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By Thursday afternoon, Rangers should have a clear idea where they stand and it is then that they will look to the loan market - something Warnock has never been overly keen to do - if attempts to tie up at least one permanent deal come to nothing.
A loan signing is a possibility in any case, but it will become a priority if a striker cannot be signed outright.
As for strikers, Warnock can afford to wait as he’s signed players in other areas, and in Taarabt has an expected signing who has already been at QPR so shouldn‘t need to settle in.
A sign of how dismally the club has fared was that, at the end of last season, despite having spent an astronomical amount and signed a ridiculous number of players, they were still looking for people in key positions. That tells its own story.
After spending so much and signing so many, to still be trying to improve the squad at that stage would have been bad enough. But Rangers were still trying to sort the team out.
Warnock has addressed that by bringing in a goalkeeper and signing players in both full-back positions, as well as getting a hugely experienced midfielder in Shaun Derry and extra forward options in Mackie and Clarke.
What happened at Rangers before his arrival is nothing to do with him. And he’s now in the relatively comfortable position of having improved the side with plenty of money left to get a quality striker or two.
But that doesn’t change the fact that after massive spending and a huge turnover of players since 2007, Rangers will be 48 hours away from their third season since the takeover still needing players not just to improve the squad, but to come straight into the team and play on Saturday. That’s inexcusable.
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IMO very well put.
Some edited highlights:
By Thursday afternoon, Rangers should have a clear idea where they stand and it is then that they will look to the loan market - something Warnock has never been overly keen to do - if attempts to tie up at least one permanent deal come to nothing.
A loan signing is a possibility in any case, but it will become a priority if a striker cannot be signed outright.
As for strikers, Warnock can afford to wait as he’s signed players in other areas, and in Taarabt has an expected signing who has already been at QPR so shouldn‘t need to settle in.
A sign of how dismally the club has fared was that, at the end of last season, despite having spent an astronomical amount and signed a ridiculous number of players, they were still looking for people in key positions. That tells its own story.
After spending so much and signing so many, to still be trying to improve the squad at that stage would have been bad enough. But Rangers were still trying to sort the team out.
Warnock has addressed that by bringing in a goalkeeper and signing players in both full-back positions, as well as getting a hugely experienced midfielder in Shaun Derry and extra forward options in Mackie and Clarke.
What happened at Rangers before his arrival is nothing to do with him. And he’s now in the relatively comfortable position of having improved the side with plenty of money left to get a quality striker or two.
But that doesn’t change the fact that after massive spending and a huge turnover of players since 2007, Rangers will be 48 hours away from their third season since the takeover still needing players not just to improve the squad, but to come straight into the team and play on Saturday. That’s inexcusable.
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IMO very well put.
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