Here, we list all of Walter Smith’s Rangers signings made during his highly successful two spells as manager of the club.
Quite simply, Walter Smith was the godfather of Rangers’ modern history. He was easily one of the most dominant managers top-flight Scottish football has ever seen.
He first joined Rangers on April 16, 1986 as Graeme Souness recruited him from Dundee United to be his new assistant manager at Ibrox.
Souness left for Liverpool in 1991 and Walter subsequently stepped up to the main managerial position, embarking on an incredibly triumphant eight years in Govan.
Walter led Rangers to seven of their 9IAR league titles during the 1990s, as well as lifting the Scottish Cup and League Cup three times each.
His first spell came to an end in 1998 when Celtic stopped Rangers from winning 10IAR. He had already announced his departure before the title was wrapped up by the Light Blues’ city rivals.
Walter returned for a second spell in 2007 to rescue Rangers after Frenchman Paul Le Guen’s disastrous stint as boss.
The former Scotland boss went on to win three league titles in succession, while also securing another two Scottish Cup medals and three League Cup crowns.
All in all, Walter is the second-most successful Rangers manager of all time with a haul of 21 major trophies. Only Bill Struth won more honours as boss with 30.
Why is he one of the best managers Rangers have ever had? A massive part of it is down to his recruitment and using the cash he had to spend very well.
Walter made a whopping 114 signings as Rangers manager between 1991-1998 and 2007-2011. So below, Rangers News takes a look at ever single one of them.
Walter Smith’s Rangers signings
1991/92
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- Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko – £2m
- Stuart McCall – £1.2m
- Dale Gordon – £1.2m
- Andy Goram – £1m
- David Robertson – £970k
- Paul Rideout – £500k
- David McKellar – £20k
Total = £6.89m
1992/93
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- Trevor Steven – £2.4m
- Dave McPherson – £1.1m
- Ally Maxwell – £300k
Total = £3.8m
1993/94
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- Duncan Ferguson – £4m
- Gordon Durie – £1.2m
- Craig Moore – free
- Fraser Wishart – free
Total = £5.2m
1994/95
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- Basile Boli – £2.7m
- Brian Laudrup – £2.3m
- Alan McLaren – £1.25m & Dave McPherson
- Alec Cleland & Gary Bollan – £750k
- Billy Thomson – £25k
Total = £7.025m
1995/96
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- Paul Gascoigne – £4.3m
- Oleg Salenko – £2.5m
- Gordan Petric – £1.5m
- Stephen Wright – £1.5m
- Erik Bo Andersen – £1.2m
- Derek McInnes – £300k
- Theo Snelders – £200k
- Peter van Vossen – swap deal
Total = £11.5m
1996/97
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- Jörg Albertz – £4m
- Sebastian Rozental – £3.5m
- Joachim Björklund – £2m
- Mark Hateley – £300k
- Andy Dibble – free
Total = £9.8m
1997/98
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- Lorenzo Amoruso – £4m
- Marco Negri – £3.5m
- Sergio Porrini – £3m
- Stale Stensaas – £1.65m
- Antti Niemi – £700k
- Jonatan Johansson – £500k
- Gennaro Gattuso – free
- Jonas Thern – free
- Tony Vidmar – free
- Richard Gough – free
Total = £13.35m
2006/07
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- Kevin Thomson – £2m
- David Weir – free
- Ugo Ehiogu – free
- Adda Djeziri – loan
Total = £2m
2007/08
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- Carlos Cuellar – £2.37m
- Lee McCulloch – £2.25m
- Steven Whittaker – £2m
- Steven Naismith – £1.9m
- Daniel Cousin – £1.1m
- DaMarcus Beasley – £700k
- Thomas Kind Bendiksen – £90k
- Isa Bagci – undisclosed
- Georgios Efrem – free
- Graeme Smith – free
- Kirk Broadfoot – free
- Jean-Claude Darcheville – free
- Alan Gow – free
- Roy Carroll – free
- Arturs Vaiculis – free
- Neil Alexander – free
- Christian Dailly – free
- Andy Webster – loan extension
- Marco Michetschlager – loan
- Amdy Faye – loan
- Steven Davis – loan
Total = £10.41m
2008/09
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- Kyle Lafferty – £3.25m
- Pedro Mendes – £3m
- Steven Davis – £3m
- Maurice Edu – £2.6m
- Madjid Bougherra – £2.5m
- Kenny Miller – £2m
- Andrius Velicka – £1m
- Andy Webster – £450k
- Aaron Niguez – loan
Total = £17.8m
2009/10
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- Jerome Rothen – loan
Total = £0
2010/11
Transfers IN:
- Nikica Jelavic – £4m
- James Beattie – £1.25m
- Vladimir Weiss – £700k (loan)
- David Healy – free
- Salim Kerkar – free
- Andrew Mitchell – free
- El Hadji Diouf – loan
- Kyle Bartley – loan
- Richard Foster – loan
Total = £5.95m
