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Rangers - 1million

Dundee utd - We want 2million

Rangers - 1.4million

Dundee utd - We want 2million

Rangers - 1million plus 400k add ons

Dundee utd - We want 2million

Rangers - 1.6million

Dundee utd - We want 2million

Blackburn - 2.8million

Dundee utd - Accepted

Rangers - 1.6million plus 500k add ons

Dundee Utd - Weve accepted a 2.8million bid for him

Rangers - We'll give you 2million as agreed then

Dundee utd - We've accepted 2.8million

Rangers - 2.1 million plus 500k add ons

Dundee utd - We've accepted 2.8million and we'd rather sell to a team outwith scotland for a better fee.

Rangers - 2.1million plus 600k add ons

Dundee utd - No. We've accepted 2.8million

Rangers - 3million

Dundee utd - We would accept that offer

Rangers - We would spread the payments over the next 5 years.

Dundee utd - No

Rangers - 1.6 million plus 600k add ons.

Dundee utd - David Goodwillie signs for Blackburn.

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Do you think Faddy will get much a look in now? Levin doesnt seem to like him that much and they fell out last year didnt they? Shame, on his day he was a Scotland talisman, just never quite got there at club level on a regular basis.

If he is going to improve the squad I'd like to think he would but it all depends on who he signs for and how he returns from injury. Having a creative player up top would be a big asset to us and is perhaps something we are lacking. He was always better for his country so whether he can play well enough a club level to deserve a call up is another thing.

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Rangers - 1million

Dundee utd - We want 2million

Rangers - 1.4million

Dundee utd - We want 2million

Rangers - 1million plus 400k add ons

Dundee utd - We want 2million

Rangers - 1.6million

Dundee utd - We want 2million

Blackburn - 2.8million

Dundee utd - Accepted

Rangers - 1.6million plus 500k add ons

Dundee Utd - Weve accepted a 2.8million bid for him

Rangers - We'll give you 2million as agreed then

Dundee utd - We've accepted 2.8million

Rangers - 2.1 million plus 500k add ons

Dundee utd - We've accepted 2.8million and we'd rather sell to a team outwith scotland for a better fee.

Rangers - 2.1million plus 600k add ons

Dundee utd - No. We've accepted 2.8million

Rangers - 3million

Dundee utd - We would accept that offer

Rangers - We would spread the payments over the next 5 years.

Dundee utd - No

Rangers - 1.6 million plus 600k add ons.

Dundee utd - David Goodwillie signs for Blackburn.

It has been a farce on Rangers end.

Really pleased for the lad as he'll get a chance at Blackburn so he's not just moving somewhere to sit on the bench. Also nice to see United stick to our guns and not just accept any old firm bet.

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It has been a farce on Rangers end.

Really pleased for the lad as he'll get a chance at Blackburn so he's not just moving somewhere to sit on the bench. Also nice to see United stick to our guns and not just accept any old firm bet.

Absolutely. Rangers have been due a reality check for a while. A massive tax bill doesn't just disappear and simply saying "but we're Rangers" is no substitute for actually paying the asking price. Up yours, Rangers.

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Rangers and Dundee United in row over striker David Goodwillie as SEVENTH Ibrox transfer bid is rejected - The Daily Record

Hilariously shit article from the Daily Rangers basically saying it's ridiculous we didn't accept one of their SEVEN (for some reason the writer keeps putting bits in block capitals) offers.

We were offered more money and they still except us to accept offers of less money in installments over 3 years?

Pathetic journalism can't believe they even put it on their website.

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Gotta love them crazy Argentinians. River Plate get relegated from their top league for the first time in history, so the Argentinian FA rush through a proposal to merge the top division and the 1st division to save River Plate's skin, and now they're kicking off next season with a 38 team league. Argentinian football is fucking nuts.

But a switch of national team coach is far from being the most significant change taking place in Argentine football as a result of the fact that Grondona is seeking another term.

Electoral year also provides the backdrop for the plan to merge Argentina's first and second divisions into a giant 38-team structure in a new-look league to kick off in a year's time.

The immediate suspicion raised was that this is a manoeuvre to reinstate River Plate in the first division.

The Buenos Aires giants were relegated a month ago, and now have an automatic pass back - providing the unthinkable does not happen and they do not drop to the third this season.

Indeed, the River Plate situation has given an extra urgency to the project. But it does not explain why last Monday 15 first division clubs voted in favour. The political attractiveness of the plan lies in the fact that it offers something for nearly everyone.

