19 Apr 2020 15:48:43
Lets see if many rangers supporters on here agree with me in my debate with a celtic supporter this afternoon, regarding how good rangers striker michael mols was/
could have been barring that serious injury and how good celtic striker henrik larsson was. In a completely unbiased opinion here guys, i truly think michael mols would have been better than larsson if he didn't get that horrific cruciate ligament injury against bayern munich. I have NEVER seen in all my 40 odd years of following rangers, a guy that can turn like michael mols could and leave opposing defenders in his wake and running into one another, queue mikey galloway and tom boyd, that was hilarious and class by mols all at the same time! Before mols got the serious injury in his coming together with munich keeper oliver khan on the touchline he was destroying bayern himself, as they couldn't cope with mikey mols and if he hadn't got injured, we would have beaten them, no doubt about it!
Mols was playing that good for us before injury that there was strong interest from manchester utd at the time, with sir alex ferguson supposedly preparing a Â£15million bid for him in his maiden season with us. We paid Â£4million for mikey mols from utrecht the season before and sir alex was prepared so early in his rangers career to give us almost 4 times that for him. Says it all really. Mols really was something else and such a shame that this serious cruciate ligament injury cortailed this! What a talent! ðŸ‘. What do we think fellow bears, what's your memories of mikey mols and how good was he and could have been?

1.) 19 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 16:12:10
Yeah Coop, he certainly was a great player whoâ€™s career was curtailed by the injury. He did recover but was never the same player we watched in the first 6 months of that season. Larsson was a great player and more of an all round player? The best forwards I watched with the Gers are Hateley and McCoist, who had everything âœŒï¸âœŒï¸ðŸ‡¬ðŸ‡§.

2.) 19 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 16:21:26
Mols was a fantastic player, his injuries definitely affected him though.
Larsson was top draw, no question about that. After gazza and laudrup, Larsson was the best I saw in Scotland. (Just my opinion mind)

3.) 19 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 16:28:54
Marco Negri was some finisher yately01.Honestly mate i loved mccoist but negri was the best natural finisher i've seen at ibrox.

4.) 19 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 16:29:37
Well I am obviously going to agree with you . the thing about his injury was I am not so sure it was accidental, as you say he was destroying the Germans . Glad he came back from a career threatening injury but wow in the beginning. never seen a player do what Mols did . verging on a martial art . Larson had it too I admit but for me mickey ever day without a doubt . Larson was prone to be hot and cold like the cup final we watched recently when him and Sutton were rank .

5.) 19 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 16:35:00
Colin Stein has got to be up there with our best in terms of goalscoring. 60 goals in 112 appearances in his first spell with the Gers. Going further back, Jim Forrest scored 83 goals in 105 games. Talented though Mols was, he couldn't lace these players' boots in terms of hitting the back of the net! All Rangers greats though.

6.) 19 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 17:37:02
Mols was class so was Larsson and I agree with yatley about mcoist and hatley. But that was when football was played with 2 up front. Best partnership i ever seen was rush and dagliesh but they played in probably the beat team i ever seen with Hansen souness neal Thomson and co.

7.) 19 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 17:49:57
Never really enjoyed watching Larsen, not denying he was a good striker just didn't do it for me. Mols on the other hand whether you think he was better or not was fantastic to watch. Like you say SGL never seen another player with that type of movement. Wish there was more players like that these days its all a bit sterile. Used to be really exited to see players in the past such as Real Ronaldo, Ronaldinio, Kaka, Zidane, The Laudrups, Gazza, Figo, Haji, Kantona, Maradona, a lot of Dutch players, Cooper, Mark Walters etc. Messi is the only player these days I would put into this category.

8.) 19 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 17:54:01
Toshack and Keegan.

9.) 19 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 18:00:38
I agree with you fauldhoose bear,
that was some liverpool team and they were the dominant force in english football from the 70's into the 80's.

10.) 19 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 18:04:52
Just on liverpool fauldhoose bear. I remember in those days rangers and liverpool had strong links and a helluva lot of rangers supporters regarded liverpool their english team and vice versa with liverpool supporters counting us as their favourite scottish team. I don't know so much about that now though! In those days i grew up on the knowledge that it was rangers/ liverpool and celtic/ everton
There were actually songs about the link ups i mentioned.

{Ed001's Note - that was because Everton was originally a Catholic church team - St Domingo's - before becoming Everton. So in the early days it was initially a Cafflick/Proddy divide to support, but it quickly died off and only the Celtic/Everton and Rangers/Liverpool link was left. Even that has gone now.}

11.) 19 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 18:51:05
Never forget the great Jimmy Millar, agree with Mols would have been best foreign player with out doubt, Larsson close second.

