6-figure compo for Robin Propper as Rangers finally get rid | OneFootball

The Rangers and Robin Prooper transfer saga has finally come to an end after agreement was reached, as we reported earlier today. Of course, this news broke widely over the past 12 hours, so it has been a known change for Rangers to finally sort this issue out at long, long last with Robin Propper Rangers compensation.

However, we do have to wonder the exact terms that sorted this out once and for all. Prooper would not leave on the basis of the pay cut, going from around £22k at Ibrox to around £12k at best at FC Twente. The Dutch defender was having to take a massive cut, something that Sam Lammers did manage to do eventually last summer. But that also did take an awful long drawn-out saga to get achieved.

The question here was, Rangers and compensation, how much would the club have compensated Propper for in the end? The fact was he was going to lose 50% of his pay. And Rangers wanted him desperately off the pay sheet, simply because £22k a week going nowhere is absolutely no use and is a drain to resources. He had one year left, and it was around £1M a year, so we’d believe a significant 6-figure sum.

It was well known that he wouldn’t leave unless he was compensated for his loss of salary, so there’s no doubt that Rangers would have plumped up a bit of cash, a little sweet golden handshake, to resolve this once and for all. How much it was for we’ll never exactly know beyond 6 figures, but Rangers finally put their hands in their pockets and resolved this. Should they have? This was a clinical business decision.

No player should necessarily have to be compensated for losing a wage, but this was a guy we needed off the wage bill, and he knew that he could just sit on his wage. Twente wanted him, Rangers didn’t, and the only way around this was to compensate him. Robin Propper Rangers compensation.

So he’s taken a mercenary decision to sit on his morals, sit on his laurels, and wait for Rangers to give him a chunk of cash to compensate the money he was going to lose in wages. We assume that is what happened. It can be the only option as to why this dragged on.

Even Twente’s technical director confirmed, more or less, that the story was actually true about compensation. The reason he confirmed that was because he gave a different reason that didn’t add up, because it had already been confirmed that Martin, Russell Martin, Rangers manager, was not going to be using Propper at all.

And for the technical director to say that Prooper was going to be waiting and seeing if he would be featuring under this manager, who had already said no, would suggest that the real story was about compensation. That has been resolved, thankfully, and now we can all move on.

He will hopefully pass his medical, and we can put another bad signing sorry chapter behind us.