Blue Sea of Ibrox [FM14]

I've decided that I'm going to concentrate on life at Rangers Charlie as I'm determined to win TEN consecutive Scottish Premiership crowns (as I'm sure you know) before considering what to do afterwards - I'd love this career to remain until FM15 comes out.

Absolutely Dan but believe it or not, I'm still enjoying it.



The penultimate month of twenty twenty one saw us play just two league games and win them all - the month started with a four two win away to Inverness and beat Motherwell two nil at Ibrox.

As for our Champions League group stages - two games were played and we picked up maximum points in both games at Ibrox as A.C. Milan were defeated four two and despite going a goal down, Atletico Madrid were hammered five one. We also progressed in the Scottish Cup, beating Queen of the South away from home.


We have a ten point gap at the summit after winning both league games this month as we remain clear of Celtic who still occupy second spot.


So with us winning both games this month, I have been named Manager of the Month as Inverness and Motherwell were both defeated in the league. I've now lost count on how many MotM awards I have won in this career and I honestly can't be bothered to count.

Six Premiership games were played throughout the final month of twenty twenty one and our unbeaten league form continued as my charges defeated Hibernian, St. Johnstone, Hearts, St. Mirren, Aberdeen and drew at home to Celtic.

The side concluded the group stages with an excellent 6-3 away win at Kobenhavn and our reward for progressing from the group is a first knockout stage game against Manchester City.


With twenty league games played, we find ourselves currently fourteen points clear of Celtic who still occupy second place and are twelve clear of third placed Aberdeen. Despite being ninth, Inverness have only won two league games and lost five.


December's Player of the Month has been won by Barrie McKay as the winger struck four times in six appearances and had been in excellent form - his team mates Hervin Ongenda and Fraser Aird came second and third in the PotM awards for the month.


I've been named Manager of the Month for December after I guided my Rangers side to five victories from the six games - drawing one game vs. Celtic that ended three all.

The New Year saw us face four Scottish Premiership league games with three of those at Ibrox and we won them all, conceding just the once. Twenty twenty two started with a two nil win away to Partick Thistle before the charges defeated Ross County four nil, Dundee United three one and Inverness two nil, all at Ibrox.

January concluded with a six one League Cup victory over St. Mirren at Hampden Park as Predrag Opsenica, Barrie McKay (2), Lewis Baker and Hervin Ongenda (2) all got on target to set up a final date against fierce rivals Celtic in March.


The league title still isn't a guarantee yet despite sitting eleven points clear at the top of the table as Celtic just won't clear off but I know that if we don't slip up many times in the final fourteen games then we'll be champions for the seventh consecutive Scottish Premiership season.


Once again I have been named Manager of the Month after guiding the side to an unbeaten month as we also kept three clean sheets in the process against Partick, Ross County and Inverness.

Five league games were played in the month of February - four of them away from home as our unbeaten run continued. Things started with a three one win at Hibernian before our one and only home game this month saw St. Johnstone get beat five one, a 0-0 draw at Celtic followed before away wins at Motherwell and St. Mirren concluded the month.

In the Scottish Cup fifth round, the side eased past Berwick Rangers, winning four one at Ibrox and then our first knockout stage first leg at home to Manchester City saw us slip to a single goal defeat despite being the better side.


Our excellent domestic form has already seen us score over one hundred goals with nine league games remaining as we still haven't suffered a league defeat but at the bottom, things aren't looking rosy for Partick Thistle who could suffer relegation.


Barrie McKay has been named Player of the Month after the twenty seven year old had been in excellent form and helped himself to three goals in five appearances while his team mate and striker Hervin Ongenda came second in the monthly awards.


Full back Billy McCabe has wowed fans this month as he's been named Young Player of the Month as the twenty year old had produced a number of eye-catching performances over the course of February.


As per the norm, I once again have been named the Scottish Premiership's Manager of the Month after guiding the side to four league victories from five games this month.

Still going very strong mate! Celtic every so often getting a win/draw against you!

Thanks for the comment George, yeah we're still going strong and looking good for a seventh Scottish Premiership crown, it's just a shame the comments have died down.



