EnglishRanger
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Someone on here will probably know but I've always wondered why he signed for Celtic when he grew up as a Rangers fan. Did Rangers ever show an interest in him before he signed for Celtic?
Why did Rangers miss out on signing Kenny Dalglish?
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Sevenoaks Loyal
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Was he not deemed too small ?
Was waiting by the phone for a call that never came, not sure why we never went after him, hopefully one of the older bears can clarify.
Syme
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This seems like the excuse every team comes out with when they miss out on a talent.
Not saying it’s not true btw.
Putting it simply, nobody from Rangers would go up a chap the door, they did.
sheddensbear
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It's all about scouting. If your scouts can't identify talent, you won't signed talent. BTW, my mate played at Possil YM with him, Dalglish turned up at training with his Rangers scarf.
AndythephotoDr
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I’m sure in one of Dalglish’s books he talks about when him and Danny McGrain had signed for Celtic as youths and were both Rangers fans. They had attended a OF game and Celtic had scored and McGrain cheered. Dalglish asked “why are you cheering for them”.
Thankfully they went to DJ’s door.
GranvillusClutterbuckus
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Aye, but as a British club, we also expect our players to have at least a modicum of ability in speaking English.
The “parrot joke” applies to them equally.
Super-Swally
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Is Kenny not still an admitted Rangers fan?
I mean he worked for us as a scout in the 90s, for what it's worth and he's always talked warmly about us.
I mean he worked for us as a scout in the 90s, for what it's worth and he's always talked warmly about us.
Super-Swally
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I'm sure I've read also from one of his books that in one of his first old firm games, Rangers scored and Dalgleish cheered. He was pulled up for cheering when playing for them by none other than, Danny McGrain! Lol
talkingsportsjacket
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Probably the best Scottish player in my lifetime.
monkey magic
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Kenny has never been subject to horrific verbal abuse or worse by Rangers fans for signing and playing for Celtc. Look how that mob still act like the bigoted lunatics they are when Mo Johnston's name is mentioned. That's the difference between us and them, yet the media portray Bears as " bigots ".
Alex Venters
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League Cup game at Parkhead, we lost 3-1 in 1967 after being 1-0 up on 78mins and missing a pen when Kai Johansen hit the bar and they scored 3 times in last 12 mins.
Why didn't we sign him? Laziness, we were sleeping.
Alex Venters
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After Law & Baxter.
Pentasa
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off topic slightly We didn't need to sign McGrain as we had Sandy Jardine
CooperBlu11
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I genuinely never knew Danny McGrain was a Rangers fan. Good to see more of their beloved legends have a fondness to the Rangers principles
biggee
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Man U seem to make a good try at it.
MightyGersLand!
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You can use any of a handful of names, and ask why this big mouthed guy from good stock, who played for the dark side, and never has anything but a chip on his shoulder and lies to spread about Rangers and their fans, was never signed for Rangers.
While we still to this day, seek out and sign folk like Aribo, Sakala, Kamara, and they continue to sign folk like Kyogo, Griffiths, McCarthy and so on.
It all seems pretty obvious to me?
Jorg Albertz
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Probably one of the worst footballing decisions the club has ever made.
Struths Canary
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We also be missed John Wark, McLeish, and Kenny Burns as well as many others....not sure we were on top of scouting then.
JayDee
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We let Burns go, allegedly because he was too dirty a player.
Zandermac
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I've got the book, if I remember right it was Dalglish that jumped up and cheered, he was desperate to sign for Rangers
Geneva
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I'm sure i read that in McGrains book, that he and KD were in the stand in a game against Rangers and McGrain jumped up when Celtic scored and Dalglish said to him "you don't want them to win."
Jan Wyck
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He watched Rangers training from his window.
The story of his signing for Celtc is one of weird coincidence. They had been after him for a while and he was reluctant because of his Rangers leanings. Sean Fallon the then assistant to BJK, car broke down in the Ibrox area. In the days before mobile phones he had to traipse to a telephone box for help, and in the hours they said he would be waiting he decided to visit the Dalgleish home to have one more stab at convincing him to sign for them. Sadly it worked and the rest is history.
If he had signed for his boyhood Rangers, I believe we would be having him in the frame for one of the greatest Rangers.
Geneva
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Gordon McQueen was another who was a youth player at Ibrox and when he was a regular in the Leeds team Jock Wallace tried to sign him in a cash plus Derek Parlane deal.
OnTheWay
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How is it you sign for them after wanting to play for Rangers your whole life? it was a good career move, clearly, but just can't understand how you bring yourself to sign for them and commit yourself to sending the second class pigs home happy. Even a Hibs, Aberdeen or Dundee United would be prefferable.
Fck Dalglish.
Fck Dalglish.
ChildOfGoth
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Guy I know well played with KD at Junior level where he was on loan and said yeah already a superb footballer , the guy I know later became a scout for Rangers under the real Big Jock Wallace and had them sign Davie Cooper and I think Gordon Smith . Rangers didn’t properly support the manager at that time and while they aimed and prized Hansen and Strachan the board did not meet there requests . Hansen went to Liverpool for about 100k and Strachan to Aberdeen for a much smaller fee but still one Rangers chose not to find .
As someone said you can’t buy everyone but those players would very likely have been game changers especially if Daglish was signed too.
As someone said you can’t buy everyone but those players would very likely have been game changers especially if Daglish was signed too.
Rangerista
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His dad should have been battering down the front door of Ibrox demanding Rangers give his boy a trial, he just lived across from Ibrox.
The fact that the rotten mob were already interested in him was all the incentive we should have needed.
One who should have never got away.
His loss though, if he ever meets up with Scott Alan they can muse over their mutual betrayal of the club they claimed to have loved.
The fact that the rotten mob were already interested in him was all the incentive we should have needed.
One who should have never got away.
His loss though, if he ever meets up with Scott Alan they can muse over their mutual betrayal of the club they claimed to have loved.
yes, Hansen was another. my old man still goes on about that
Drumchapel
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THEY chapped on a teenage boys' door, and that boy removed his Rangers posters from his bedroom wall so THEIr scout wouldn't see them. Always wondered why a scout would be in a teenage boy's bedroom
think we've all heard that one
Our scouting system was amateurish back then. We missed out on Dalglish, McGrain and Willie Miller, yet could somehow sign Jim Denny and Ally Scott! How else can you explain that one?
Too frail.
douzpwa
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That might have something to do with their own bigotry given given recent exposed historical tweets and a clear open bias against us!
I said before Danny McGrain was also sitting waiting for the Rangers rep to come to his house to sign him and was left waiting. His mother always believed it was his name that stopped him signing for Rangers. She became a red hot Rangers supporter to a bitter Rangers hater. The McGrains were friends of my family so I know this as fact.
Walter Sobchak
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Cos he was a turncoat rat.
TCWNS1872
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Penny pinching?
The Shadow
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Probably an element of ‘pompousness ’ about us at the time tbh.
Most likely expected good players to crawl on their hands and knees and beg to play for us.
