25 Mar 2026 14:28:02
Strikers - To need to score or not need to score, that is the question?
Morelos – attitude problem and deemed not good enough by some.
Scored 14, 18, 12, 12, 11 and 11 league goals in his 6 seasons with us.
Scored another 46 in total in other comps.
Roofe – injury prone and deemed not good enough by some.
Scored 14, 10, 1 and 1 league goals in his 4 seasons with us.
Scored another 12 in total in other comps.
Colak – sicknote and not deemed good enough by some.
Scored 14 league goals in his only season with us.
Scored another 4 in total in other comps.
Dessers – missed to many chances and deemed not good enough by some.
Scored 16 and 18 league goals in his 2 seasons with us.
Scored another 18 in total in other comps.
In their time at the club we won 1 title, 1 Scottish Cup and 1 League Cup – not good enough by Rangers standards.
We now have some creaming their pants about a striker who has scored 16 career goals in total at all levels.
A striker who has 9 league goals ( scored over 5 games ) as the focal point of our attack.
A striker who according to some doesn't need to score goals as we joint top scorers in the league.
A striker who according to some doesn't need to score goals as long as we win the league.
So, what happens next season?
Or are we expecting Celtic to be as bad again ( never happened the last time we won the league )?
Or are we expecting Chermiti to turn into the goal scoring machine he has still to show us?
He's scored a couple of wonderful goals.
But is that enough to be a Rangers Number 9?
25 Mar 2026 15:20:34
Easy answer - no. Move on in the summer window for 15M and take his wiiners medal as a souvenir.
25 Mar 2026 15:24:26
Short answer is no, for that level of cost it's not good enough. But guess what, we've bought him already, that's not reversible and the only way we at least get our money back is if he develops and improves to a point where another team want him.
What won't get us the money back is if we berate the player every single day on forums whilst we're in the middle of a title race.
Maybe, just maybe, if we recognise 1) it's not his fault we paid that for him, 2) he has shown glimpses (yes not enough yet but glimpses) that he could become a good player, and 3) the way we play doesn't necessarily put focus on a sole striker scoring goals (yes maybe by design given players we have at the moment).
When we get to the summer transfer window, we can all talk about who is or isn't good enough to win the league next year. But right now at this moment in time, it's pointless conversation, so can we please drop the constant repeat of the same discussion and start backing our team as we try win the league.
25 Mar 2026 15:27:11
Chermiti has seven games remaining mph, he could easily score more than Morelos did in a couple of seasons. (Loved Morelos.) Some must be forgetting this is his first proper season. Hopefully starts scoring far more frequently. Rakes of young center forwards never even scored 9 in the first season. Highlighted who, imo, is the best cf in the world right now, Kane.
Away, and look at his first season, or even his second or third, he never hit double figures.
The most important part in winning the league, Arsenal cf has scored a couple more than Chermiti has right now and looks very likely they win the league.
This, to me, is getting very boring now, as some are more interested in dishing our player. Try supporting, see how that goes.
25 Mar 2026 15:38:38
It's irrelevant what other players had done at other clubs as it only matters what happens at Rangers remember that statement?
Mph, it's not good enough, nowhere near, and it's terrible excuses getting made for all our strikers now.
Chermiti's game has improved throughout the season; he needs to add goals.
Naderi's best may come next season, hopefully, young guy just moved to a strange country but needs to kick on next season. No matter how good he becomes, we should never have spanked 4/5 million on him, as 3rd division in Germany is not a great standard
Miovski, the best finisher we had at our club apparently, pity he isn't showing it and never has other than 2 good ish seasons at the sheep, his full career.
Needs sold in the summer.
The standards for our strikers are dropping season on season, but it's not their fault, it's how they are told to play. Apparently, getting told not to be in the box to score, they have to make space for others to score, even though a striker's job is to score. That's my opinion for what it's worth, mate. ?
25 Mar 2026 15:44:26
Storm, because you say so, fgs, man. Lol.
25 Mar 2026 15:47:31
So the manager isn't telling the cf's how to play, so if they don't do what he asks, why are they even on the park? Deary dear man, getting worse.
25 Mar 2026 15:53:08
Not sure I've seen anywhere that people are 'creaming their pants' over our two strikers. Big Exaggeration!
