Stuart Pearce (Rangers related)

[stonewall Jackson]

A genuine Hard as nails player and I would have loved to see him up here although he may have spent a lot of time serving suspensions. Remember the England v France game when Boli nutted him and he just got up as if nothing had happened.

 

[immortal7]

Souness was always after a left back.

Chris Vinnicombe, Jan Bartram, Tom Cowan, speculation about Pearce, Dorigo...
Stuart Munro saw all of them off.

Rumours of Andy Brehme in 89/90, which my old man insisted was a done deal to my uncle in Dusseldorf, who told all his mates, which resulted in his ITK status never recovering.

 

[Inspector FROST]

Best LB I ever saw in a Rangers Jersey, if only for a testimonial.

Souness tells a story that he went down to see Clough about signing Pearce and agreed a deal. Souness told Murray it was done, but when the Forest board spoke to Clough he had no recollection of agreeing anything with Souness. Some signing he wouldve been

Clough was probably on the swally so that would be the reason his memory was blank .

Would have loved to have seen Pearce at Ibrox .

 

[jprfc]

Genuinely at that time there were very very few clubs as big as us.
Over the next 3-5 years the only thing that held its back was the 3 foreigners rule in Europe. Without that I’d have fully expected us to be European elite.

86-90 we were as big if not bigger than any club in Britain , the European ban after Heysel was a major factor with the English clubs.

 

[BlueNoseBlueblood]

We were linked with Derby’s Mark Wright around 1988. Remember meeting him and Ted McMinn in The Village in Shawlands before the 1988 League Cup Final.

Sourness did eventually sign him in 1991 but for Liverpool.

too many grapes?

 

[RWB-Since1963]

86-90 we were as big if not bigger than any club in Britain , the European ban after Heysel was a major factor with the English clubs.

We definitely were that.
If our then Custodian Mr Murray was half as good as he thought he was, he should have been using that exact leverage to be part of what was going on with BSKYB in England, and setting the wheels in motion to get us out of the cesspit of Scottish football.

 

[Jmacca1975]

There was a lot of "noise" around Pearce potentially signing when Souness was manager.
Whether factual or otherwise is anybody's guess.

Was it not around the time we signed Robertson?

 

[TamS-RFC]

This is a belter about him still being an Electrician.]

Crossleys impression of Clough is fvcking top notch lol

 

[RWB-Since1963]

Was it not around the time we signed Robertson?

It was Walter that signed DR.
The rumours I remember that first started circulating, were when GS was in charge.

 

[RWB-Since1963]

Crossleys impression of Clough is fvcking top notch lol

It definitely is. There's a few other crackers going about that he does.

 

[WinkieWATP]

Mind hearing Pearce talking about being asked to appear in a testimonial and saying thanks for the offer and Richard Gough responding saying that Rangers don’t ever play friendlies

Pearce was a tremendous player. Was listening to a documentary type program about him on Talksport one night late last week. Massive QPR fan who was working as a spark whilst playing non league before he got his big break at Forest

 

[Glasgow Rangers (Sco)]

As Alex Ferguson said about Tony Adams, “he’s a Man Utd player in all but strip”

Pearce would have been a fantastic Ranger

 

[Mallaig Thrillman]

Decent player that would have been top class if he learned to take pens like our skipper.

 

[Neild79]

When they announced we had a new signing (turned out to be Mo Johnston) I was expecting it to be Tony Dorigo

Pearce was a great player and would have been brilliant signing

We stayed 5 minutes away from Davie Cooper & my uncle met him going to the bookies in North Motherwell (he liked a gamble).
My uncle asked him why he left Rangers.
Coopers reply.

Because we signed that B@#£%#D Mo Johnstone.

 

[104Bear]

Stuart Pearce would have taken our team up another notch, the guy was top class.

 

[bud_light]

Rumours of Andy Brehme in 89/90, which my old man insisted was a done deal to my uncle in Dusseldorf, who told all his mates, which resulted in his ITK status never recovering.

Was headlines in the Evening Times as well

 

[Johansen]

Was it not around the time we signed Robertson?

Walter Smith signed Robertson

 

[tazzabear]

He was heavily linked around 1988.

Fantastic player.

Like Porteous though, he wouldn’t be finishing too many game s for us?

 

[ssblue]

Like Porteous though, he wouldn’t be finishing too many game s for us?

Never ever thought I would see one of the best players of his generation compared to a Hibs player.

 

[tazzabear]

Never ever thought I would see one of the best players of his generation compared to a Hibs player.

A bit of a tenuous link.

 

[Bud Johnston1972]

Yes I hear all this love for Pearce but the bottom line is he never played for us. I admired him and he was a great left back for Notts Forrest and England but history will show that he didn’t play for us as much as I would have loved the man to have done so please let’s move on guys.

 

[WilkinsBullet]

I've been listening to his interview on the Joe Cole podcast. They speak about his love for Forest and Joe asks him if he would have ever left them earlier than he did in his career and if anyone came in for him. Pearce says the two big ones were us and Manchester United.

I can't remember Pearce ever coming up in conversation about us trying to sign him. Anybody know if we ever made an offer or did it not get off the ground due to Pearce wanting to stay at Forest??

I'd have enjoyed watching him smashing people up here (born in 85' so might have been too young to remember anyway).

He was constantly being linked to Rangers. Rumour I heard was that deal collapsed as Rangers wouldn't give Clough a bung. At same time we were constantly being linked with Tony Dorigo and maybe slightly prior to that Vasily Rats.

 

[OlegKuznetsov]

We had John Brown.

Wasnt enough room at left back for two psychos

 

[derek145]

Souness was always after a left back.

Chris Vinnicombe, Jan Bartram, Tom Cowan, speculation about Pearce, Dorigo...
Stuart Munro saw all of them off.

And Julian Dick if I remember

 

[Hideyorii]

He played for us along with Robbie Fowler if I remember correctly in Gazza’s testimonial match.

Gazza had a testimonial?

 

[TibbsyBear]

Gazza had a testimonial?

It was Alan McLaren's I think mate.

Poster just got mixed up.

 

[subversive_bear]

Never ever thought I would see one of the best players of his generation compared to a Hibs player.

George Best played for Hibs!

 

[DEJA BLUE]

There was a lot of "noise" around Pearce potentially signing when Souness was manager.
Whether factual or otherwise is anybody's guess.

Definately linked a few times with us.

 

[RWB-Since1963]

Mind hearing Pearce talking about being asked to appear in a testimonial and saying thanks for the offer and Richard Gough responding saying that Rangers don’t ever play friendlies

Pearce was a tremendous player. Was listening to a documentary type program about him on Talksport one night late last week. Massive QPR fan who was working as a spark whilst playing non league before he got his big break at Forest

Carried on as a Spark at Forest. See my earlier post

 

[Dalmuirbear]

Gazza had a testimonial?

Alan McLaren’s, my mistake.

 

[dougieb]

He has spoken a few times about how he was close to signing for us

 

[Jonathan E]

And Julian Dick if I remember

I don't remember that one although Souness signed him for Liverpool so he must have had his eye on him.