Rangers Capture Ortiz while Mcgregor and Whittiker sign contract extensions

monty junior wrote:Whats the point on constantly referring to league rankings. The fact is his team were relegated, he is then offered a chance to join a world renowned team who fill stadiums, play in the champions league and win trophies. Rangers have and always will be bigger than Almeria, this is a stepup, not in opposition terms but in expectations and psyche. Now he's trying to win things, living up to high expectations whilst im sure at Almeria those were relatively low.

Btw our league is 15th and was 7th only three years ago.

super_realist wrote:It's a big step back because:

A) Although Rangers may be a better team than Almeria, the league is of a much poorer standard. He is after all moving from playing in La Liga to SPL, you don't think that's a step backward?

B) Although his chances of European success at Rangers are no worse than at Almeria (both are no hopers) he's challenging himself against far poorer teams.
In spain he had Real, Barcelona, Betis, Mallorca, Seville, Athletico, Villareal etc, in Scotland he'll haveCeltic, Hearts, Hibs, Kilmarnock and Dunfermline, add to that he's got to play them a cringeworthy four times.

C) He's entering a league which has diminishing chances of bringing in money through TV rights, and so the quality is unlikely to improve whereas Spanish Football is going from strength to strength.

D) He'll be playing in front of relatively big crowds at Ibrox, only once a fortnight, the rest of the time it will be infront of 6-10k on average.

E) He's entering a league where some of the fans of the top two teams are entrenched in a return to childish, immature behaviour which has brought shame to the country in the last couple of years.

Mind you , if the money's right, who cares about all that?


I'll give him a year before he claims his wife can't settle in Glasgow.

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Derbyblue wrote:

Nay Bother wrote:by your logic and using the same rankings you use to get Scotland is the 16th ranked league in Europe,

Rangers are the 33 best ranked team in Europe as at the end of last season so to call them average is somewhat of a push.

And where were Almeria ranked? I assumed they weren't above 33?

They not even top 100.

super_realist wrote:

monty junior wrote:Whats the point on constantly referring to league rankings. The fact is his team were relegated, he is then offered a chance to join a world renowned team who fill stadiums, play in the champions league and win trophies. Rangers have and always will be bigger than Almeria, this is a stepup, not in opposition terms but in expectations and psyche. Now he's trying to win things, living up to high expectations whilst im sure at Almeria those were relatively low.

Btw our league is 15th and was 7th only three years ago.

I think you've answered your own question haven't you?
Rangers are world renowned in the way that Dukla Prague or Eintracht Franfurt are, i.e based entirely on history rather than being a big team in modern terms. No one in Europe fears anyone from our country, fewer rate it and I very much doubt that many foreign fans under the age of thirty even know anything about Scottish teams.

I sincerely doubt Rangers will qualify for the proper stages of the CL, this year or at any point in the future given how far the league has fallen in the coefficients.

So if the league has fallen from 7th to 15th in three short years, it's hardly a ringing endorsement is it?