The morning after the night before things are looking increasingly bleak for Derek McInnes.
Bleaker than four matches without a win on the back on a new manager bounce.
Four goals scored- two Own Goals, a penalty and one from Thelo Aasgaard.
Bleaker than being categorised as the Scottish Jurgen Klopp by your CEO. The former Vice Chairman of St Mirren.
McInnes has made nine signings so far. Centered around the uber-staunch duo of Lawrence Shankland and Young Ross McCrorie.
Last night a tenth signing was watching the Europa League exit to Jagiellonia.
A £6m Moroccan ace from PSV Eindhoven. Someone better than Antman and Gassama, on a par with Scotland star Findlay Curtis.
Except something very strange has happened to Couhaib Driouech.
From the Directors Box he watched his new team-mates stumble out of the Europa League.
This morning he discovered that he failed his Ibrox medical.
John Hartson did the same at the previous club. Ron de Boer and Daniel Prodan passed their Rangers medicals.
Rangers will not complete a £7million move for Couhaib Driouech and the deal is now off due to an injury. Personal terms were agreed.
Rangers will now move on to other targets. The defeat to Jagiellonia had no impact on the Driouech situation.https://t.co/plYmDig562
— Chris Jack (@Chris_Jack89) August 14, 2026
Remarkably Chris Jack managed to get that detailed tweet published while appearing live on the Rangers Review podcast. Host Derek Clark wasn’t convinced by the reason given for the deal falling through.
Bosz over het klappen van de transfer van Driouech naar Rangers FC: “Een verrassing. De clubs waren eruit. Ik was verrast.”
— Rik Elfrink (@RikElfrink) August 14, 2026
TRANSLATION: Boss on the collapse of Driouech’s transfer to Rangers FC: “A surprise. The clubs had agreed. I was surprised.”
Not just the breaking news but the reason behind it.
Of course the failed medical. It has nothing to do with losing out on a Europa League Play Off.
Absolutely not.
MCINNES FAILURE COSTS CAVENAGH MILLIONS
A place in the Europa League guarantees around £11m and four home matches.
The Europa League guarantees about £3m and three home matches.
Clearly Andrew Cavenagh has had second thoughts.
He has watched the loyal bears chase Russell Martin and Danny Rohl out the club.
Despite his staunch credentials McInnes is well down that route.
His team and squad are a clear downgrade on what Martin and Rohl served up.
Next up for McWinless is matches against St Mirren then Jablonec home and away.
No European football is a real possibility.
And at that point even the most obedient messengers are bound to start questioning their sources.
i say bring back tavpen not as an upgrade just to cheer the celtic supporters up even more lol
I watched their game last night and they were rank rotten – at least the Polish team had a clearly defined playing style, nice neat triangles, although they were a bit carefree in playing out from the goalkeeper and were caught out, but not punished by Sevco’s front three, on a couple of occasions. Shankhill looks slower than a week in jail btw.
McKlopp ball eventually results in hoofing it up the park and hoping to profit from the knock down.
I’m not sure how good the PSV winger is, but hearing he has knocked them back after watching last night’s display, as opposed to failing a medical, it would be funny if Celtic were to hijack the deal and sign him,- just like they used to do to us back in the day. I’m enjoying their misery. Long may it continue.
Just seen the medical report.
His flask was broken.
Off ye f##k son…..
Little does he know the bullet he has just missed….
He failed the medical after they discovered there was a problem with his fingers – somebody slammed the lid of a cigar box down on them, apparently……
The best player for the Polish club was Mr Sheen,you could say it was a polished performance from the away team.
You will still get auld Spew Heevins doubling down on sevco doing the quadruple.
To have 4 goals in meaningful games this season,2 being own goals 1 being a dodgy penalty and the other by their so called new saviour in transfer terms Asshole Assgard,then they are Friar Tucked.
But not to worry Gerrard will get a mention once again and come to the rescue.
Not!
Sitting back with the popcorn. Loving the latest episode of the banter years.
“…Bleaker than being categorised as the Scottish Jurgen Klopp by your CEO. The former Vice Chairman of St Mirren…”
And the footy chants write themselves.
If the Buddies take the lead at ibrox on Sunday:
“One Jurgen KIopp,
there’s only one Jurgen Klopp!
etc…” 🙂
And IF sevco dropped the transfer for non-medical reasons,
that would be well dodgy: creating a perception that the player is ‘damaged goods’?
Wouldn’t exactly help his future transfer options?
Lol,a team of stuntmen dressed up for Halloween as Partick Thistle players.
Jackson , McDermott , Newport from the Daily Record and Andy Devlin from The Sun in a crisis meeting all afternoon to work out how to put a positive spin on this