After more than a month training and trying to impress Clement, Barron goes into Tuesday’s Champions League qualifier away to Dinamo Kiev knowing that his manager would rather have Lundstram on his team sheet.
Stewart has been the target for many campaigns by Ibrox fans, concerned that he has the independence of thought that he is clearly missing from others employed by Radio Scotland such as Kenny Miller, McCulloch, Billy Dodds and Steven Thompson.
Over the last week the Belgian Beale has been back on message, on Friday he added another year to his contract with the media messengers keen to emphasise what a great show of commitment this is.
The registration process is unclear, clubs might submit their squads directly to UEFA or more likely through the SFA to ensure that all of the players are indeed signed and contracted. Sandy Bryson has previous.
Where are we now? It was probably three or four days after the Euros when we went out to Germany. That was probably the first time.
At the age of 28 Gazdag doesn’t fall into the Project category of signing and suggests that the club does have an active Recruitment Department profiling players to see who fits the requirements of Brendan Rodgers.
During the trip to the USA Rodgers name checked Michael Nicholson and Chris McKay as the men conducting transfer business which went largely uncommented on. Neither are genuine frontline football people, certainly with no experience in the recruitment side.
The last promising batch of prospects included Tony Ralston, Stephen Welsh and Mikey Johnston who have had some moments but seven years after their debuts Ralston and Johnston haven’t established a place in the first team under three different managers.
Having introduced Whyte followed by Green as club ownesr another chapter in the Banter Years opens up as Robin Proper is introduced to the angry bears.
With matchday income down due to the closure of Ibrox alongside the costs of hiring Hampden the last thing that Bennett requires is a £10m bill crystallising from the Dave King era.