Right now, I’m not convinced Rangers should be rushing into selling players just because there’s a bit of noise around value and “profit”. The simple truth is we’re not sitting with a bench full of ready-made replacements. If you sell before you’re properly set up to replace, you’re asking for trouble.
And it’s not just numbers. It’s the risk that comes with any new signing. Even good players can take time to settle in Glasgow, to settle into the pace of our football, the expectation, the scrutiny, the lot. If you move someone on and bring in a replacement who needs months to get up to speed, you’ve maybe made the club money, but you’ve made the team weaker in the here and now.
Squad depth matters more than tidy accounts
I get why folk like the idea of “cash in while you can”. If players improve, their value rises and you can do business from a stronger position. If they don’t, you risk missing that window. That’s football.
But you don’t make these calls in a vacuum. Coaches see them every day. They’ll have a far better feel for whether someone is still trending upward, whether they’re learning the role, and whether their ceiling is actually close or if there’s more to come. Supporters judge on Saturdays. Staff judge on the other six days too. That matters.
Keep Thelwell chat for transfer windows
On the wider recruitment chat, I’d park the Thelwell conversations until we’re actually at a point where business can be done. It’s fine to debate structure and who’s responsible for what, but Rangers tend to drive themselves mad with hypotheticals when the real issue is what’s in the building right now and how it’s being used.
That said, if we’re talking about who deserves credit, then it has to be consistent. There’s been plenty of times people wanted Purdy out the door, yet there’s an argument that some of the scouting work and the groundwork on certain signings came from that side of things. If there’s profit potential in a few of the players brought in under that watch, then you can’t pretend it happened by accident.
Who really pushed the deals through?
Another part of this that gets brushed aside is the manager’s influence. The chat often swings between “recruitment signed them” and “the manager demanded them”. Truth is it can be both. If Martin was pushing for certain purchases, then he’s part of that chain too, and it’s fair to acknowledge it even if it annoys some folk.
The point isn’t to hand out medals. It’s to be honest about how decisions are made at Rangers. If someone did the search and someone else insisted the deal got done, then credit, and blame, is shared. That’s how a football club works. The important bit now is not ripping the squad apart before we’ve got the replacements sitting there, ready to go.
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