12.) 19 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 19:40:54
Ed not sure about this but I'm sure goodison park had a chapel inside. Think I have heard this before? Maybe this is where the religious thing came into it.

{Ed001's Note - you are talking about St Luke's Church mate, which is within Goodison Park. They were created as a church team though mate, in 1888 and played at Anfield until they fell out with the Scottish landlord John Houlding. Then they moved to Goodison and Houlding created LFC to play at Anfield, recruiting a full team of Scots to play there.}

13.) 19 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 21:24:16
ed001, St Domingo's was a Methodist church not a catholic church. Both Everton aand Liverpool were founded as Protestant clubs. Liverpool's first team, the Team of the Macs, wasn't a full team of Scots, but mainly Scots (8 or 9 depending) .
St Luke's is also a Protestant church, so there was no catholic history with either club. I wrote extensively about both clubs, including their history.

{Ed001's Note - I never knew it was Methodist, it was always seen as a Catholic team so I assumed. I didn't mean it to read as the first team that played was all Scots, that was an error in my reply as I was typing quick and didn't check back. I never said St Luke's was Catholic.}

14.) 19 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 21:25:46
Also, Ed, John Houlding was English born and bred, a mayor of Liverpool and a high ranking Orangeman and freemason.

{Ed001's Note - I don't know why I put he was Scottish, I have actually written about him for the site before. It was his connections that were Scottish. Thank you for pointing out my mistake then. That was a stupid one. Shows why I should make a point of checking first before posting. He had actually saved Everton before they decided to oust him from their board and treated him badly, hence why he kicked them out of Anfield. They created an implacable enemy who built Liverpool with the aim of always being better than Everton.}

15.) 19 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 22:02:52
It's not widely known, but Houlding also had a notion to take over the other established club in the area, Bootle FC, before founding Liverpool FC. Could have altered the course of history with that one. Bootle could have been the home of the current world champions!

{Ed001's Note - Bootle folded in the end. Before my time, or I would no doubt have been a Bootle fan as it is where I am from.}

16.) 19 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 22:31:44
I thought Mols was absolute class, his turn was superb, going one way then the other, defenders knew he was going to do it but couldnâ€™t do anything about it. Larsson was more of an all rounder but for me Mols would get more goals, but Larsson more assists and more involved in the play. Negri was immense as well, absolute natural finisher.

17.) 19 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 22:32:38
Doiger, big colin was in my rangers best 11 in a wee game me & a few friends got involved in amongst ourselfs, i had morelos up front with stein in my 11, remember when stein signed fornus, banging them in for fun. Mate.

18.) 19 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 22:42:57
That's a shame, but is there not a non league team, Bootle FC, who are still on the go? I have an old friend who lives in Clare Road and I think he goes to see them now and again with his grandsons.

{Ed001's Note - yes there is, not seen a lot of them, it was always Liverpool for me. Clare Road? I know it. Off Balliol I think.}

19.) 19 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 21:42:44
I thought Mols was absolute class, his turn was superb, going one way then the other, defenders knew he was going to do it but couldnâ€™t do anything about it. Larsson was more of an all rounder but for me Mols would get more goals, but Larsson more assists and more involved in the play. Negri was immense as well, absolute natural finisher.

20.) 19 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 21:43:38
Doiger, big colin was in my rangers best 11 in a wee game me & a few friends got involved in amongst ourselfs, i had morelos up front with stein in my 11, remember when stein signed fornus, banging them in for fun. Mate.

21.) 19 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 21:51:14
We have been very fortunate with the number 9's we have had, and there is no doubt about the class of Mols, but spare a thought for big DJ and the scoring attributes of Jim Forrest.

22.) 20 Apr 2020
20 apr 2020 08:54:42
i remember as a wee boy my late dad learning me the colin stein song ie.
"we don't need eusebio, we've got colin stein"! colin stein was a favourite of mine growing up! takes you back eh? ðŸ‘â™¥ï¸.

23.) 20 Apr 2020
20 Apr 2020 17:24:37
With 469 in 448 games and only the league and Scottish cup Jimmy McGrory takes some beating. TJBB if Larsson played for Rangers and achieved what he did at Celtic he still wouldnâ€™t do it for you.

24.) 21 Apr 2020
21 Apr 2020 09:21:15
Oldkily, its rangers fc players we are talking about, clue is in name rangers rumours / banter, mate.