17 Mar 2026 15:09:39
John, are you hearing anything different regarding Moore?
My understanding that any idea of signing him permanently is fanciful.
17 Mar 2026 15:49:45
Aphe. I was out for dinner Friday. The table included a boardroom member, and it was felt Spurs want 20 million. Make of what u will.
Some very interesting things in the pipeline.
I'm again told Doehki has till the end of March to commit. He wants CL football. As I said in December, I'd be stunned if we could get a deal done.
17 Mar 2026 15:55:07
I have a feeling that deal is probably dead now, my friend.
We certainly will not spend £20 million on any single player.
Everything about Rangers is exciting at the moment other than results and performances on the pitch.
17 Mar 2026 15:58:24
Seems very unlikely then. Would think that's way outside our price range.
17 Mar 2026 16:12:48
Deals can be made, 20/30 percent sell-on, 40million buy-back clause, and I bet we could get that down to 12-14million.
17 Mar 2026 16:18:46
Great info, guys. Keep it coming. 👍
17 Mar 2026 16:35:54
I don't think paying £20m for a player is beyond us. You only have to read about how Chelsea managed to sign Madueke for £80 odd million. Spreading the costs over a longer period can help avoid breaking FFP rules.
17 Mar 2026 16:43:45
Maybe we could Klarna him.
17 Mar 2026 16:52:06
Doehki couldn't lace big Manny Fernandez's boots. 🤔
17 Mar 2026 16:54:54
We cannot be buying prospects from the EPL in my opinion. The risk is far too high, and our scouting system should be identifying similar prospects at a much more reasonable financial level.
I don't rate Moore because he has minimal end product, but it's not him in particular; it's shopping in a market that we don't have the finances to be competitive in that I have more of an issue with.
17 Mar 2026 17:23:45
Really, fool? You think we're going to start splashing out £20m on individual players???
Hey Tommy, can you name a single teenager over the last 40 years or so that's been as promising as Moore??
17 Mar 2026 17:24:11
Moore will play for England. He's a shining light in a poor team and we need to get him, Chermiti and Naderi all working together to see the best of all 3. We have enough central deep players to let the full backs get forward, and I think the reason we are so awful is that isn't happening to accommodate the atrocious Gassama or the brutally awful Olsen.
Anyway, I know for a fact that an Italian team are watching Moore because I am in regular contact with someone from that team at board level. I had a 20 min call yesterday with them about him. Sounds like the sort of thing I'd say someone else is making up. But it isn't.
17 Mar 2026 17:30:54
Moore has goals and assists, but even when not, he beats men and occupies others, etc.
Dunno if we have 20m to spend on a player, especially as we need to spend in other areas tho.
17 Mar 2026 18:08:35
Mikey Moore is a superb young player with a massive career in front of him, but unfortunately it won't be with us beyond this season. ☹️ Our current loanee at Kilmarnock, Findlay Curtis, will be Moore's replacement I feel for next season. 🤔
17 Mar 2026 18:22:11
Rostosto, how about Wayne Rooney or Michael Owen?
Foolmonty, UEFA closed the amortisation loophole so that the value can only be written down over 5 years max, no matter length of contract. Mainly because of Chelsea.
17 Mar 2026 18:34:55
Loan with an obligation in Summer 2027 of £14-15m + 20% sell on is what I'm hearing, offer wise.
Allows us to spend more in prominent areas this summer.
17 Mar 2026 19:20:38
I would love that to be true, Bear1986, but just can't see it, pal. ☹️
17 Mar 2026 19:28:07
Spurs could be playing Championship football next season. Moore is worth more to them as a player than that £20m. They won't even make any decisions on this lad before the season has ended, and they will have a look at him in pre-season. This is standard for these EPL clubs.
I wouldn't want Rangers spending £20m on a player who has only given us 5 goals this season. I'd rather see the summer budget spent bringing in 5 players for £4m each.
Rangers need major surgery in the summer, and blowing the budget on one guy won't happen.
I'd go even further and say I'd rather have Sima or Cerny back before Moore. Sima is worth a lot less than Moore, and delivered so much more. Tillman scored 18 goals in his debut season for Rangers, and the fans said he wasn't worth £5m, but Moore, who has scored 5 goals, is worth £20m? Makes no sense.
17 Mar 2026 20:21:26
Moore is a player with huge potential. He will be a regular England international. My only criticism of his game at present is he doesn't know when to release a pass, but that's youth, and it will come with time & experience. I think the best we can hope for is to get him on loan for another season.
17 Mar 2026 20:50:01
As it seems from your conversation, John, Moore at 20 million may be out of our price range unless we can negotiate his price down.
Do you think there's any possibility of us extending his loan deal into next season? I always thought this might be the only way of us getting him, and I think it could benefit all parties.
17 Mar 2026 21:05:17
If we took him in laim again they'd want £2m again, so that's £4m in loans. We then would pay £16m, whether that be £10 and 6 in achievable add ins, or whatever. They want £20m n not a penny less.
