Barry Ferguson is expecting Borna Barisic and John Lundstram to put their bodies on the line to bring a second SPFL title to Ibrox!
As he has probably read in his Daily Record those two players have signed deals to join Trabzonspor next season with just the May pay day to pick up before they collect their P45s and officially check out of Ibrox.
As every Record reader knows Ferguson spends 24 hours a day thinking of trophies arriving at Ibrox as he recalls how he put his body on the line playing for his beloved blue jersey and the tax free payments going into offshore Trusts.
Except when he walked away to join Blackburn in 2003 then repeated that manoeuvre for Birmingham City in 2009.
Record readers are treated to a weekly diet of how committed Ferguson was to the cause, recently he has been overdosing with references to being in the trenches but today he delivers a verdict of trust on the players about to check out for the last time.
In trademark fashion, clearly forgetting last season’s contributions from Alfredo Morelos and Ryan Kent, Fergie puts his trust in Lundstram and Barisic:
Don’t leave a place like this with regrets, leave it with memories. That has to be the mindset for the next three weeks or so. So I look at the speculation around mainstays like Borna Barisic, John Lundstram, James Tavernier, Connor Goldson and even big Jack Butland and I honestly don’t think for a single second that these guys will be focussed on anything else.
Obviously there are a few others who are probably going to be on the way out too. But, if anything, that should bind them all even more tightly together for what’s left of the current campaign.
Did you see, for example, the way Barisic celebrated the winner from Cyriel Dessers at St Mirren at the weekend? He was very nearly half way up the stairs of the stand with the ultras in the away end! Did that look like a man whose heart is no longer in it?
He’s already got his next deal all but tied up with Trabsonspor but the joy was written all over his face when that ball hit the back of the net. So don’t tell me that it doesn’t matter any more to these guys. That’s just bull s***! Of course it matters.
And, if this is the end for some of them, then it will never have mattered more. I know how it felt when it was happening to me. Yes, I made the choice of moving to Blackburn the first time around. It’s fair to say the decision was made for me the next time, when I left for Birmingham
But the feeling inside my stomach was the same. I would never say a bad word about either of those clubs because I was made to feel welcome by both of them and made a lot of great friends. I even did manage to get my hands on another piece of silverware when Birmingham won the League Cup against all the odds. But the truth is it just wasn’t the same as playing and winning things for Rangers.
And it’s going to be similar for a lot of the guys who might be nearing the end of their time at Ibrox. Wherever comes next, it’ll almost certainly never feel like this again – the demands, the pressure, the sheer intensity of it all – no other place comes close.
So my message to these guys is straight forward. Seize this opportunity to go out on a high with two more trophies in the cabinet because this will be your last chance to win a clean sweep.
The good news for Ferguson is that outside of the Record Sports Desk there is no interest anywhere in megabucks deals for Tavernier, Goldson or Butland.
The feeling inside my stomach is another of Ferguson’s calling cards, by the end of this month print sales of the Record are expected to be just over 50,000 per day.
What the actual fuck is it about these modern Scottish Sevco players and ‘trenches’ – ‘wars’ – etc etc…
Especially as their actual wartime players were well known draft dodgers that were anywhere but ‘trenches’
And what a nice wee woolly and fluffy way to put it that the decision was made for him to go in 2009 –
Aye by The Excise net closing in…
Aye a desperate attempt to rally the ‘troops’
Hopefully it’ll only rally the ‘oops’ or better still The ‘Hoops’ !
i’m sure those he is alluding to with his patronizing bullsh!t will be grateful for his advice , whilst barasic and loonstrum have know for a while now that they would have been off the books a lot earlier if sevco had their way , there was no new contract waiting for them or reward if they won the league , it was good luck and thanks for the memories , kent and moroless were messed about by sevco as well , it’s what sevco do best !!
Yeah Bazza, they’ll get right in aboot it, they’ve both just signed their last big, two year contract worth £3.5m wae a conditional provision that you arrive uninjured…..
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Backwards Barry is another moron targeting the Rectum’s reader base ie more morons.
did the sevco player get booked for going halfway up the stand ?
I seem to remember during his playing days, wee Barry armband told of regular stomach problems caused by all the painkillers he was taking just to carry on playing for his beloved Rainjurz. If he has a feeling in his stomach, he should probably get himself down the quacks.
Barisic was only celebrating because it meant a win bonus, so Baz in your own favourite words, SHUTTIT YA FUD
Barry Fud! He’d have been a train driver if he could nae use his feet!