Three league games were played this month and the unbeaten run continued ( yes, how "boring" ) as we defeated Hearts three nil at Ibrox, Ross County two one in Dingwall and our final league game of the month saw us crush Aberdeen six nil at home, Jairo Riedewald netting a hat trick and that's not bad for a central defender - Barrie McKay, an own goal and Stephen Bell were also on target.

Our run in this seasons Champions League came to a crashing halt as we slipped to a 4-0 second leg defeat away to Manchester City (5-0 on aggregate) but the League Cup was secured, beating Celtic in the final thanks to second half goals from Stephen Bell and Predrag Opsenica.


We are closing in on a seventh consecutive Scottish Premiership crown as we currently sit sixteen points clear of second placed Celtic with six games remaining and we've the superior goal difference - +87 to Celtic's +46 hut we're both going to be in next seasons Champions League.


It's probably down to his hat trick vs. Aberdeen, but Jairo Riedewald has been named Player of the Month for March as the twenty five year old has been in scintillating form and helped himself to four goals in three games, his fellow centre back, Miroslav Zoranovic came third.


Billy McCabe has scooped the Young Player of the Month award as the twenty year old right back had played consistently over the course of the month.


Manager of the Month once again, woo, go me. The award was won after I guided the side to three victories in as many games this month.

How are the regens you are getting through? Considering how great the Rangers set up is are you getting at least one future first 11 player per year?

I've only had about three/four players worthwhile coming through with around two being regular KG Watson and they're Billy McCabe and Stephen Bell, the rest have been horse crap.



The penultimate month of the season saw us suffer our first league defeat, crashing to an undeserved 4-2 defeat at home to Dundee United but we did win the other three league games as Partick Thistle were beat 2-1, Aberdeen 2-0 and fierce rivals Celtic 3-1 at Ibrox.

We advanced to the Scottish Cup final, hammering Stranraer 6-1 in the semi final.


So with just two games remaining we are closing on breaking the one hundred point barrier (again) and we've already scored well over one hundred goals. Partick Thistle have been relegated to the Championship.


Central midfielder Predrag Opsenica has been named Player of the Month for April as the twenty five year old has been in excellent form, scoring three times in four appearances.


Once again I have been named Manager of the Month for April despite losing a game.

The twenty twenty one/twenty twenty two season concluded with two league games and a Scottish Cup final. We would conclude the league campaign with two single goal victories against Ross County as Hervin Ongenda struck the winner at Dingwall and Inverness in which Ryan Gauld scored on sixty two minutes.

We failed to win the Scottish Cup though as Celtic won the final 2-1 much to my annoyance as we lost Billy McCabe to a red card at 0-0 iirc and then Ryan Gauld forced extra time with an equaliser fourteen minutes from time but Celtic struck an extra time winner and it wasn't to be.


So once again we have been crowned champions with Celtic finishing as runners-up (again) and will be joining us in the Champions League (again) while Aberdeen, Dundee United, Ross County and Inverness have qualified for next seasons Europa League. Partick Thistle have been relegated while St. Johnstone are in the relegation/promotion play-off.


Despite having THREE years to run on my current deal, I have signed a two year contract extension and I will remain at the club until May 2027 and could see me remain at the club for over a decade.

Well done mate, looks like you are set for another 100+ point season!

We beat the one hundred point total Dan, as expected I suppose.



Barrie McKay has been named Players' Player of the Year after the twenty seven year old helped set up twenty eight goals in thirty five appearances and the winger also chipped in with twenty one league goals.


Winger Ryan Gauld has been named Scottish Footballer of the Year, twenty six year old Gauld set up twenty seven goals in thirty five appearances but the only (slightly) dissppointing thing is that he only scored ten times in the league.


Twenty five year old central midfielder Predrag Opsenica has been named Player of the Season as the twenty five year old played thirty six games for the club in the league, setting up seven and scoring seven times as well while his team mate, Jairo Riedewald came second in the PotS award.


Hervin Ongenda has won the Top Goalscorer award after the French international (has won 2 caps) scored thirty two goals in thirty four appearances last season while he also assisted fifteen times too and won seven Player of the Match awards.


