davulsukur

Good start..... I guess Nyambe will be played there if needed. Lenny and Mulgrew for the first few games then

Is that other lad still on trial with us?

As always, we can only wait and see how he does at Reading and how we do without him.

Clutching a straws a bit on that one. The gap between the rich and poor clubs is getting bigger and bigger. And money does all the talking. If Man City came in for Travis, we wouldn't see him for dust. And who could blame him? Possibly a once in a lifetime chance to play alongside some of the best players in the world, in the top league, playing champions league football, winning trophies, under the best manager in the game and getting paid a kings ransom to do so, setting him up for life. The days of true loyalty are gone in football. At best, they'd come back in the twilight of their career and play for the club they support again. Don't get me wrong, someone like Travis turning round and saying he's a huge Rovers fan, becomes one of the best midfielders in the game and stays here for his whole career, rejecting big money moves along the way, would be incredible. Sadly, it just won't happen.

You've always had a weird thing for Coyle, never understood why. He is a truly fucking abysmal manager.

Now that, is amazing news.

He is back, i think. He posted a couple of pages back

If he persists with Benno at right back, this lad will be recalled by Xmas.

Eh? For real?

Happy to loan this lad but Mowbray has a history of not playing loan players or not playing them in their correct position. If he is our only defensive reinforcement, he needs to be good enough to be playing most weeks.

It looks like (to me at least) we've sold Raya to bring in some money and that money will be spent/has been spent on a striker (Gally) and a CB (yet to be determined). We obviously still need a keeper and i suspect it will be a loan to buy, so it basically comes out of next seasons budget.

I think it was pretty much universally accepted that the number 1 priority was a new first choice centre back to come in, alongside Lenihan and push Mulgrew & Williams down the pecking order (or out altogether). I appreciate that you need to get players in when they become available but we aren't going to move forward unless the defensive frailties are resolved.

I think the first bit is correct. As for what else is to come, god only knows.

Hes taken Bell, Dack and Graham off. Buckley, BB and Rothwell all on. Who's at left back?

You can watch the game for £12!! On Rangers TV I think

I'd think it's more to do with getting minutes in for those players. Downing, Johnson, Evan's, Mulgrew haven't featured a great deal in the pre season games so far I don't think.

We don't win on the opening day under Venkys. So 1-1, leading until the 93rd minute.

Any idea when we will actually sign the keeper?

Borderline criminal that we haven't replaced Raya yet and will be even worse if we allow our top targets to go elsewhere. Season is closing in fast.

Just read an interview with Mowbray on the Rovers website, where he says with Bell and Williams soon to be back fit, it will probably see Hart go out on loan again. We can scratch off any ideas of signing a new LB i would think, Seems like TM is happy with those 2 options, possibly keeping Hart if the other 2 struggle for fitness

You can't play Dack in the position above, that needs to be holding mid. He would be in Grahams position as the false 9. If you're looking at Liverpool, they have Keita--Henderson--Fabinho across the middle. Liverpool also have astonishingly good full backs who contribute an awful lot to the attack. Keita and Fabinho presumably adopt a more defensive mindset to cover in when the full backs bomb forward. Even taking things relatively (as in, i know we aren't playing at the same level as Liverpool) our full backs are no where near good enough to adopt that role. To be honest i don't think we have the players in pretty much any position to adopt this style. It would also require a really high level of fitness if we are to be constantly pressing when out of possession, something that has been criticised a lot in the past.

Good to hear that the keeper situation is close to being resolved.

I don't think we've released squad numbers yet. For preseason games, I think they are just given any number.

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