And did Stuart Findlay(whoever he is) get told by his previous manager that he was making the wrong choice for his footballing development when he left the club?
typical Rangers fan showing his lack of knowledge about Scotch football … Stuart Findlay plays for Kilmarnock and the Scotch! … FYI, he has never had any connection with Charlton... I find it strange that the Rangers fans are gloating about a player who was actually developed by Charlton... ask Chelsea how good we are with developing players as we are currently making one of their youth players a direct replacement for Lampard who in my opinion was always streets ahead of Steven 'no slip ups' Gerrard
I don't think that he had a previous club. You're entitled to celebrate being the club which benefits from Douchatelet's stupidity. Why worry about Bowyer's views on the move?
by the way, I personally agree with Bow, Rangers was a poor move for Aribo (other than being vastly overpaid) if he had gone to a club like Everton or Bournemouth he would be talked about as an England player by now rather than playing for the International version of Rangers. Has he developed faster under 'No slip ups' than he would have under Bow... has he fvck!
@monacoger What was interesting on Twitter yesterday was the way several big Rangers accounts took the opportunity to goad Charlton fans after Aribo scored against Brazil. The gist of the inane commentary was the claim Aribo had improved so much already under “the Legend” ...even though the legend has still won nothing as a manager, and came a very poor second last season ...in a dire two horse race. It’s almost as if Lee Bowyer’s comments about the standard of the SPL hit a nerve with many Rangers fans The bottom line is that Rangers haven’t produced a home grown player who has gone on to have a successful career in England for ....how long? 25 years. That’s why you have to basically bribe young talent up from the lower leagues in England. There’s nothing clever or strategic about paying the likes of Joe Aribo £20,000 a week in order to beat Livingstone four time’s a season.
Rangers are paying Aribo £20,000 per week to play in a league which has a similar standard to the National League in England, no wonder Joe went £20k per week to play park football, he's having a laugh! The Scotch even allow clubs in their top league to play on plastic pitches and they are surprised that Europe makes them enter the first qualifying rounds to the European Cup.... really?
Maybe it also hits a raw nerve that Douchatelet has messed up again, and that we saw it coming. We've only got Gallagher for a year.
The best way for the Turbot to get Independence for the Scotch would be for her to suggest that the English be included in the vote... there would be a landslide vote to leave!
I think most of you are missing my point. My point was that Bowyer pretty much said Aribo's development would stall/go backwards at Rangers. That clearly isn't the case. I don't know any Rangers fans that claim the Scottish League is of great quality(although still weird that Pukki couldn't score in a barrel of fannies in Scotland but manages it in England no problem). What Rangers does give Aribo is European football and now he plays in Internationals. As for the plastic pitches comment. I'm sure no footballers like playing on plastic pitches, as pretty much they are ****, but Scotland are hardly the only country to have them. Rangers played on one in Bern the other week in the Europa League.
Charlton's previous export to Rangers was one Francis fox-in-the-box Jeffers. Didn't he fail to trouble the scorers in 14 appearances?
To be honest, most Charlton fans have got over Aribo. He left because Rangers paid him 20000 to 25000 pound per week. Not because he wanted to play in the Scottish League. He served his purpose with us by getting us promoted. I love watching Conor Gallagher who is a class above Aribo and a future England international. Aribo will probably get an offer from a lesser Club in the Premiership or a Leeds or Derby in The Championship and be gone by the Summer.
Isn’t this “European football” stuff another red herring? Where’s the benefit of starting your season in July, and playing 4 rounds of qualifiers against part timers from Latvia and Estonia? Didn’t Rangers (from memory) quality against a part time side from Northern Ireland ? How has Aribo benefited from that? You are one of the more rational Rangers posters. The cretins on Twitter claiming that “the Legend” has turned Aribo into N’Golo Kante in the space of three months are cringeworthy. “The Legend” will also flee Scottish football as soon as he can.
yeah not one of our better signings. It was kind of strange what happened to his "career" considering he started off well. No, I wouldn't say it is a red herring. Whilst the qualifiers aren't exactly going to challenge him, surely playing against the teams in our group, Feyenoord, Porto and Young Boys of Bern can only improve him, as it is a step up from both the Scottish League and the Championship? In fact, even one of our qualifiers was against Legia Warsaw, who aren't exactly mugs. I suppose we will never know for sure if he would have improved more by staying in the Championship rather than moving to Rangers. One thing is for sure, it must be not a bad feeling scoring against Brazil.
No. Seemingly the likes of Villa and another premier league team came in for him along with Championship teams.