Billy McCabe has been named Young Player of the Year, the twenty year old produced a solid year.


Six foot seven central defender Miroslav Zoranovic has been named the Writers' Young Player of the Year as the twenty two year old put in a string of good performances and also helped himself to three goals.


In his debut season at Ibrox, Ricardo Almeida has won the Young Player of the Season winner as the twenty three year old former Porto midfielder scored twice in thirty one games and also assisted three times.


Nine players have been named in the Team of the Year award and they are - goalkeeper Jack Butland - defenders Jairo Riedewald, Miroslav Zoranovic and Luke Shaw - midfielder's Barrie McKay, Predrag Opsenica, Fraser Aird and Ryan Gauld - and striker Hervin Ongenda.

The aim must be to get a Rangers full team of the year now

And unfortunately that will never happen Dan as I only play with one striker up front, I have been tempted to change it (a while back) but don't want to f*ck up a winning formula.



The board are expecting an eighth consecutive Scottish Premiership crown and I've got a transfer budget of just under twenty three million but again, I expect that to be altered once the summer signings arrive as I may need to "edit" the wage budget.


Six pre season games have been arranged - two at home and four away. The home games will be against French duo Olympique de Marseille and Olympique Lyonnais while our away games will be against Greeke side Niki Volou, Italians Siena and Spanish duo Las Palmas and 2001 UEFA Cup runners-up Alaves.


At the end of the 2022 World Cup I decided about taking charge of a national team (I won't be leaving Rangers) and I had applied for the vacancies at England, Italy, Spain and Brazil but only two came back and wanted me and they're both South American.

Argentina have offered me a deal that will see me earn an extra £6.5k p/w while Brazil will pay me £60k p/w along with Samba classes and hot women... it's a no brainer who I'm going to take on - Lionel Messi or Gabriel Barbosa, it's actually quite tough.

Decision has been made though:


I've agreed to take on the opportunity to manage Brazil and truth be told, it was the "wages" that swayed me. #moneygrabbingbastard When am I going to get "paid" £60k p/w again along with Samba classes and hot women? I've got three friendly games before the calendar year and I'm not sure yet when our next competitive game will be.

Looking forward to seeing how the Brazil thing goes. Have they won anything yet?

Good luck with Brazil, any future stars worth showing?

The thing is... what can you do with wages?

Buy some Brazilian hookers?

Not bad idea to take Brazil job Especially with the high level youth academies in Brazil with loads of regens.

Good luck with Brazil, also another fantastic season!

They have won the Copa America in 2015 and that seems to be it Sean, which is surprising. They haven't won a Confederations Cup since 2013 and a World Cup since 2002. That needs to change.

Cheers Dan, er, truth be told, I haven't really looked.

"Spend it", Lawrorocks.

Cheers Johno, that's the main reason why I've taken on the job so I'm hoping some gems can be unearthed for the national team.

Cheers George, yeah, it's been a fantastic season at Rangers.



Five players arrived at the club in the summer and only one will be a regular. Central defender Ludek Kovarik arrived from Viktoria Plzen for £1.4m while trio Andrea Franceschi, Toufik Ouadah and Maurizio Sacchi arrived all on free transfers from Juventus, Monaco and Inter respectively while left back Elias Arias came from Castilla for a huge £5.75m and will be first choice and he hadn't played a first team game for Real Madrid.

Several first team players departed in the summer - Lewis MacLeod announced he was to leave the club when his contract had expired while Vangelis Tsartsidis headed to Freiburg and Jeffrey Bruma to Hoffenheim on free transfers after agreeing pre-contracts while Calum MacLean went to Liverpool. Paul MacDonald, Ian Mitchell and Paul Ramsay went out on loan, Andre Almeida left when his contract expired and Vangelis Papoulidis went to Sparta Prague for £4m.


Couldn't have asked for a better pre season on the field as we won all six games including both home games against French duo OM 3-1 and Lyon 3-0. We also defeated Niki Volou 4-0, Siena 2-0, Las Palmas 6-1 and Alaves 4-1 as we prepare for another league title defence and that starts away to Hibernian.

