Confirmed Signing Nathan Patterson

[OneTrueLegend]

I’m presuming if we are signing this guy and the fact we have already spent money on a new left back, we must be planning on selling Digne for decent money to cover these costs? From what I have read we are paying £9m for Patterson, then as much as £7m additional based on appearances and achievements. As we signed Mykolenko for £18m, not sure on the split of that but would imagine we need to sell Digne for £25m to break even. Given the interest in him from Chelsea, inter Milan, Newcastle, etc I think that should be achievable. But then the rest of our deals would be loans, unless we get someone else out of the door

 

[Pabbers]

I’m presuming if we are signing this guy and the fact we have already spent money on a new left back, we must be planning on selling Digne for decent money to cover these costs? From what I have read we are paying £9m for Patterson, then as much as £7m additional based on appearances and achievements. As we signed Mykolenko for £18m, not sure on the split of that but would imagine we need to sell Digne for £25m to break even. Given the interest in him from Chelsea, inter Milan, Newcastle, etc I think that should be achievable. But then the rest of our deals would be loans, unless we get someone else out of the door

All depends on what we are paying upfront for the players, and Dignes book value.

Its never as straightforward as we want is it.

 

[EvertonGer]

I am a Rangers fan born and bread who Everton is my 2nd team. Followed them since Walter Smith took over and never stopped after he left. Trust me Everton are getting a fantastic RB in the making. He hasn't featured much for Rangers this season but the fans have been calling for him to play. He is very pacey, a good defender and reads the game really well. IF this goes through this is a fantastic move for Nathan and for Everton. If Everton waited until next year to buy him it would be at least double.

 

[maccavennie]

Hopefully signed in time for Saturday.

Ideal game for him and Mykelenko to get some minutes and get acclimatised to the pace of English togger with it being an FA Cup game.

 

[bluesb1970]

My mate has a season ticket at Rangers and said he’s very much in the mould of Gary Stevens

 

[Thomasc]

All these positive posts about him from actual Rangers fans are very encouraging.

Then we have opinion of the forum’s resident arse clown @davek who is once again showing what an embarrassment to this forum he is.

 

[Eggs]

I am a Rangers fan born and bread who Everton is my 2nd team. Followed them since Walter Smith took over and never stopped after he left. Trust me Everton are getting a fantastic RB in the making. He hasn't featured much for Rangers this season but the fans have been calling for him to play. He is very pacey, a good defender and reads the game really well. IF this goes through this is a fantastic move for Nathan and for Everton. If Everton waited until next year to buy him it would be at least double.

….thanks for the insight, Matey. I’ve been particularly impressed with his international performances where he appears very composed for one so young & inexperienced. He has the quality to ‘join in’ and link with teammates and they show confidence in him by giving him possession.

interesting you say he’s fast (a big bonus) & a good defender as some of us have noted a few defensive frailties. I’m of a view that aspect of his game will definitely improve with experience but good that you think he’s decent at this point.

 

[Dublin blue 75]

Excited based off what I have seen of him including a cracking individual goal for Scotland recently. However, the fee quoted for a player with such little experience indicates we continue to be a soft touch in the transfer market.

By way of comparison, Celtic signed a CB Liam Scales from Shamrock Rovers last August. Decent young player at League of Ireland level and had been playing U21 for national side for a fee of 500K. They gave him his league debut early December and he has now started the last two SPL games and has scored too. Where is our equivalent scouting network in identifying and signing sub 1m prospects (Gray and Townsend’s age counts them out of that) as opposed to blowing close to 20m each on a pair of unproven (in the PL at least) full backs? On yesterday’s evidence Scales would have been infinitely better than Keane or Holgate also.

The signing of two such expensive full backs simultaneously is quite the roll of the dice. If it backfires, we will be selling one or both of DCL and Richy this summer to balance the books.

 

[nsno-chris]

I am a Rangers fan born and bread who Everton is my 2nd team. Followed them since Walter Smith took over and never stopped after he left. Trust me Everton are getting a fantastic RB in the making. He hasn't featured much for Rangers this season but the fans have been calling for him to play. He is very pacey, a good defender and reads the game really well. IF this goes through this is a fantastic move for Nathan and for Everton. If Everton waited until next year to buy him it would be at least double.

So he’s not a winger as @davek seems to think he is

 

[Bluestar]

Excited based off what I have seen of him including a cracking individual goal for Scotland recently. However, the fee quoted for a player with such little experience indicates we continue to be a soft touch in the transfer market.

By way of comparison, Celtic signed a CB Liam Scales from Shamrock Rovers last August. Decent young player at League of Ireland level and had been playing U21 for national side for a fee of 500K. They gave him his league debut early December and he has now started the last two SPL games and has scored too. Where is our equivalent scouting network in identifying and signing sub 1m prospects (Gray and Townsend’s age counts them out of that) as opposed to blowing close to 20m each on a pair of unproven (in the PL at least) full backs? On yesterday’s evidence Scales would have been infinitely better than Keane or Holgate also.

The signing of two such expensive full backs simultaneously is quite the roll of the dice. If it backfires, we will be selling one or both of DCL and Richy this summer to balance the books.

If we don’t make signings and things continue to go badly, we we’ll be selling a lot more than them.

 

[EvertonGer]

….thanks for the insight, Matey. I’ve been particularly impressed with his international performances where he appears very composed for one so young & inexperienced. He has the quality to ‘join in’ and link with teammates and they show confidence in him by giving him possession.

interesting you say he’s fast (a big bonus) & a good defender as some of us have noted a few defensive frailties. I’m of a view that aspect of his game will definitely improve with experience but good that you think he’s decent at this point.

He has done really well for Scotland so far and already scored for the national team.

It's been unfortunate for Nathan at Rangers his position is the captain's position so he has not got a chance. In an ideal world I would love for him to stay at Rangers and flourish here. But its not a secret that Rangers are not in the best financial position. This move is best for Rangers and for Nathan and also a fantastic piece of business for Everton so its win win win.

He is a massive upgrade to jonjoe kenny already (he spent the last half of the season in Scotland last year and was terrible).

 

[EvertonGer]

So he’s not a winger as @davek seems to think he is

He has played a couple games on the wing due to the fact his position is Rangers captains. We had a massive problem of trying to get both of them into the starting 11 as Nathan was far to good not to be played. He is far better suited at RB.

 

[Rich1878]

I'm in

Don't know much about him, but going off that vid, I have to say he looks pretty decent! Can finish also ?

 

[Brizzletoffee]

This the player brands wanted in the summer?

 

[Rich1878]

This the player brands wanted in the summer?

Yes