He's worth that all day in England, but for us. How do we profit on him at that price?
We're not going to sell him for £30m if he does well, that's just not going to happen.
His numbers aren't high enough for that figure.
We'd need to agree £10m fee with 50% sell on total price, not profit.
So, sell for £20m, we'd get £10m back, they'd get £10m on top of our original £10m.
That's the only way it would work.
Can anyone tell us if the £2m this season and the possible £2m next season would come off the fee we'd pay?
17 Mar 2026 22:03:35
Tommy, how many 18-year-olds are the finished article? Your take on Moore is outrageous.
17 Mar 2026 22:14:38
That's not how a sell-on usually works, Stevie. It's a percent of the profit, so over and above what we paid. In this case, they would get 50% of anything over the 10m we hypothetically would pay. So, they would get 50% of 10m.
17 Mar 2026 22:40:25
Orange, I know that, mate, but what I wrote above was: for us to make a deal we'd need to agree to something like that, as they want £20m.
We're not going to pay £20m for someone we might only get £15-20m back for.
If we do what I suggested, they'll get £20m if we sell for £20m, plus the £2m loan fee we paid this season.
If it's loan with obligation again, they'll get £2n, so possible £24m.
We'd get our £10m permanent fee back. That's the only way it will happen. We're not paying £15-20m for anyone when we're likely to get £15-20m from a sale.
18 Mar 2026 05:54:15
If we pay 10 and sell for 20, then they will only receive 15m in total. If you're then adding in loan fees, then that's 19m, not 24m. Like I said, it's 50% of the profit, so that would be 5m.
18 Mar 2026 06:17:08
I don't want him. Not as good as some say. He may develop into a cracker. Too many blind endless product runs, not passing when he should, passing when he shouldn't. He'll go and continue to develop elsewhere.
Like others, I don't think he'll be here, and also like others he's not the finished article. Oh, and less goal contribution than Curtis in more games, as someone posted. Not worth what Spurs would want, imo.
18 Mar 2026 07:46:50
Moore has had a good run of late, and played well, but I've got to take into consideration the 3rd rate league he's playing in. At this time, I've no idea if he'll make it to the elite levels and play for England.
I feel he's a bit lightweight and doesn't have blistering pace, so, against these big athletic defenders in the PL, I think he'd struggle just now. Still young thou, and will probably fill out a bit.
18 Mar 2026 07:47:59
Stevie, it is a contract, and we/they can write the terms of it in any way we choose, I imagine, just like any other business contract. So, it normally works on percentage of profit, but if we choose to agree to 50% of total price we get, then that could be agreed and signed for.
These things aren't written in stone, even if it won't happen, imo.
18 Mar 2026 07:55:58
Stand corrected, whoever posted the goal contribution thing may have been incorrect, bit rusty. 😉
18 Mar 2026 08:09:35
If they want £20m, we can't afford him. Whilst he looks very promising, we can't take that risk. He could go on to be a world-class winger/10, or he could get injured and be worth nothing / no sell-on like Kent.
Would love to keep him, but we can't be paying that.
18 Mar 2026 12:11:32
Stevie, sorry, your maths ain't mathing.
We'd need to agree £10m fee with 50% sell on total price, not profit.
So, sell for £20m, we'd get £10m back, and they'd get £10m on top of our original £10m.
That means we get nothing. We might get 10M back, but we paid 10M, so the net result is 0. Not great business doing that.
18 Mar 2026 13:26:10
Stevie, imo a key issue re Moore, Djiga et al is fsr; deal u suggest does not help parent club, especially one relegated.
18 Mar 2026 13:38:05
Orange, it's not a rule that u must only do a sell on of profit, although it's the norm.
I've written that because I think it's not allowed that a player can be part owned in Britain, so instead of them keeping 50% of rights to the player (£10m), we'd agree 50% of total transfer fee, not profit; it's not hard to do, mate.
Geesa, I agree, mate, we'd not make a profit, but that's kind of my point, his value is that high that we're unlikely to sell for any higher.
John, Spurs won't miss the money if they did that; their parachute payment dwarfs our budget by about £100m.
They're still £10m up at the end of the day, he's an academy product.
18 Mar 2026 13:52:14
Stevie, get where you're coming from, Spurs not likely to go down, Wolves will, they r in the mire if relegated.
18 Mar 2026 13:58:04
We shouldn't be chasing players who overlook the need for domestic success. We should move on if Champions League is a deal breaker.
18 Mar 2026 14:58:39
It's not hard to do? I know that, mate, don't worry about maths. I clearly stated in my original reply that the majority of the time it's usually a percentage of profit, and then made my point. At no point did you think to say you meant it was of the full transfer.
If you had, then there would have been no interaction from me. But you don't need to be condescending in future. Especially with maths, mate. 👍
18 Mar 2026 17:50:58
Orange T, I thought u had been nippy to me in that msg before, so I probably was nippy there, mate.
Sorry. Just thought u had nipped at me first lol.
18 Mar 2026 18:35:00
Is that a couple of 'you started it' posts. 😂😂