I couldn't have asked for a much better start to our league campaign as we have won our opening six league games and have been banging them in. The twenty twenty two/twenty twenty three season at the end of July with a six one win away to Hibernian - Hervin Ongenda with two, Fraser Aird with three and Ryan Gauld on target.

August started with a five goal demolition of Inverness in a game that saw Hervin Ongenda hit four and the same man then hit a hat trick in a six one win away to Livingston in a game that marked by 500th game at Rangers. The month would continue with a five nil win at home to Motherwell, a three nil win against fierce rivals Celtic and a two nil win at Aberdeen.


So it's been an absolute great start to the season as we have won our opening six games and also scored twenty seven goals in the process (two conceded) and long may that continue as we head into September but that month only has two league games away to Hearts and Ross County. St. Johnstone are currently bottom and win-less.


Hervin Ongenda has been named August's Player of the Month as the twenty seven year old has started the season in a rich vein of form and has already scored ten times in five games (Hibernian game not included as that was in July). Ongenda's team mates Barrie McKay and Miroslav Zoranovic came second and third respectively.


Summer signing Elias Arias has won the Young Player of the Month award for August as the young left back has been an inspiring signing for the club following his near £6m switch from Spain and the other full back, Billy McCabe came in second place.


I've been named Manager of the Month for August after guiding the side to five victories from as many games in a month that has seen us score twenty one times.

So life at Brazil started with two friendly games, both away from home.

First we travelled to Scotland (who were favourites, explain that?) and we had to come from a goal down to seal a 3-1 victory as Barrie McKay gave the Scots a second minute lead but goals from Roni and a penalty from Choquito turned the game around before half time and then Gabriel Barbosa added a third on sixty seven minutes.

We then faced Mexico four days later and defeated them two one as goals in either half from Neymar and Marcelo Leonardo gave us a two goal lead but we failed to keep a clean sheet as the Mexican's pulled one back, seven minutes from time through Jesus Corona.

Ongenda is awesome! what a record that month, good start with Brazil too

Impressive start to the season

Surprised to see they named Scotland favorite against you I'm sure you managing Brazil will enable you to look at Brazilian players for Rangers

Im sure all of Scotland hates you now for dominating so much and then beating them at international level too

He only cost £400k Dan when PSG stuck him on the transfer list and his return has been excellent.

Cheers Johno. Yeah I thought Scotland being favourites was strange but at least we beat them. See, I'm hoping I can find some nice Brazilian (newgen) players for Rangers but whether some of them can get a work permit would remain to be seen.

Hahaha, I couldn't care about the whole of Scotland SpinSwimScream but just the Rangers fans.



Just two league games were played this month, both away from home and we won them both pretty easily as we started the month with a four one win at Tynecastle in a game that saw Hervin Ongenda strike a hat trickwhile Predrag Opsenica and Jairo Riedewald was also on target and then Ross County were defeated five nil at Dingwall.

Our Champions League group games saw us head to Valencia and pick up a shock two one win as Hervin Ongenda (pen) and Ryan Gauld scored before the second game saw us draw at home to Manchester United, an own goal saving us. We started our League Cup win with a five one win at Alloa Athletic - Barrie McKay and Hervin Ongenda hitting doubles while Jairo Riedewald also scored at the Rec.


We are currently seven points clear at the top of the Scottish Premiership and ahead of second place Hibernian but we've a game in hand and are the only side with a one hundred percent record with eight wins from eight games and have scored thirty six goals in those eight games.

Two friendly games were played against "poor" opposition as I continued to look at getting the players familiar with the tactics.

First, I took the national team to Kazakhstan and eased to a five one victory thanks to first half goals from Neymar and two from former Chelsea man Oscar before Choquito and Leo hit further goals in the second half to seal an emphatic victory in Almaty.

Our second friendly was at home to New Caledonia and we won four nil in Brasilia (DF) as both Gabriel Barbosa and Choquito hit doubles.

Good to see you're unbeaten in the league Good draw against Man Utd.

As Johno said, a good unbeaten start pal

Good start mate!