DORIN GOIAN could return for Rangers at Annan Athletic next month after his Italian club Spezia confirmed he is no longer needed. The Romanian defender is on a season-long loan at the Serie B side, but got into hot water with the Italian football authorities last month. He contested an 88th- minute winner for Juve Stabia in a 3-2 defeat so strenuously, he manhandled referee Maurizio Ciampi, who promptly sent him off âthe second time he's been red-carded since his return to Italy. Goian was handed a bumper four-match ban by the Italian Federation Disciplinary Committee who ruled that he had "tried to intimidate the referee". That was the final straw for ambitious Spezia, and their sporting director, Nelso Ricci, launched an amazing attack on Goian insisting he'd been 'my biggest disappointment, not up to the level we expected'. Now Spezia have announced they want to keep Goian for their four remaining games this year in Serie B. But after the match on December 30, when Italy start their winter break, he is free to return to Rangers. And they have already brought in Swedish defender Richard Magyar from Halmstads to replace him. A Spezia spokesman said: "We expect Goian will return to Rangers next month." That means the defender, who is contracted at Ibrox until the end of next season, could make his Third Division return for Rangers at Galabank shortly into the new year. Goian joined Rangers last summer after a two-year spell at Palermo and made 35 SPL starts last season.
He was awful at the start of the season, let's see how he's playing now with a few games under his belt. If he's still ****e then out the door he goes.
From the little that I've seen and what I've heard about Cribari, Goian could be just what Rangers need. At least it'll freshen up the squad a bit.
He's gone away for a bit, learnt The Rangers Way of assaulting and manhandling refs, so all in all he should be just the player you need
he got a 4 game ban and 2 red cards for that. the same would happen in scotland if he done that to a ref, so it would.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He even makes Dan Prodan (our last Romanian international centre back) look good value for money.
He can't. He's already played for Rangers this season, and now Spezia. You can only play for 2 clubs in one season, so he's stuck at Ibrox till June at the earliest now.
