Francesco Stella - anyone remember the lad?
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ForzaLaudrup
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Yes
Never played a competitive minute for us if I remember correctly.
Was one of these players that somehow got better with every minute that he never played
Never played a competitive minute for us if I remember correctly.
Was one of these players that somehow got better with every minute that he never played
Uncle Albert
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Strange signing he never got a chance
Northampton Lodger
I love honking my horn
Think he looked a bit like Silva.
Horrendous footballer.
Coffee Talk
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Matt Mckay syndrome
last minute signing
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Hadn’t kicked his arse before signing for his, didn’t kick his arse after leaving.
Be interesting to follow the money and see what agents were paid what during that period and where the money finally ended up.
Uncle Albert
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Must have been incredibly poor to not even get a game during that era
55degreesnorth
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If I hadn't have seen him drinking a fresh orange and lemonade in the Burnbrae not long after signing, I'd have struggled to remember he existed.
Bristol_bnose3
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He'd be an totally inadequate professional footballer for fun up here.
From what I remember he turned in stella performance in that game
Northampton Lodger
I love honking my horn
Definitely a resemblance.
orjan_persson
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CoplandTel
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Don’t remember this guy at all !
EricBoAnderson
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Marcus Gayle laughs at this guy's Rangers career.
JayDee
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You mean he'd been drinking Stella?
mdingwall
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I think Marcus made his debut at Capelle in Holland during a pre-season game which i was at. Did he score that night?
I remember him but was more the joke @the_people said at the time.
I wouldn't know him if I passed in the street.
I wouldn't know him if I passed in the street.
Disgrace this took 15 posts!
JorgeCampos
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He did not. He was perhaps our last player to be signed before the transfer window was introduced.
He came into a struggling Rangers side and his debut was a 2-0 home defeat to Dundee with Caniggia scoring for Dundee.
Craigie
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Gayle signed during the season and left and the end of the same season.
Not sure he would have been here for a pre season.
Bristol_bnose3
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Big Joke New
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No doubt he was Reassuringly Expensive
EricBoAnderson
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I'm sure Gayle was signed in March and made his debut in a midweek defeat at Ibrox but I could be wrong! He just always sticks out as one of our most baffling signings Advocaat had truly lost the plot at the time.
Macdonsj
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at least we got the money back on him
as for earlier names:
Toral was a loan so i'm not too bothered, some work and some don't
McKay was bizarre, another one brought in, barely used and jettisoned only to disappear
then we get the even more bizarre Matt Crooks - played twice - sold for a handful of button - then eventually sold for £1.3m to Middlesboro and then £1m to the US league
Elm1872
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From Wiki.
Gayle initially stayed loyal to the Dons in spite of their relegation, playing 32 league games and scoring three times in the 2000–01 campaign before he finally departed on 9 March 2001 in a £1million move to Scottish Premier League giants Rangers. He made his debut against Dundee United, adding just another three more appearances, before moving back down south to join Gianluca Vialli's new look Watford side for £1million.
mdingwall
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It’s all part of the Rangers Story.
Reynold
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Can't you hear me yell-a?
You're putting me through hell-a!
STELLA!!
Would've loved the lad to have been a success, if only to see 50,000 bears passionately belting this out.
the_people
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Th
Think he served me in Tesco once.
