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I wanted us in for him when he left Utd so it's definitely a yes for me as well

Good player, but again, I just dont think we need to be bringing in many more guys of this quality really.

We need bodies to fill holes and gaps now. Gomis would be a first teamer surely, and what kind of wage will he be on at a club that just missed out on the Premier least season

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Are Birmingham not quite skint? I would imagine that it would be a pay cut but maybe not as big a one as you might think.

I think bringing in players of this quality is an attempt to prepare for the future. We have a transfer embargo starting soon so we need quality, experienced pros to assist the younger players in getting us up through the divisions as quickly as possible. Also the rumours about a SPL2 would suggest that we could end up needing better players sooner.

Aye Stevie, according to the Bhoys, the SPL is being restructured especially for us!!!

So we'll need this calibre of player next season (their never wrong, after all).

"and what kind of wage will he be on at a club that just missed out on the Premier least season "

Alot less than Goian was raping off us

I don't think it's on a free? I thought he was a strong, decent player and I'd give it a thumbs up, depending on price.

Cracking player, one of the better guys to emerge in the SPL in recent years
It;s a yes from me too!

And disagree on the "let's buy division 2 quality players" to get us up the leagues, because at the end of the day, noone will be happy if we don't make promotion this year, and likewise, in every division until we're back in the SPL...
You don't have that quick success by hoping that guys of a similar quality to those they're playing against manage to gel as a team and carry a bit of luck...
And you also don;t do it by buying a new team every single season.
We want to be an SPL club, so the quickest way to do that, is to get a solid SPL-quality squad and have them play together week in, week out for a few years.
Then we won;t be on catchup when it comes to top flight football again

Hope we get him

"we cannot hope we get promoted and then change an entire side in one window"

We have a nucleus of SPL quality players at the club already......I'd be in uproar if the squad we have right now doesnt get promoted, let alone adding Gomis and umpteen other ex Serie A, ex Ligue 1, ex Bundesliga, ex wherever else.

Its the third division we are trying to win here.....part time clubs we are up against, and that'll mainly be the same in the second division....if we go up in the next three successive seasons, I'll guarantee you the team we have now will be utterly different to the team that kicks off out first SPL season, guarantee you that.

It's a yes from me Simon

St3vie - so let's say Alexander, Wallace, McCulloch etc all pick up injuries.
We've got hee haw to cover them. So you're saying we pick up second division standard players to sit on our bench for a season and a half (unless injuries force them to have to come into the team) and tell them to poke it?

Aye, I'm sure a bunch of lads will be well up for that

brooklyn

We've got Alexander, Broadfoot, Cole, Perry, Wallace, Black, Hutton, McCulloch, Sheils, Hemmings, Kyle, Little, McKay, Naismith and Sandaza.....all either SPL players or players that were deemed good enough to be on the fringes of an SPL team.....thats 15 players there, whats the chances of ALL of them getting injured???

That list doesnt include McLeod who's getting a game and looking ok, Bocanegra who is still there, the lad Mitchell, about at least another 5 young lads, and also the guys we have just brought in Cribari, Faure and possibly this other keeper.

I'm not saying we dont need bodies, we do....but do we really need SPL quality bodies....really??

The point is, if a guy can stand out in the first or second division then he is more than capable of doing a job in the third and second divisions, and also, with better players around them, these guys will also likely improve too. Not only that, but they will have experience of playing in this country, in these leagues.....some tally or some frenchman might not have a clue about how physical these leagues are, how many kicks they will have to take, how many cloggers and strong big burly players they will face.

I just dont think we need to be going after Championship or ex top league around Europe players in order to have the advantage and higher level of squad needed to progress us over the next couple of years.....we need good players, but we dont need guys from a level we just dropped down four divisions from....Gomis was a candidate to sign for us when we were SPL title contenders!!

Bit of perspective needs to be applied somewhere....Gomis is not needed in my opinion, I'd take him, but no more of his calibre is needed, we have enough SPL quality players here, what we need now is gap fillers, and every single club has them.

People will come to us from other clubs in these divisions because we are Rangers and can pay a bit more in wages.....we dont need to be paying SPL wages to everyone

Gomis was a good player at DU. I'd take hime if a deal can be done. We could do with a midfielder or two.

One season in the 3rd we have done our time, miss out div2 promoted to spl2 back in the SPL a year sooner.

All Because of Integrity

Sledgehammer to smash a peanut i dont think rangers have learned a thing!! But hey ho what would i know

well as has been stated we cant sign another player until Jan 2014 by which time we could be in SPL2

The players signed to date have been free and the wages paid will not be more in total that Steve Davis got.

"The players signed to date have been free and the wages paid will not be more in total that Steve Davis got."

The total Steve Davis got would likely pay an entire squad full of the opposition we are up against

at the moment Stevie but who knows in 12 months.