The £10,000 Maestro: Angel Rangel's Swansea City Legacy

[swansnews]

The £10,000 Maestro: Angel Rangel's Swansea City Legacy

On June 29, 2007, Swansea City, then a League One club, announced the signing of a relatively unknown Spanish right-back from semi-professional side Terrassa. T

jackarmy.net

 

[bakajack]

There are so many other spectacular stories about him that go unwritten in that piece.

He met his wife here in Swansea and was as close to a naturalized Welshman as you could find.

There is also the story about how he and his wife spent one Christmas driving around donating sandwiches to food banks after realizing that they had made too much for themselves.

His partnership with Dyer truly brought out the best of both of them, their one twos and telepathic understanding getting in behind full backs was a work of art and one that I still rarely ever see replicated today even by the top teams.

 

[Bluenile]

There are so many other spectacular stories about him that go unwritten in that piece.

He met his wife here in Swansea and was as close to a naturalized Welshman as you could find.

There is also the story about how he and his wife spent one Christmas driving around donating sandwiches to food banks after realizing that they had made too much for themselves.

His partnership with Dyer truly brought out the best of both of them, their one twos and telepathic understanding getting in behind full backs was a work of art and one that I still rarely ever see replicated today even by the top teams.

Not quite correct, but mainly yes. They hadn't made too many for themselves, but had been eating in, I believe, a Subway in Swansea, late at night. They asked the manager what happened to all the remaining food, and on learning that it would all be binned, they realised that it could do more good helping the homeless. I get my hair cut in Atilla's in the Arcade, and Atilla says that Rangel is regularly in there for a haircut, so still a local boy, last Thursday Atilla said that he's coaching a boys team in Pontardawe, as his son plays for them. A true Jack Bastard.

 

[J_B]

He lives across the road from me. He's a lovely guy who still loves the Swans.

 

[cmajack]

The £10,000 Maestro: Angel Rangel's Swansea City Legacy

On June 29, 2007, Swansea City, then a League One club, announced the signing of a relatively unknown Spanish right-back from semi-professional side Terrassa. T

jackarmy.net

Without a doubt , one of our all time greats.

 

[bakajack]

One of the players involved in the greatest period of our history. Legend is a term thrown around far too much, but it is players like Rangel, Britton and Williams who for me are truly deserving of the phrase.

If it was up to me there would be a statue of the three outside the stadium.

Honestly speaking the cost for Leon's would be a fraction of the cost of the others

 

[Swans Jack]

He lives across the road from me. He's a lovely guy who still loves the Swans.

My only question is, and this will sway me on if he is a good man and a legend. Does he put the bins out every week? That's a make or break for me

 

[Itchysphincter]

It was a Kevin reeves signing, not really much to do with Martinez other than he had sent Reeves to look at a striker and when he came back he told Martinez to sign Rangel instead.

 

[Neath_Jack]

The saying “legend is used far too much” is used far too much itself, proper boring now. Just say he’s a legend and leave it at that.

 

[Colin-swansea]

It was a Kevin reeves signing, not really much to do with Martinez other than he had sent Reeves to look at a striker and when he came back he told Martinez to sign Rangel instead.

Talk about people having the midas touch then Kevin Reeves is a perfect example during his relatively short time scouting for the Swans during the Martinez management era let alone the low cost of airline tickets back and for to European destinations courtesy of his wife's employment with a popular airline. De Vries, Bodde, Bauza, Scotland, Gomez, Orlandi, Pintado, Serran, Bessone, while the late Sol Bamba was a target the Swans failed to sign.

 

[bakajack]

Losing Reeves to Wigan was an even bigger loss than Martinez considering his "little black book" was pretty much the entirety of our scouting system at the time alongside his incredible hit rate for good signings vs flops. When Sousa came in we literally had no scouting system or recruitment team to handle transfers