25 Mar 2026 15:54:56
Most on here, including myself, were delighted when we signed Miovski and hailed it as a great signing. ? His chances, to be fair, have been limited and we just never know if he stays, what he could do/achieve next season. ?
25 Mar 2026 16:08:39
Sws, Just had a look at Miovski, mate, games played 256, goals scored 86, 30 assists, 38 games for his country, 9 goals.
25 Mar 2026 16:22:50
I think we just bin them whether or not we make a loss or profit from them. We need strikers who score no matter what the tactics are or what the manager asks them to do.
Then we buy another 3 who this time might tick all the boxes of scoring, holding the ball up, and working hard. There must be strikers like that out there. ?
25 Mar 2026 16:23:28
Even if we manage to win the league, it doesn't take away from any player having to be better. What would we tell his suitors, that his personal stats don't matter because we won the league? Mystar, you can expect better from players and still support them, mate. We paid a lot of money for him, and the biggest transfers in Scotland in the last few years have been from players that won the league, but their personal stats were brilliant: Jota/Khun/O'Reilly.
I understand it's his first full season etc, but imho he's not, nor will be the natural finisher we need. Would absolutely love him to prove me wrong though. I'm not bashing him, as I actually like him, just expect a bit more, that's all.
25 Mar 2026 16:25:48
We're never going to have a settled squad if we keep changing the players every transfer window. We should be looking at 1 or 2 to bolster what we have. Give dr and the players a full pre-season together, and add that 1 or 2 beforehand.
Our biggest and most important requirement is a new Club Captain. A Sheriff on the park that will bark orders and keep the team motivated for the full 90min of every game. Someone who can and will be assertive with the officials and press.
25 Mar 2026 16:30:53
Boy blue, I know he needs to add goals, mate, hopefully that happens soon, but he has got some ability.
25 Mar 2026 16:32:05
Boy Blue, That's why I wouldn't a finisher alongside him.
25 Mar 2026 16:36:44
Yeah, no one is saying he's amazing. I think we all know where we stand on him, but for a long time now we've only had negative words to say about our players and it's meant taking loss after loss after loss in the transfer market.
For once I'd like our support to do the opposite and point out our players' good traits and have the courage to back them even when we know, to continue being successful, we need them to perform better.
We should be commenting on Chermiti's potential and the glimpses of talent he has, which I'd hope the club are doing with prospective buyers rather than just desperately trying to flog him.
I get it's a rumour/discussion forum, but isn't it sad that this is all that dominates our pages when we're in the most exciting title race in the last 15 years, at least.
25 Mar 2026 16:36:44
#Would like.
25 Mar 2026 16:40:55
So far none of the 3 have been good enough. Hopefully that will change. The way they play, if they aren't natural strikers, false 9s, 10s or whatever they get called nowadays, works if we have midfielders who score the goals regularly, but, as discussed recently, we don't have those either. We are getting away with spreading the goals at the moment, but it's not sustainable.
It has also relied on Celtic's failings to mount our challenge. Arsenal comparison, as I mentioned in a separate thread, is an interesting one, Mystar, because their lack of a proper 9 has been their big reason for failure in recent years.
25 Mar 2026 17:04:07
Scotty, we aren't taking losses on players because our fans don't rate them, mate. We're taking losses because the player himself hasn't been good enough. Players' suitors don't come on Rangers banter to see what guys are saying. They go watch them, look at their stats, etc.
If that was the case, does that mean we can add millions to a player just by saying they're brilliant on here, same as you think we can devalue saying the opposite? Where does this come from that if you want/expect a player to do better, that you're not supporting them?
25 Mar 2026 17:06:44
That's a brilliant point, Kaiser, re Arsenal and failure without an out and out finisher.
25 Mar 2026 17:16:17
Think he means we should be looking at all these positives, especially when right in the fight for the league.
25 Mar 2026 17:21:20
I know we all want to see more consistency from Chermiti, but those 2 wonder goals he scored recently. Honestly, I've never seen a player score 2 goals like that in one match.
We've got to support the big guy, I think he'll turn out to be a really good bit of business.
25 Mar 2026 17:30:13
To score the quality of goals against our 2 biggest rivals is very impressive. You don't score goals like that unless you've got something. We took a punt and you can see why at various points. Maybe Stig and Rohl will get better in the summer, but we are where we are. Sometimes, people who commit to an opinion never want to be proved wrong.
25 Mar 2026 17:31:26
Boy Blue, doing it this season though, because goals are coming from different areas in that team.
