SAD News:Rangers star ‘unlikely’ to get new deal as £3.5m man to leave for nothing

SAD News:Rangers star ‘unlikely’ to get new deal as £3.5m man to leave for nothing

Philippe Clement talked about not letting Rangers players run down their contracts and leave the club for free.

 

In January, the manager looked ahead to the summer when the club had five players coming to the end of their deals.

 

 

 

 

That wasn’t a good business model, he said.

 

As it turned out Ryan Jack, Kemar Roofe, Borna Barisic, John Lundstram and Jon McLaughlin all moved on with Gers not getting a penny in return.

 

The year before it was the same with Ryan Kent, Alfredo Morelos, Scott Arfield and Filip Helander.

 

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It was a situation Clement insisted would never happen again and this time the only players in the squad coming out of contract in the summer of 2025 will be Leon Balogun and Tom Lawrence.

didn’t have big outgoing transfers and because of that, not getting money in to do other things.

 

“That is one of the targets, strange as it is for a manager to talk about that but I want to help in that way so the club can grow in every sense.

 

“It is getting a good balance in the squad, good experienced players and also young prospects that you can let grow to a higher level than Glasgow Rangers. That is the objective. And you need to have players who are in contract.

 

“So there is a lot of work to be done in that way, everybody in the club is working hard in that way to have clear vision of how to bring money into the club by developing players but getting results also, winning trophies.

 

“You don’t have the situation where you have players of value going free at the end of contract – it can never happen.”

 

However, what he was likely referring to was the volume of players coming to the end of deals at the same time, meaning the club were letting a chunk of their squad go and getting nothing in return.

 

But there are always going to be exceptional circumstances for individuals and you can see why a player in their 30s and with that injury history would be one such exception.

 

No transfer fee was paid for the player who came on a free transfer, although his contract was worth around £3.5m when he signed a three-year deal with Rangers back in the summer of 2022 (Salary Sport).