McCall: “Newcastle four won’t play”

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Manager Stuart McCall has
conceded that the Newcastle Five were a ‘farce’ signing and that only Haris
Vuckic is likely to ever significantly play.
The controversial deal in January
which saw the five loanees, Haris Vuckic, Gael Bigirimana, Kevin Mbubu, Remi
Streete & Shane Ferguson sign contracts till the end of the season, was
borderline unheard of in modern football, and Rangers’ new boss admits they are
unlikely to ever feature due to red tape and injury:

“If you take the four lads [January
loan signings] from Newcastle,
who probably won’t kick a ball for us, out of the equation, it’s not as big a
squad as you’d imagine.”
Shane Ferguson’s status remains
unclear in terms of fitness, and he remains stationed in Tyneside to this day,
while injuries to Streete & Bigirmana ruled the former out after his debut
and the latter out from day one, while Mbubu has played in the development
league in recent weeks but shows no obvious sign of playing for the first team.
It is not entirely clear the
precise nature of McCall’s assertion that the four of them will likely not
feature for the Club, but it sums up the farcical running of the Club in the
previous regime’s final days especially.

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33 COMMENTS

  1. If they won't play due to injury fair enough but to say they won't play if its to do with the mike Ashley influence then its a silly stance as all of those if fit would improve the rangers squad greatly

    • Thats daft ! if McAll thought you could do a turn he would be at your door by Teatime !. McAll knows we need a spark , he is DESPERATE for one if there was any chance of any of them doing it ?………….they would be out there .

  2. To be honest that's a blow because we could do with some fresh faces in the team as the current squad seem incapable of producing the goods. Vuckic is the only guy that looks like scoring at the moment.

  3. Bigirmana is this lad red tape he has some football in him, the others barring Vuvkic no idea, or is this we wont take Ashley's lads, time we take the shit out of whats left at ibrox we hav'nt a lot to choose from thx McCoist, I was one all for dropping down and coming through the leagues a piece of piss we all thought, how wrong we were, get the dads army back and they will do the business, total bollocks as any team in any division will tell you, worse team in Rangers history.

  4. Ferguson should be fit after the international break, so I'm a bit confused by this.
    None of the injuries are long term either. Very strange….

  5. this was to make it look as if ashley was trying to help rangers,,,all he wants is rangers money keep the boys at newcastle we dont want them or ashley,,

  6. MCcall spot on none but vuckic has showed any improvement in squad to say the new faces rubbish there injured and cant train what gives them the right to walk into the team regardless who we have were not goin to be that club you earn the jersey if way stay in championship so be it we ain't obviously good enough yet

  7. I think Mr.Murray has to take Mr,McCall aside and explain some things. Such as, Mr.Ashley still enjoys having seats on this new board. Also we owe Mr.Ashley a lot of money and we most certainly do not want Mr.Ashley to get so upset that he will call in the loans. Mr.King would not like that situation to develop.

    • p.s…Another issue about Mr.Ashley, remember our goal, notice the Sports Direct advertising, he owns that company. Also remember the Livingston goal and how the advertising switched to Puma shoes, remember you buy Puma's at Sports Direct. And who owns Sports Direct..right it's Mr.Ashley..

    • I'm the same. Puma is German like Adidas and Angela Merkat. Sicken ye. Vicious triangle so you tell me where we can buy stuff.

  8. All five of these boys should play if fit because they are almost certain to be better than the crap that McCoist signed and a one legged donkey would be better than Hutton and 'Jig'

    • but there not fit just 1 is,,,,so send them back,,,why keep on about mccoist ??? we where all jumping up and down when we wher winning with him in place , or dont that count now ???,,,

  9. Vukcic has added spark to a dead group. Ferguson is an N Ireland international. Ashley sent them up because he saw a team unfit to secure promotion! He was right

  10. keep fat ashley as far away from our club as wee can,,look what the last friends of his done,,or have we all forgot about the rats ???

  11. Mr Ashley Owns the Rangers Badge, so no matter where you try to buy anything with a Rangers Badge on it the money goes south. The advertising logo on the front of the tops for 2015-16 season onwards also goes to the Rangers Retail Group, which at present is 75% owned by Mr Ashley and that gives him the right to issue more shares in the company to the current shareholders first which Rangers can't afford to buy and which will then be bought by Mr Ashley's Sports Direct and increase his ownership of Rangers Retail and mean even more money goes to SD and not to the club. Every shirt bought rings the tills of Sports Direct. A Big Thank-you to all Rangers Fans from Uncle Mike.

    • Thanks – hadn't realised he could just buy more shares in RRG thereby increasing his share of profits. Is this arrangement time limited, or does it go on until someone else – hopefully us – buys all the shares?

  12. The usual explanation of Somers signing off on these dodgy deals seems to have been between idiocy and self preservation at all costs, but this makes me wonder whether he might have been in bed with fatso on a more sinister level. Hopefully Squinter is looking into this.

    • I agree he could be trying to be funny but I disagree that it is funny, Existentially, in the funny universe, King does not exist. Check out Kierkegaard and Spinoza for clarification. Lighten up. Ashley is easy to parody as a fatty but most people have not noticed King's slight astigmatism,

  13. Here is a fact my fellow Rangers warriors,,, If it wasn't for Mike Ashely, we wouldn't have had Vukcic in our team,, No Vukcic, would have meant no goals,, no goals, means defeats,, This player is already an asset who can help get us promoted,Ibrox,, If the other 4 were fit, I'd give them a game as well, because the others are just plain dire. We cant even beat the bottom of the division at our own ground!!,, I hope King sits down with Mike Ashley and come to some sort of understanding, as we need all the investors we can get,, Thank you for Vukcic Mike, he is the only one trying out there,, and every Rangers fan knows it!!!,

    • heres a fact for you…..we dont want ashley or his players,,,,got it ??? he only wants our money..

    • If King goes in with a shopping basket, he'll come out with only the handles if he's lucky. Fatso doesn't have to concede anything. He has all the cards. I totally agree your point about Vuckic though. Well worked.

    • Rubbish. In phase 1 of the discussions, he is asking permission to do Ashley's garden, bringing his own lawnmower along for the job. Good. Straight up vision squint.

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