The big traditional clubs of Buenos Aires had a shock with River's relegation. Other giants, such as Boca Juniors and Independiente, were looking over their shoulders. They can now feel protected.

But the project is being sold as a profound shift in the direction of decentralising Argentine football, of limiting the historic domination of Buenos Aires by letting the provinces come to the party.

The easy response is that this is happening anyway. As this column has mentioned before, Godoy Cruz of Mendoza, near the Chilean border, have in the last three years taken big strides towards establishing themselves in the first division.

And all four promoted clubs this season are from the provinces - exemplified by River Plate's play-off defeat at the hands of Belgrano of Cordoba.

This huge expansion of the first division, then, protects the Buenos Aires clubs from the rise of the provinces, while also offering more provincial teams a shot at glory - as I say, there is something for everyone.

Except, perhaps, for those who believe in quality. Even with 20 clubs, the standard of the Argentine first division has not been high in recent years, as seen by the generally disappointing performance of the country's representatives in the Copa Libertadores, South America's Champions League.

An increase to 38 clubs would seem to be a charter for generalised mediocrity.

It is interesting that one of the four clubs who did not back the proposal were the current champions Velez Sarsfield. Widely seen as the best run club in the country, Velez have grown and grown in recent years, with a model based on good youth development and sound financial administration.

They are a club striving for excellence, and they seem unconvinced by the new formula for football in the country.

For the moment they are swimming against the tide. In addition to the other clubs, Argentina's government appear in favour of the scheme - a vital detail since the TV rights are state owned.

It is election year in the formal political structure as well, so presumably a calculation has been made that there are votes to be gained from the expansion of the first division.

But for how long? Is this new model viable in the long term?

There are clear problems. One is the fact that at the moment there are no visiting supporters in the second division - the stadiums are not seen as good enough to deal with the country's problem of fan violence.

It is hoped that a new system of personalised ID cards for supporters will save the situation - a technological solution in which the present writer has little confidence.

There is also the problem of the sheer number of meaningless games. The suggestion is as follows - in the first half of the season the teams are divided into two groups of 19.

After the league phase, the top 19 go into another league to spend the second half battling for the title, while the rest are playing to avoid relegation. In practice this could well be unwieldy and dull.

Even in theory it is not going down very well. If enough club presidents feel that their supporters are not in favour then there could even be a rethink before October's assembly - but nothing that will getm Sergio Batista his old job back.

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how the hell would a 38 team league work? you could be looking at a 74 game season before cups and continental comps are taking into consideration!

Regarding Rangers and Goodwillie, they should be ashamed of themselves, and very good on United for not being bullied about by Rangers. Its about time clubs stood up to them and stopped accepting lower bids just because they are Rangers, fuck the huns right off!!!!

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Gotta love them crazy Argentinians. River Plate get relegated from their top league for the first time in history, so the Argentinian FA rush through a proposal to merge the top division and the 1st division to save River Plate's skin, and now they're kicking off next season with a 38 team league. Argentinian football is fucking nuts.

I guess this River Plate fan was getting worked up over nothing then

‪Reactions of a Pacifist : El "Tano" Pasman.(English translation)‬‏ - YouTube

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how the hell would a 38 team league work? you could be looking at a 74 game season before cups and continental comps are taking into consideration!

Regarding Rangers and Goodwillie, they should be ashamed of themselves, and very good on United for not being bullied about by Rangers. Its about time clubs stood up to them and stopped accepting lower bids just because they are Rangers, fuck the huns right off!!!!

I think the proposal was two divisions of 19 teams play each other once. Then the top teams from each division merge and play for the top half, and the bottom teams merge and play for the bottom half. Or something ludicrous like that. Though as Woods pointed out, it seems to have been vetoed.

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Think I'll watch the Rangers game on the BBC website later, could do with a chuckle today!

God I wish the new season would start here in Engerland, still a week and a half to go!

I don't think it's on BBC website. Premier Sports have it, which is a Pay Per View site.

I may try to find a stream of it online later if I'm at a loose end. It'll be quite enjoyable watching a Rangers away game without any pictures of ugly Orcs or Union Jacks/Red Hands in the crowd :up:

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I wish that Barca would hurry up and buy Fabregas and Man Utd would buy Sneider! I'm fed up with the BBC football website being clogged up with speculation about these two deals.

Read about the transfers that are actually happening.

From Alexis Snchez to Manuel Neuer: Our European transfers round-up | Football | The Guardian

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