Last week Keith Jackson praised the creative thinking of Peter Lawwell after the outgoing Celtic CEO responded to the promptings from agent Frank Trimboli to put in a phone call to the Australian guy managing Yokohama F Marionos.
The boss of the CAA Base agency is the main reason for Ange Postecoglou managing Celtic, not the guy that couldn’t see beyond Neil Lennon.Â
This week Jackson has turned his attention to the imaginative signing policy being operated out of Ibrox. Apparently Giovanni van Bronckhorst has been given the kitchen sink to throw at his recruitment drive.Â
Up until a week ago the message was all about the Player Trading Model implemented at Ibrox, based on Celtic’s business over the years with Postecoglou’s rebuild funded by selling Odsonne Edouard and Kris Ajer.Â
When your star asset brings in £6m from Southampton, less than 25^ of Kieran Tierney’s fee you need to spin things differently to explain signing two guys in their late twenties for a combined cost of £1.8m. Abracadabra we have the Imaginative Signing Policy explained to Daily Record readers:Â
Often the trickiest part of negotiating a sane path through any transfer window is resisting the temptation to jump to conclusions.Â
It wasn’t much more than a week ago after all that some Rangers fans were becoming all angsty over their club’s apparent lack of activity in the early days of the market. And yet here we all are, in the second week of July, watching Giovanni van Bronckhorst suddenly throw the kitchen sink at what is his first proper recruitment drive as Ibrox boss.Â
The imaginative, cut price captures of Antonio Colak and Tom Lawrence have lit a fire under the Dutchman’s summer and now it seems likely that van Bronckhorst and director of football Ross Wilson are only just getting started.
If French playmaker Angelo Fulgini and Welsh wing man Rabbi Matondo also arrive at Auchenhowie over the course of the next few days then the Dutchman – and his head of hiring and firing – will have significantly strengthened the club’s attacking armoury ahead of the new campaign.Â
In 2011 Ally McCoist launched a similar signing policy, snapping up Lee Wallace, Matt McKay, Juan Ortiz and Dorin Goian among others.
Alfredo Morelos, Ryan Kent, Filip Helader, Nicky Katic, Scott Arfield, Ryan Jack, Steve Davis and Allan McGregor have less than 12 months on board the Imaginative Signing Policy.Â
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— Football Scotland (@Football_Scot) July 10, 2022
These are imaginative signing…it takes some imagination to believe they’ll help the scum get any better….
Over the last couple of years we were told by the very same people like Jackson and others in the SMSM “you have to get your signings in early” CELTIC were criticized for not doing so . Now those very same people like Jackson and others in the SMSM are saying “the rangers” have plenty of time . These people have no shame. They must think we have forgotten
Remember the kitchen sink is full of dirty dishes. And bits of soggy newspapers.
Imaginative! That’s the adjective word the Daily Record have opened their new week of reporting all the Rangers stories,.erf! Quite appropriate really as it imagines itself to be a respected media outlet. It imagines it’s glorified typist employees as wordsmiths.It imagines it is at the cutting edge of valid news stories. So to that extent, yes it is definitely imaginative! Har har har dee har har!!!