have got the nod that Jack was injured, hence this was the true reason he wasn't called up most recently!?. He's not exactly going to come out and say that though as then our opponents would have known he was likely not playing against them (Wolves).

Southgate alluded to it last time that where Jack is playing for us now, he's up against Sterling, Sancho etc for places. However I think Grealish could easily end up at the Euro's at the expense of Mount, Maddison or Barkley.

He just brings something to the team, none of the other options can. We seem to get results when he plays, simple as that.

1 hour ago, Laughable Chimp said:

30million for a player playing in a league that's arguably not even championship standard is pretty insane to me. Might be better for us to look else where for more value for money.

The Scottish league is far better than people down south give it credit for imo. Very rarely do players move south and fail. I think any transfer involving Morelos will be a record breaking fee for Scottish football, so above Tierney's £25 million.

If Morelos keeps playing the way he is, avoids injury etc. Then the value a team could possibly agree in January may be a bit lower than what Rangers would be looking for in the summer when he will most definitely be sold.

1 hour ago, Sam-AVFC said:

Bit of a tangent, but if HMRC are successfully sued because of their cock up would the club have any interest in this, or not as it's a new entity with new owners? I have seen HMRC dispute they made any error and I admit I don't know enough to make a judgement on this, so just speaking hypothetically.

I guess FFP would stop you blowing any hypothetical funds on transfers anyway.

Your last post his attitude improving vastly this year makes me way more interested in the signing.

The Rangers chairman has previously spoken about merging the two, so he may have known about this. How feasible that is, I'm not sure. We are in a really good position at the moment both on and off the field, despite what many Celtic fans would have you believe. Hence we managed to spend £7M on signing Kent permanently.

With regards to Morelos, his attitude has vastly improved, he's not as confrontational when he receives a bad challenge, he is still playing with that fire but he's using it the right way. It's like he knows scoring goals will hurt them more than confronting them. He's got everything you would want or need in a striker, pace, power, aggression, vision, Awareness of everything around him. I accepted a while ago that we'll lose him, so I'm just enjoying him whilst I can. If and when he does leave, I would rather he go to Villa but if he keeps developing a the rate he is, I wouldn't rule out a big gun taking the chance on him. I know Man Utd and Spurs had scouts at the Porto away game. Now I don't believe they were there to specifically watch Morelos but he must have left an impression.

18 hours ago, Laughable Chimp said:

How much money would be considered "funny money" for Rangers?

Closer to the £30 million mark imo. Gerrard and the new sporting director (Ross Wilson who came from Southampton) have both said he's going nowhere in January. If we sold him, we're basically throwing away any chance we have of beating Celtic to the title imo.

With their fixture congestion, it's either gonna be a young team or a mix of experience and youth. So we have a great chance of progressing to the Semi's imo.

6 hours ago, zab6359 said:

Have a feeling that will be our only signing during this window. Morelos I reckon.

Well his price just went up further after last night, apparently Palace had scouts at the game watching him. Man Utd & Spurs scouts were there also, not looking at Morelos specifically but must have noted his performance. Ran Pepe ragged, albeit he is 36 now but still one of the better defenders in Europe.

Man Utd & Chelsea are both winnable games imo, although Chelsea are definitely improving under Lampard. Wolves and Newcastle are winnable as well. 3 wins out the next 6 would be good imo. Anything better would be a bonus.

It's crazy to think if we hadn't lost those 8 points from winning positions, we would be in the top 4 right now.

We've started this season incredibly well, yes it's been frustrating at points but if we start grinding out the wins, I'm sure we'll be well clear of relegation.

Wesley made the Fifa TOTW - 82 rated. Decent stats as well.