25 Mar 2026 17:33:16
According to some Chermiti will make us big money - nonsense, teams aren't paying fortunes for a guy with a 1 in 4 strike rate in the spl - according to some it doesn't matter if the strikers don't score - nonsense. Well, in that case we might as well spend a couple of hundred grand on a couple of Scottish Championship strikers who will run about all day and let the midfielders and defenders do the scoring, and, according to some, we should compare Chermiti with 9 goals so far with Morelos (not perfect by any means when he was here) - absolute nonsense, our all time top European scorer, there's no comparison.
25 Mar 2026 17:34:09
Our centre forwards aren't performing differently from what our manager is asking from them. We all know both need goals. My main concern is winning games.
25 Mar 2026 17:41:40
I don't think he's consistent enough for us. I don't think Celtic will be as bad next season. However, I don't think we'll be as bad as we have been this season either.
25 Mar 2026 18:11:56
Kaiser, you may be right about Arsenal but this year they look like they are going to win it with Gyokeres who they signed to be that out and out striker they need and who also is not doing great numbers wise in the league.
So he has 11 goals, has scored in only 8 of the 29 games he has played. So, probably like us, despite his lack of goal scoring, they seem likely to win that league.
The only team he has scored against in the top half of the league is Everton in two games; so sort of reverse of Chermiti. Both first season at new club as well, so another comparator.
So perhaps both of us are showing that without that natural high scoring number 9 we might both win a league this season.
Just another excuse for our strikers, I know, but just looked when you mentioned Arsenal.
25 Mar 2026 18:38:02
Yes, this season like them we will hopefully get away with it. Only responded to Arsenal thing because it's been the major criticism of them under Arteta of why so far they haven't won more.
Could hopefully work out for us this time, but needs addressed going forward. Celtic also have no striker, which has wrecked them despite goals from midfield. Can't rely on them to be as bad next year.
25 Mar 2026 18:47:03
Kaiser, I agree. Just seemed coincidental when you mentioned them. I still think we need more goals from all of the front 6. It has been said often that we need runners beyond the top 2 if they are coming deep. The space, when created, seems to be used only by Moore, and occasionally Gassama, to run into, but from deep with the ball rather than running onto balls.
I agree re Celtic and a few probably placing their hopes on them imploding whereas I think they will invest and improve.
25 Mar 2026 18:48:44
Angus, in all honesty I wouldn't rule out Man City again coming back and snatching the English Premier League title from Arsenal. ? By no way is this a done and dusted Arsenal league title win, mate. ?
25 Mar 2026 19:04:31
This site was better when you didn't reply. You 1st reply to me is ridiculous, yes it's what I say because that's my opinion fgs. ? Am I not allowed that opinion because you don't agree with it?
Your 2nd post, where did I say Rohl is telling them how to play? ? I said apparently he isn't telling them to be in the box scoring goals.
? You must do better.
Good posts bb4, it's not hating, I don't even think I was abusing any of the players, I thought I was being positive mostly but hey ho.
Bb4, it was a great reply to Scotty. Why would any fan think we are taking losses on players because we post on here, it blows my mind.
25 Mar 2026 19:09:27
SWS, they may well do, but 9 ahead is a big gap although City do have that game in hand. Are City a little bit less consistent as drawn the last 2 games? Will the cup final win be the spur they need? Still think it will be Arsenal though.
25 Mar 2026 23:04:37
Not ago be in the box.
25 Mar 2026 23:05:18
Angus, you are right, unfortunately Arsenal will win the league this season.
26 Mar 2026 07:31:08
I know you like Liverpool storm, but going by your post, would you prefer Man City to win the league title instead of Arsenal, mate. ?
26 Mar 2026 07:44:22
Storm unblocked, because you involve me somehow in your posts someway. Then I couldn't respond for days, so what is the point of blocking you when rent free?
26 Mar 2026 09:27:33
See the problem when I used the ignore function to block you storm, I couldn't respond to you when you brought me into post.
26 Mar 2026 11:44:51
I've not seen you abuse them, Storm, like myself expecting more mate.
26 Mar 2026 11:56:16
Thanks bb4. Just go back to blocking me, Mystar. I have been enjoying the site without your terrible responses, thanks. ?
26 Mar 2026 13:04:39
Block each other Storm, as you always bring me into your chat.