WALTER A BUSY MAN AT EURO 2008
June 11, 2008 - Daily Hun Newsdesk
While the atmosphere in Manchester was tinged with disappointment, the setting sun that evening also brought closure to Rangers’ spell as European also-rans.
A European trophy final says much about a team, but most simply it says :‘Footballing Giants’, and it is against this backdrop that Walter Smith struts into Europe’s premier tournament brandishing Sir David Murray’s chequebook, and with a burning desire to take Rangers back to where they belong, Europe’s Roll of Honour.
With Rangers re-established as one of Europe’s top teams, Walter has the luxury of time that his rival, studio-bound and locked into a time-consuming BBC contract, does not.
Were it not for circumstance, and a sordid affair over the SFA’s refusal to accommodate Rangers’ success, choosing instead to penalise them for it, Rangers would rightly be summering as Champions of Scotland.
With a championship winning side at home, Walter knows only too well that he can afford to hold off and wait for the very best in Europe to become available.
With rumours abounding in Edmiston Drive that Walter and his backroom staff are running their eye over Fabio Grosso and the highly rated French striker, Thierry Henry, the Rangers support have much to be excited about this summer, despite the failure of England to qualify.
While Europe’s top teams squabble with agents and stubborn counterparts, the cucumber-cool business sense of Sir David Murray, one of the most impressive figures in European industry, is well placed to stamp his mark on the transfer market this summer.
If justice is done, his footprints will be all over this competition, and the finest players it has to offer.
Gordon Strachan, watching on detached from a stuffy studio, will be worried.
– by Campbell Stewart
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