Burning a Hole in Le Guen's Pocket? Rangers the New Manager Takes Over Tomorrow Morning but, As with Martin O'neill and Dick Advocaat Before Him, the Breton has Found His Top Transfer Targets Elusive. It's the Perennial Old Firm Problem, As Stewart Fisher Reports

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IF Paul Le Guen and his assistant Yves Colleu remain true to their word and resist the temptation to attend Rangers' end of season clash with Hearts this afternoon, they are unlikely to be the only ones. The former Rennes and Lyon coach begins his new job in earnest tomorrow, after a week which will have left him with no illusions about the scale of the task in hand.

As if confirmation of the club's first finish out of Scotland's top two for 18 years - and the evaporation of Champions League revenues - wasn't enough, the manager has had to sit and watch as a number of his reported transfer targets have chosen to take their talents elsewhere.

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Burning a Hole in Le Guen's Pocket? Rangers the New Manager Takes Over Tomorrow Morning but, As with Martin O'neill and Dick Advocaat Before Him, the Breton has Found His Top Transfer Targets Elusive. It's the Perennial Old Firm Problem, As Stewart Fisher Reports

First Mickael Landreau, the Nantes goalkeeper who is number three in the French international pecking order, opted for a Bosman move to Paris Saint-Germain, then Le Guen's old club Lyon flexed their spending power by agreeing a deal for Lille midfi...

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