Strangest Rangers Signings Of All Time

[Rupert Pupkin]

With the transfer window opening tomorrow, hopefully get some excitement out of it.

What are the strangest signings you have seen us make?

I'll start with a tap in, Pippo Maniero, signed in 2005 and never played a game for us. I heard on H&H that the agreement was that he would train alone in Italy and if we needed him for a game he would fly in and play and then fly back to Italy. I mean WTF?!?!

 

[Souness86]

William Stanger

 

[OohAhHuistra]

Eggen
Ashikodi
Gayle
Celik
Ponroy
Stanger

 

[Duranman]

Eggen. Did he even get on the bench?

 

[Loyal72]

Macijek? Spelling is way off.

But few years back, we signed a Polish Goalkeeper, came, was here a month or two and then gone again.

Never once featured.

 

[Vidmar]

Mr Gostomski. I forget his first name.

You wonder which agent pocketed a tidy fee.

 

[UlsterScotGer]

Matt McKay, Francisco Strella (so?) signed, barely played if at all, left.

 

[Loyal72]

Mr Gostomski. I forget his first name.

You wonder which agent pocketed a tidy fee.

Look at the post above yours. We're talking about the same player hahaha

I couldn't mind his surname

Maciej Gostomski

 

[Coatbridge Chancellor]

Andy King

 

[Porto Loyal]

Andy Firth, signed to give the strikers a goalie to practice with

 

[LoyalAndBlue82]

Joey Barton

Everyone and their granny knew it would fail

 

[Main Stand]

Eggen. Did he even get on the bench?

Not sure, but he was playing in the Uefa cup final the year before we signed him as cover. Just was never needed, don’t think it was overly strange.

 

[Claverdon Loyal]

Andy Firth is such a strange one - has he ever been on the bench?

 

[Oduwa]

Eggen
Ashikodi
Gayle
Celik
Ponroy
Stanger

Follow Ashikodi on twitter. Boy seems to have serious issues.

 

[big_blue]

10th of July 1989

 

[Puggy]

Prodan

 

[Main Stand]

Pippo Maniero wins hands down.

Just utterly bizarre.

Every other signing you can at least say “well, they came in as cover” or “we had a look at them and thought we needed better”.

 

[Claverdon Loyal]

Nieto

 

[Main Stand]

Andy Firth is such a strange one - has he ever been on the bench?

Of course, he’s played a game for us

 

[OohAhHuistra]

Andy Firth is such a strange one - has he ever been on the bench?

Played against Killie as a sub

 

[Loyal72]

Andy Firth is such a strange one - has he ever been on the bench?

Yes

I actually think he has coaching abilities that we were interested in, apparently helps out with the sessions for the keepers etc.

 

[Rupert Pupkin]

Andy Firth is such a strange one - has he ever been on the bench?

He actually came on against Killie at Rugby park a couple of seasons ago. apparently he's a good coach and is heavily involved in coaching the goalkeepers.

 

[Tony75tfc]

Andy Firth is such a strange one - has he ever been on the bench?

He came at rugby park once im sure

 

[Claverdon Loyal]

Of course, he’s played a game for us

really? must have blanked this from my mind

 

[JeffreySpauIding]

Jack Simpson was strange. It was obvious he was going to be a shit signing but Gerrard wanted him for some reason.

 

[Est1872]

Garner was quite weird. Didn't seem to fit into Warburton's style of play at all.

 

[MiseryHatesCompany]

Alan Gow?

 

[Main Stand]

Garner was quite weird. Didn't seem to fit into Warburton's style of play at all.

Think Warburton started to grow fond of a target man to be honest, see him signing Dykes for QPR as well.

 

[IbroxForever]

Garner was quite weird. Didn't seem to fit into Warburton's style of play at all.

Not only that, the guy clearly never wanted to sign for us. Complete baffling signing.

 

[LRM]

Carlos Pena

 

[20rangersultras07]

Andy firth

 

[Est1872]

Think Warburton started to grow fond of a target man to be honest, see him signing Dykes for QPR as well.

So there was a Plan B after all

 

[Marky86]

Alan Gow?

Gets my vote too!

 

[20rangersultras07]

Carlos Pena

Peña wasn’t even bad imo, just a Ragin alky

 

[IbroxForever]

Simpson is hard to best. Signed at 24 years old and only something like 24 career games. Shocking signing.

 

[DougieJones]

Going back a bit, Neale Cooper always struck me as an odd one. To this day i still think of him as an ex-Aberdeen player rather than ex-Rangers.

 

[Main Stand]

Alan Gow?

Have a mate who was involved in St Mirren first team squad for a wee bit with Gow, trained at Aberdeen with Shankland and Wright etc. Also played for Celtic until he was 21.

Before he signed to Celtic, he mentioned that Alan Gow was the most talented footballer he had played with in terms of natural ability.

 

[eastenclosurebear]

When we signed Daniel Cousin for the 2nd time just before we went into Administration.

Surely we knew what was about to happen, I don't think he even got as far as arriving in Glasgow before the deal had to be cancelled.

 

[Loyal72]

Carlos Pena

Wasn't exactly strange tbh, there was definite talent in there, could've been a monster.

Preferred ching n beer though.

 

[Est1872]

Not only that, the guy clearly never wanted to sign for us. Complete baffling signing.

My old man is convinced McParland was getting backhanders for that one

 

[LRM]

Peña wasn’t even bad imo, just a Ragin alky

He played like he’d never seen a football in his life - then would score 2 a minute later

 

[cambie gers]

The Newcastle 5.

 

[MiseryHatesCompany]

Have a mate who was involved in St Mirren first team squad for a wee bit with Gow, trained at Aberdeen with Shankland and Wright etc. Also played for Celtic until he was 21.

Before he signed to Celtic, he mentioned that Alan Gow was the most talented footballer he had played with in terms of natural ability.

It's a funny old game how it works out.

 

[OohAhHuistra]

Fabrice Fernandes. Cracking goal away to Motherwell though

 

[SWBlue1872]

Joey Barton

Everyone and their granny knew it would fail

Selective memory then, the thread here was absolutely rammed with folk saying we should forget he's an absolute scum bag who stubbed a fag out on a youth team player because he would be the best player in the league by a mile.

I agree though, it was a stick on it was going to go sour.

Wasn't exactly strange tbh, there was definite talent in there, could've been a monster.

Preferred ching n beer though.

Again, there were literal news stories from the Spanish ESPN talking about him being a pisshead party boy and folk wrote it off as the MSM mischief making because he was signing for us.

He was a waster who should never have been signed.

 

[Main Stand]

My old man is convinced McParland was getting backhanders for that one

Was Garner not the one that Warburton’s daughter was allegedly involved in?

 

[drgriffen]

Oleg Salenko.

All Summer we tried to sign Florin Raducioiu even though he didn't want to come to Scotland. Once we eventually realised it wasn't going to happen we signed Salenko who was a totally different type of player.

We have definitely signed worse players but this signing never made sense.

 

[RSEA]

Gary Bolen

 

[Rupert Pupkin]

Was Garner not the one that Warburton’s daughter was allegedly involved in?

If I remember correctly it was something to do with him switching agencies to Warburton's daughter's that held up the deal for a bit. Could be wrong but I heard that was happening a lot with our signings back then.

 

[Est1872]

Was Garner not the one that Warburton’s daughter was allegedly involved in?

Yeah, I think there were similar controversies at Forest too