What mainly affects a player from settling in at a new club?

At the moment, Rangers currently have Alejandro Bedoya keeping Landon Donavon out of the USA gold cup team and Matt McKay winning Australian POTY ahead of the likes of Tim Cahill yet neither seem to produce the goods for us. I know that in saying this, there will be many immature replies saying Rangers are shite lo lo lo etc, but it happens to all teams. That big players just fail to shine, what do you think is at the forefront of this?

Living in Glasgow might have something to do with it.

Rangers are shite lo lo lo

Thankfully Chelsea wouldnt know anything about that...

Rangers are shite lo lo lo

Some players have to have quality around them to perform well. It's a team game.

Unfortunately for the 2 mentioned, they do not have this quality around them.

Away from family/homesickness, don't like living in another country?

Tacitcs play a vital part. Just look at Andy Carroll at Liverpool. He's come to a team that mostly plays a style of football he doesn't fit in with, obviously he's going to struggle to perform to his best. Further their ability to adapt to a new country, new food, and a new culture would play a large role. Scotland is quite different from the US or Australia after all.

In addition I would imagine they could be intimidated by the expecations placed on them as well, and that the manager is very much key to how well they will adapt. If the manager is a good leader and man manager, then the adaption period will be short and easy, if not things will be notably slower.

In some cases the players who fail to perform were never good enough to begin with.

Realising the move you made was shit

Laurencio wrote:Tacitcs play a vital part. Just look at Andy Carroll at Liverpool. He's come to a team that mostly plays a style of football he doesn't fit in with, obviously he's going to struggle to perform to his best. Further their ability to adapt to a new country, new food, and a new culture would play a large role. Scotland is quite different from the US or Australia after all.

In addition I would imagine they could be intimidated by the expecations placed on them as well, and that the manager is very much key to how well they will adapt. If the manager is a good leader and man manager, then the adaption period will be short and easy, if not things will be notably slower.

In some cases the players who fail to perform were never good enough to begin with.

Glad we've got some people on here who actually talk sense, people like you keep the forum going. Grats.

Though keeping Donavon out of the national team & winning Aussie POTY means they obviously aren't shit.

Transfer speculation is a part of this too. Constantly trying to get your agent to get you the hell out of Glasgow must take it's toll.

Lu❣s Suarez wrote:Transfer speculation is a part of this too. Constantly trying to get your agent to get you the hell out of Glasgow must take it's toll.

Bitter.

I think the real issue is you've over rated the players.

Making points like he beat Cahill to Australian player of the year .. Would you rather have him in your team than Cahill?

Also Bedoya just isn't a good player.

Jelavic9|RFC wrote:

Lu❣s Suarez wrote:Transfer speculation is a part of this too. Constantly trying to get your agent to get you the hell out of Glasgow must take it's toll.

Bitter.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bitter

The Maestro wrote:I think the real issue is you've over rated the players.

Making points like he beat Cahill to Australian player of the year .. Would you rather have him in your team than Cahill?

Also Bedoya just isn't a good player.

USA manager must think differently & so must the entire Australian national team.

Lu❣s Suarez wrote:

Jelavic9|RFC wrote:

Bitter.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bitter

You can use a search engine, well done.

Also the players are aware they are on a sinking ship, destined for doom.

The Maestro wrote:Also the players are aware they are on a sinking ship, destined for doom.

Considering we are the most successful club in football history, 3 in a row title winners + have an incredibly rich owner ... then I think we're pretty much set.

+ We were 8 points behind in February of last season and still won the league so yeh, we're sinking.

Jelavic9|RFC wrote:

The Maestro wrote:Also the players are aware they are on a sinking ship, destined for doom.

Considering we are the most successful club in football history, 3 in a row title winners + have an incredibly rich owner ... then I think we're pretty much set.

+ We were 8 points behind in February of last season and still won the league so yeh, we're sinking.

No emoticon, gif, or words can describe how hilarious you are.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/football/spl/2012/01/09/rangers-star-nikica-jelavic-admits-he-could-be-sacrificed-to-ease-the-club-s-debts-86908-23690291/

http://videocelts.com/2012/01/blogs/jelavic-confirms-rangers-debt-problem

If you have this amazingly rich owner, howcome you are in debt?

Amazingly rich owner that seems to dodge taxes.

I wonder how he got rich..

Same sport different country. There should be no excuses.

+ Rangers are shite lo lo lo

The Maestro wrote:

Jelavic9|RFC wrote:

Considering we are the most successful club in football history, 3 in a row title winners + have an incredibly rich owner ... then I think we're pretty much set.

+ We were 8 points behind in February of last season and still won the league so yeh, we're sinking.

No emoticon, gif, or words can describe how hilarious you are.

Yeh, neither can you missing out the main point of the post

Mason_Inzaghi wrote:http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/football/spl/2012/01/09/rangers-star-nikica-jelavic-admits-he-could-be-sacrificed-to-ease-the-club-s-debts-86908-23690291/

http://videocelts.com/2012/01/blogs/jelavic-confirms-rangers-debt-problem

If you have this amazingly rich owner, howcome you are in debt?

Because the tax case is in court, he can't pay it yet because we don't yet owe anything. Only if we are found guilty. The club has no debt, they could possibly. But this happened before Whyte came in.

The club couldn't pay a players fees, he had to get his family in Nigeria to help him fund his own move to Rangers. That's how dire Rangers financial position is, and how much money Craig Whyte has. Craig Whyte was also banned as a director for seven years, something which he initially denied but later admitted.

In March a decision will be made by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, which will result in Rangers having to pay a £49M tax bill. Something the club have admitted will definately plunge them into administration. It's only a matter of time.

And Jela says .. I think we're pretty much set

Jelavic9|RFC wrote:

The Maestro wrote:Also the players are aware they are on a sinking ship, destined for doom.

Considering we are the most successful club in football history, 3 in a row title winners + have an incredibly rich owner ... then I think we're pretty much set.

+ We were 8 points behind in February of last season and still won the league so yeh, we're sinking.

Pretty sure there's paralympic football teams better than Rangers

The Maestro wrote:The club couldn't pay a players fees, he had to get his family in Nigeria to help him fund his own move to Rangers. That's how dire Rangers financial position is, and how much money Craig Whyte has. Craig Whyte was also banned as a director for seven years, something which he initially denied but later admitted.

In March a decision will be made by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, which will result in Rangers having to pay a £49M tax bill. Something the club have admitted will definately plunge them into administration. It's only a matter of time.

And Jela says .. I think we're pretty much set

That's how we paid £250k yesterday for Celik.

I would love to see Jela's reaction if Rangers went into administration.

Mason_Inzaghi wrote:I would love to see Jela's reaction if Rangers went into administration.

He would jump ship as usual

Jelavic9|RFC wrote:

The Maestro wrote:The club couldn't pay a players fees, he had to get his family in Nigeria to help him fund his own move to Rangers. That's how dire Rangers financial position is, and how much money Craig Whyte has. Craig Whyte was also banned as a director for seven years, something which he initially denied but later admitted.

In March a decision will be made by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, which will result in Rangers having to pay a £49M tax bill. Something the club have admitted will definately plunge them into administration. It's only a matter of time.

And Jela says .. I think we're pretty much set

That's how we paid £250k yesterday for Celik.

You paid absolutely nothing.

You have yet to pay them their money

His former club, Swedish top flight side GAIS, are entitled to £250,000 in training compensation for the 21-year-old and have expressed their desire to claim the full amount.