Pours scorn on his supposed reluctance to leave London!

GLASGOW RANGERS are poised to complete the surprise £1 million signing of Wimbledon striker Marcus Gayle according to reports. The 30-year-old forward is believed to have travelled to Glasgow on Wednesday night to hold talks with the club after Gers boss Dick Advocaat swooped for the player in a bid to ease an injury crisis at Ibrox.

Gayle, who had admitted that his future lay away from Selhurst Park, after failing to hold down a regular place in Terry Burton's starting line-up is expected to complete the move on Thursday which will treble his wages to £15,000.

Rangers moved for Gayle after injuries to strike duo Michael Mols and Ronald de Boer leaving Advocaat seriously short of options up front for the final months of the season.

The former Brentford ace has struggled this season in Division One with Wimbledon finding the net only once in 19 games but Advocaat will hope that Gayle can recapture the form, which made one of the best strikers in The Premiership.

-- Anonymous, March 08, 2001

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Why do you need to treble his wages ?

Dalglish did this, and boasted about it when he took Berkovic to Celtic. It was like it was a macho thing to spend all the clubs money ...."West Ham only paid the guy £8000 per week ew've nearly tripled that to £22000 per week".

-- Anonymous, March 08, 2001

It may seem perverse, but it will be to tie in with their overall wage structure. If they were to bring Gayle in on £5000 pw, while every other senior pro is earning say a minimum of £15k, it would take Gayle about one week to find this out and become totally disenchanted with his lot and switch off - it's human nature.

-- Anonymous, March 08, 2001

Whatever happened to that Lovenkrands fella that we were interested in but decided to joining Rangers?

-- Anonymous, March 08, 2001

serves him right

-- Anonymous, March 08, 2001

He'd have probably started bucket loads of games for us this year! Great decision there!

-- Anonymous, March 08, 2001

DeBuilder, forget Elevengrand , at this stage of his career I would place him on a par with Brady

-- Anonymous, March 08, 2001

Buff I've got to disagree, he looks hopeless, he'll never be a Liam Brady in a million years

:0)

-- Anonymous, March 08, 2001

It's not just Lowenkrands, though, is it? Along with permanently injured Cort and worrying Luax2 there was the extraordinary attempts we made to sign a striker in the close season.

Why did we pull out of the attempt to sign Eidur Gudjohnsen when his fee went up to 5Mil but went back 3 times for Craig Bellamy at 6Mil? Gudjohnsen joined Chelsea for 5mil while Coventry paid 6.5mil for Bellamy. When you see how things have gone for these two:

EG has played 28 times for Chelsea and scored 10 goals
CB has played 30 for Coventry and scored 6 goals

EG has serious competition for his place at Chelsea whilst Bellamy fits in perfectly with a crap squad.

Most annoying is that when you look at their respective records for the Division 1 sides they were in, it becomes even harder to work out why we were prepared to stump up more for CB than EG.

EG at Bolton scored 26 goals in 73 appearances.
CB at Norwich scored 33 goals in 91 appearances.

Which one would you pay 6mil for?

-- Anonymous, March 08, 2001