The Nando’s Generation, Deadwood and Bright New Prospects

17 06 2013

This summer’s signings at Ibrox have opened up a lot of debate between Rangers fans over social media and on the forums.

A vast majority of us also want to see the expensive deadwood currently infesting the squad at Rangers to be shown the door pronto.

Players like Kyle Hutton, Kal Naismith, Darren Cole and Ross Perry need to be ousted from Ibrox with immediate effect.

The Four Fuds, as I like to categorise them, are not good enough to be playing in the famous blue jersey. Simple.

Their attitudes towards game preparation and training just reeks of a total lack of professionalism. Something that’s never been acceptable at Rangers.

Also, the Twitter antics of those above four have left much to be desired for by Rangers fans.

Moving on to the likes of Ian Black and Emilson Cribari…

Ian Black had a decent few seasons with Hearts. An average player who’d put a shift in every game.

But to pay him the money that Rangers currently do is absolutely criminal.

Personally, I’d like to see the back of him. But, with the contract that he has at Rangers, I very much doubt he’ll be moving on anytime soon.

Emilson Cribari. Well, all I’m going to say is this: How the fuck did this guy once cost Lazio a transfer fee of £5 million and play in the UEFA Champions League?

Never mind the match-fixing, THAT must be the biggest scandal in Italian football history.

One guy who looks more certain to leave by the day is Neil Alexander. It’s a shame that he’s leaving us, in my opinion.

A good goalkeeper, with international caps and a UEFA Cup Final appearance to his name. He done us all proud and stuck by the Club during the dark days of administration, and then liquidation.

His loyalty and commitment will never be forgotten amongst the Ibrox legions.

But it’s probably right that he moves on. The wage he was being paid was far too high for our level of football.

Anything over £10,000 p/w in the lower leagues is dangerous.

I do wish the best of luck to Alexander though, wherever he ends up.

Cammy Bell will be a great replacement for Neil Alexander in the Rangers goal.

Bell has been capped at full international level and already has a League Cup medal in his back pocket.

His performance in the 2012 Scottish League Cup Final against Celtic grabbed him the honour as ‘Man Of The Match’ and his saves ensured that Kilmarnock picked up the Cup that day.

To the outfield signings we’ve made… Steven Smith and Nicky Law. Two, good decent players in their own positions.

Law will most certainly be in the starting XI every teamsheet. His form for Motherwell in recent seasons and his experience from playing in Europe can only help the team.

Smith is a tricky one though. Taking into account that we have released him once before and his history on the Auchenhowie treatment table, I can’t seem to see where he’s going to fit into the team.

Most fans see him as potential back-up to Lee Wallace but with our state-of-the-art youth academy, do we really need a back-up that’s so expensive in wages?

I can’t see Wallace moving on either. He had his chance last summer if he wanted to. His young family are very settled in Glasgow and I can’t see him wanting to uproot.

Also, he recently signed a new five-year contract, so he seems to be very commited to the Club.

Moving on to the widely unknown lad that is Arnold Peralta.

I’ll be totally honest. I don’t know much about him. I do know that he’s been capped at full level for the Honduras national side. He’s a defensive midfielder who can also utulise at right-back.

He comes to us from a club called CDS Vida and is apparenly a bright, young spark in his country’s national team.

Now, our new strikers.

Nicky Clark looks to be so far the bargain of summer. Over 40 goals for Queen of the South last season has brought a lot of optimism about for the young man.

His dad Sandy had a spell with the Club in the 1980s and he’s a Bellshill boy just like Barry Ferguson and Stevie Smith.

Playing for a club that’s as big as Rangers can only be good for him and he’ll be thrilled to play in front of our record-breaking crowds next season.

Let’s just hope he gets deployed as a striker and isn’t left to rot out on the wings.

Lastly, Jon Daly.

In my opinion, it’s a complete waste of money. An aging striker with no sell-on value and he’s on a wage that could be better spent elsewhere around the squad.

We already have Andrew Little, Lee McCulloch and Kane Hemmings as strikers. Adding Nicky Clark to that group would have made us set for next season.

Daly is just another piece of over-rated, expensive deadwood that shouldn’t be at Rangers.

We should be planning ahead for the future. Players like Kevin Kyle, Francisco Sandaza and Emilson Cribari stifled opportunities for our youngsters last season.

Now Jon Daly can add to the list of reasons as to why they’re getting splinters in their arses on our bench.

Hopefully now though, Ally can find a couple of solid, natural defenders and we should be all set for Stage Two.

Here’s to a bright new season and becoming another step closer to where we rightfully belong!

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18 06 2013
Craig

Dont think it matters who is signed as ally has not got a scooby doo and proved this by not winning the fish and chip cup

15 07 2013
William Cahill

A bit harder to win cups when the Scottish footballing authorities ensure that your hands have been tied behind your back. Such as the illegal transfer embargo that was blackmailed upon us. Last season, we were a Third Division club. Too many people expected too much from a team that was practically thrown together with no pre-season preparations. Ally is doing a job that most of us would find hectic. If anyone at all thinks that they could do a better job, they should step up instead of just speaking up.

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