Soccer Football - Europa League - Semi Final - Second Leg - Rangers v RB Leipzig - Ibrox, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - May 5, 2022 Rangers' Scott Arfield celebrates after reaching the final Action Images via Reuters/Lee Smith
Scott Arfield has provided a hilarious assessment of Barry Ferguson’s squad as the reality of failure sinks in around Ibrox and the need for yet another summer Revolution.
Of the current squad the Daily Record columnist only wants to retain 10 players consisting of a strange mix of serial losers and untried starlets like Bailey Rice and Oscar Cortes.
Excitement over the fakeover and a run to the last eight of the Europa League has provided a distraction from the squad accumulated by the annual Revolutions as new managers bring in their own men to improve on the flops that they inherited.
James Tavernier sums up the state of squad mis-management, heading into his Testimonial Match without a trophy to parade around the stadium.
The Rangers stick or twist report card to avoid another year in Celtic shadow as 11 names under threat | Scott Arfield??https://t.co/Y65NPV6gmh pic.twitter.com/1QFTsp6fQz
— Daily Record Sport (@Record_Sport) April 24, 2025
Under the heading KEEP- Arfield lists Jack Butland, John Souttar, Nico Raskin, James Tavernier, Cortes, Connor Barron, Clinton Nsiala, Dujon Sterling, Leon Balogun, Liam Kelly, Rice and Vaclav Cerny.
Everyone else can either be sold if the price is right or been told that it is time up, unfortunately with contracts running through next season Rabbi Matondo, Ben Davies, Kieran Dowell and Jose Cifuentes will all be back in the summer to drain the wage bill.
The Keep list includes Cerny who can’t be kept since he is on loan, two goalkeepers, Balogun who is out of contract, Souttar and Tavernier have a year left on their contracts while Nsiala, Barron, Rice and Cortes can barely get a game in a team that lost five matches in a row at Ibrox.
Sporting Director Kevin Thelwell will have a key role to play but as they discovered with Todd Cantwell, Connor Goldson and others you can’t force players to move on for pay cuts elsewhere.
The five dead rubbers start on Saturday away to St Mirren with the Paisley side looking for their third successive win over Tavernier & Co.
What a FANNY,you would think when that pish he put out there about keeping players for next season the editor would have pulled the plug on the article when he mentioned Cerny for next season,the bald eagle is onloan.
Now some bigot going by the name Andy Mason(you can just imagine free before the Mason part in the name)has made a Columbo special guest star appearance in the Daily Mail apparently he is a businessman living in Dubai but originally from Scotland and a season book holder at sevco,he is bragging about being the middleman to bring the full bhona deal to ibrox.
This has all the hallmarks of Chico Green and Criag Whyte touch about it,all of a sudden there allsorts of James Hunts coming out of the woodwork looking to earn a coin,seeing what can be cut up and what slice of the pie they can get.
So just where was Andy (free)Mason in October when this was apparently ready to take over and kick in with the FAKEOVER.
Once again all these names being floated and touted about from all around the world,interview after interview from people in America to chancers in Dubai,and yet there is a guy here in Glasgow with a 12% stake in the klub and nobody can get near him for an interview on his take on all of this.
And to think they let these Scottish ARSEHOLE journalists near SCISSORS.
Jackass Jackson will not be best pleased with this Andy Masonnguy showing up all of a sudden,he never got one mention in any of the FAKE NEWS articles that the BOOZE JOCKEY has been pushingbout there.
Maybe someone has been economical with the truth to JAKEBALL JACKSON.
The journalist across the water has been very quiet lately on the FAKEOVER,what’s happened to his man inside ibrox who is apparently in the know and keeps the journalist across the water up to date with everything,surely the guys not peddling FAKE NEWS from a made up source.
Im probably wrong but all this pish about a takeover without a single shred of actual evidence that something is going on reeks to me of a pre cursor to some very very very bad news coming down the pipe.
Could a failed takeover be the excuse for a failed club?
It would never have happened if……type of thing?
Can only dream I suppose.
Imagine being alive as a Celtic fan having seen the success we have…and them dying twice.
A current Falkirk FC player employed by the daily Record to talk nothing but theRangers ! I’ll bet his bosses at Falkirk are positively delighted for him that his priorities lie elsewhere rather than his full time job ? No doubt he will come up with a new ditty on his geetar for his second employer at the rag tabloid …
Same with Halliday on Clyde Superscoreboard Valentines…
Always bumming up and protecting Sevco when he’s on –
And what do The Motherwell fans say – Fuck all…
Actually they probably do but won’t get by the selected vetting procedures…
But is the host not a ‘Motherwell’ fan… Hmmmmmmmm !
Hi Joe,
I‘m shaking in my boots at the thought of the Sevco Galacticos but he mentioned Barron. Have they actually bought him or is it still in arbitration?
Cheers and keep up the good work.
Thanks from the Dresden CSC ?
Editor: Barron has been paid for, presumably. Deal concluded by SFA in January, seems like Arfield has forgot incoming star Lyall Cameron of Dundee.
Always despised that cunt he tried to snap Ryan Christies leg in the final when fatty missed the pen
Not that I thought it at the time due to shredded nerves Harold, but they totally battered us that day and still lost…
Came up against The Brick Wall time and time again, Christopher Jullien nicks a goal for us, possibly offside by a pubic hair, but we still got it, Ryan Jack howling in the rain, The Sevco Hun Hoards howling to the moon in the rain, and getting soaked all the way home…
Aye indeed – Days like that are beautiful to look back on when you know you’ve won !
With regards new peepil buying in to debtco 2012
One thing is surely clear the old regime cannot keep funding the money pit at ibrokes
Somethings got to give .
No sooner had investor fatigue set in then the vulture capitalist began circling.
Kings moonbeam about front loading capital to win one league and Celtic folding like a house of cards has backfired spectaculary.
This has all the hallmarks of minty seeing no way to recover the situation and dumping the old club and skip dodge .
King n co will cut n run and never look back
Joe, do you know if the onerous contracts are still kicking around? If so, are they administration proof?