Originally published at: https://www.rangersnews.uk/news/is-signing-best-of-the-rest-the-way-to-scottish-premiership-for-rangers/
Signing the “best-of-the-rest” is a tactic which has been employed by the Old Firm for years. Ever since Rangers and Celtic exerted their stranglehold in Scottish football they’ve been poaching the best players in Scotland with the lure of big money and big crowds. And why not? It’s a tried and tested formula. Some of…
Only players that could represent scotland are Jack, Halliday, McGregor, middleton, and McCrorie. McGregor has hung up his boots the others are not playing frequently enough or well enough to displace others playing in their positions. In order to improve we could bring in Robertson, McTominay etc but I dont think we could afford them the other guys being picked from Scottish teams are mainly from Celtic. If we bought the best of the rest particularly scottish players what striker would be better than Morelos what winger better than Kent or Candyass what defender better than Goldson or Tavernier And what Goalie better than what we have already. What we need is players stepping up to the plate, Gerrard playing a settled side and more consistency, we can hammer Kilie and beat Celtic that has already been proved this season. Buying other best of the rest players will in my opinion not solve consistency and the chopping and changing of the team. Also injuries and bans have contributed to our lack of wins and needs to be addressed but so has in my opinion too much changes in defence and midfield. Scottish international players are too expensive other than the ones that are in squad but will probably not play such as mcginn and shinnie. Even these guys may not be affordable.
Hastie, Halkett and Shinnie would all be Scottish players on frees who would be ready to challenge for a place in the 18.
That way we can save transfer fees for a creative No 10
I dont think they are any better than what we have we still have murphy and docherty to come back. If Gers bring in players I feel they need to be playing at a higher level than the so called best of the rest. Players with european and international experience. Barasic and Grezda I feel will come good but they need consistency and a run of games in a settled side. A formation to include Dafoe and or Lafferty with morelos should be given a go in a 442 especially at Ibrox. We have the players but too many changes and lack of settled team is our downfall, if players come in they must be better with euro and international experience…a like for like replacement such as shinnie for jack is just daft.