Rangers linked with Danish defender and Italian striker

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Rangers are poised to offer Danish defender Ole Budtz a career lifeline with a week-long trial. The 27-year-old is a free agent after leaving Cerle Brugge and reports in the player's homeland suggest Paul Le Guen is considering signing the 6ft 5in centre back.
Budtz, who flies into Glasgow today and will be assessed at Murray Park, has a largely unheralded career, having played in Bundesliga 2 with Kickers Offenbach.
He began his career as a beanpole striker but was converted to centre-half and is now expected to join Le Guen's array of summer signings, Jeremy Clement, Libor Sionko, Lionel Leitizi and Karl Svensson in South Africa for pre-season.
Le Guen has extended the trial period of Makhtar N'Diaye, his former Rennes midfielder, and Budtz, if he impresses, could offset the likely departures of Bob Malcom and Jose Karl Pierre Fanfan.
Talks are in an advanced stage with Arsenal over a one-year loan deal for 18-year-old striker Niklas Bendtner and he is expected to join the team in South Africa this week.
Reports in France suggest that Rangers have been offered Italian striker Marco Di Vaio.
The Valencia player has figured in £25m worth of transfers in the past seven years, but the Spanish club are willing to let him go for £4m after Monaco they rejected the chance to make his loan deal permanent. Paris Saint Germain are also interested.
Di Vaio, who turns 30 next week, has been told he can leave or face a season in the reserves.
Coach Quique Sanchez Flores wants to make changes to his squad and has told Di Vaio, Patrick Kluivert, Bernardo Corradi and Stefano Fiore they can all move on. The four were ditched from the first-team squad last week for their training camp in Holland to give them time to find new clubs.
Italian side Parma paid £10m in 1999 to land Di Vaio, while Juventus paid £15m for him three years later as part of a swap deal. He has won 14 caps for Italy.
Le Guen has also been linked with Austria Vienna's pacy Slovakian striker Filip Sebo but that deal appears doomed to failure.
Sebo, who scored 22 goals last season for the Austrian champions, wants to see out the final year of his contract before moving abroad.
Frenk Shinkels, the club's coach, said: "Sebo told me on Tuesday he wants to stay here for another year."

[Blunt83]

Another trialist never heard of the guy Budtz and Cercle Brugge who he played for are utter P!sh.
If Bendtner will only be a loan move it was expected and i knew wenger wouldnt let him leave on a permanent basis he's not stupid when it comes to young prospects.
As for Di Vaio who turns 30 on 15th july i would rather keep the £4million.

[Ceres]

Another trialist never heard of the guy Budtz and Cercle Brugge who he played for are utter P!sh.
If Bendtner will only be a loan move it was expected and i knew wenger wouldnt let him leave on a permanent basis he's not stupid when it comes to young prospects.

Well, i can tell you that during the U21 Euro finals this year, Bendtner was one of the players getting plenty of praise by the opponents, especially the Italian journalist were praising Bendtner to the sky after the Denmark vs Italy match, saying that despite being only 18-yo he is already better than Zlatan Ibrahimovic (ofcause this was before Zlatan's poor show at the WC). I would say he's more of a ½ Henke, ½ Zlatan, because his fighting spirit and hard work remind of of Henrik Larsson while his technique (and behaviour outside the pitch, when speaking to newspapers) remind of Zlatan...

Budtz is rather unknown in Denmark because he played at a very low level when he was younger before moving abroad and then ther are simply too many Danish players playing abroad for the Danish media to take notice of all of them. But I do know that he was topscorer in his first season for Cercle Brügge in 2002 (scoring 13 league goals). At German Kickers Offenbach he was used both in defense as well as a forward. I also get the impression that he was highly popular among the Offenbach supporters. He seem to be a very tall and strong player, said to be excellent at heading and seem fairly good at passing the ball on and not just 'kicking it to hell', but he is also said to be fairly static, not moving to much around during a match...

http://www.tgo-server.de/fotos/docstephan/budtz/Thum1.html
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[Gunners/Gers]

Bendtner would be the only one I would take, I think.

[James de Bear]

A scout or a contact must have seen something i nthis Danish guy for Rangers to be offering a trial to German Second division player. I only see him as back up if he does win a contract as PLG is looking for two men in every position.

With Marco Di Vaio I think 4 million is too much for a 30 year old they want rid of. I'd be pretty pleased if we signed him even though I've not seen him play for a good few seasons but by his name alone it would be good. We've only been offered him yet and PLG might not fancy him.

[Ceres]

Well, Bendtner is staying in England and Budtz was asked to stay on trial for 12 more days, but he then chose to return to Denmark to make use of an offer of signing a 3-year deal with my team :D (AGF Aarhus)..
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[Weebully]

Ah well, so we didn't sign another nobody.