Forgive me, I’m going to say not a £30m career.Sure Christian went on to sign for PSG and had a decent career in Europe. Maybe played in Turkey at one point too?
Just realised his history was listed earlier in the thread. Least I was right.
Magnificent longtime, you should be sectioned for that!Did he not play at the Edmiston Club before then ?
Only a few will get it.Magnificent longtime, you should be sectioned for that!
As long as you and me are on the same wavelength old pal! Chris is a Bear as well of course. Saw him a few times back in the day, Blantyre Miners, Fir Park Club etc. Great turn (you‘re right, I’m even SOUNDING like an old bugger!)Only a few will get it.
Us old buggers !!
Jetting in.£8m IIRC.
The classic "terms agreed, fee agreed, everything agreed, just need the paperwork rubberstamped and it's done" Murray deal.
See Rebrov, Sergiy for further details.
Never scored many, but could hold a tuneDid he not play at the Edmiston Club before then ?
Nah, that’s Chris McClure
I thought the OP was talking about this legend for a sec (one for older bears) who oddly enough was born in Ibrox
That’s really a blast from the past. I loved getting the Rangers news , I can still smell the glossy paper it was printed on back then , man how times have changed and not always for the better. Simpler times
Interesting that the report makes it sound as if Murray had all but concluded the deal without Advocaat’s involvement (as he reportedly did with Colin Hendry).Passed around like a scudbook.
Murray's obsession with spending £10m on a striker was purely for vanity. He really didn't care who it was, it was all about the 8 digit fee.
Interesting that the report makes it sound as if Murray had all but concluded the deal without Advocaat’s involvement (as he reportedly did with Colin Hendry).
I have no recollection of this actually, but was it a case that after ‘watching him in action’ the Dutchman decided he wasn’t for us?
Did he not play at the Edmiston Club before then ?
…for showdown talks!Jetting in.
How much of a cunt was David Murray? I mean, seriously? He treated the fanbase with such contempt.
We went for some big names, allegedly. Shevchenko, Rebrov, Tamudo, Christ even Hartson was in that bracket for the big name striker. We ended up with Flo, no harm to the big guy but he was nowhere near the calibre nor the style of striker that we wanted or needed at that time. Tamudo for me would have been perfect for us. Murray just saw anything big name related as a vanity project for him.
Great at the time to see the club shuffling in with the big boys in Europe, but in hindsight he was killing us.
Plus the headline in the News was a bit clickbait style too. £30m Brazilian, when it was only £10m?
I get what your saying, I was happy with Flo at the time but in hindsight it looked very much like a panic buy from Murray just to satisfy this weird urge he had to buy a £10m+ player to impress Advocaat.I was buzzing when we signed Flo to be fair, he felt like a huge signing, he had been scoring goals against Man U often, Barca in the CL, didn't feel like any kind of let down v some of the names we had been linked with. I would expect that at that time most knew far more about him than they did Rebrov or Tamudo for instance and he had looked a far better player than Hartson and achieved more than him, be a bit like us signing Werner now rather than Antonio for instance is a sort of weirdoish comparison, that probably doesn't entirely work but sort of doesish.
The footnote is actually quite interesting too.On the Brazilian Christian, the 21-year-old whom the Rangers chairman David Murray had claimed a few weeks ago would be brought to Rangers, Advocaat gave little encouragement.
"His Brazilian club want a lot of money for him," he said, "and, for that kind of cash, you would have to watch him five or six times in proper circumstances."
Rangers and Hearts denied
Dick Advocaat, the Rangers coach, yesterday called off his pursuit of Stephane Guivarc'h, Newcastle's unwanted striker, when the Frenchman made it clear that he had no desire to play in Scotland.www.theguardian.com