The January 2015 Transfer Window thread

[TCO]

If they can afford it, Moyes should definitely move for Lee Presley.

[Hobo]

Richard Gough.

[Rich]

Paul Gascoigne

[TCO]

They never played for Harchester :/

[Rich]

Clyde Connelly

[Lineker]

Rangers manager Kenny McDowall claims he has been told by the club's hierarchy that he must play the five loan signings made from Newcastle.

Midfielders Gael Bigirimana and Haris Vuckic, defenders Kevin Mbabu and Remie Streete and left-sided Northern Ireland cap Shane Ferguson joined on Monday.

McDowall says he has been told by chief executive Derek Llambias and football board chairman Sandy Easdale that the quintet must start every game.

Rangers play Raith Rovers on Sunday.

[stokeriño]

Christ.

[Mad Jack]

Mike Ashley's involvement in Rangers is fucking horrible.

[TCO]

I don't know how true any of that is but I assume a lot of them are an upgrade of on Rangers' existing squad anyway. I have no idea what their players are like but I'd like to think Vuckic, Bigi and Ferguson are well above the 2nd tier in Scotland.

[Colly]

I can't imagine how bad it must be as a manager to be forced to play Haris Vuckic. Other than that I don't give a toss...

[Thrilla]

Surely there is no way to actually enforce that though? If the manager didn't do it and was subsequentally sacked, the LMA would get him a massive payout.

Although I don't know if the LMA cover Scottish football but I if not I imagine there is an equivilant body.

[Kaney]

Well, the manager has already tendered his notice before this even happened so I don't really know how it would affect him if he refused.

[Lineker]

I suppose in that situation they would place him on gardening leave, paying him until the end of the season, while replacing him with the next coach down the totem pole.

[Dynamite]

McCoist is already on gardening leave and sticking another manager on gardening leave would just add extra costs getting a new one in - money that Rangers don't have. So Ashley would loan them some more, gain even more power, and the cycle repeats itself.

[Colly]

Someone would end up with a cracking garden though.

[Thrilla]

AC Milan's new stadium most likely.

[Gazz]

I hope he does, I'm sixth in line for the Rangers job after the branch manager of Sports Direct Glasgow and could use a bit of extra cash.

Do it for a week, tender my resignation and start planting some spring flowers and trimming that hedge I've been meaning to do since August.

All for £5,000 a week.

[Adam]

How are they even allowed to do that? Surely it is more evidence for the SFA that Ashley's involvement in Rangers contravenes their rules on dual-club ownership?

Utter nonsense, I wish someone would step in. I don't think there are any rules set out by the Premier League/F.A. on owning multiple clubs across different nations is there?

[Lineker]

For what it's worth, Llambias has come out now and publically denied it.

[Gazz]

Llambias once publicly declared water isn't wet.

Absolute sham of a man.