Named: the 9 men Rangers can’t seem to get rid of | OneFootball

The latest shambles coming out of Rangers is manager Philippe Clement’s admission that he told some players to ‘do one’ weeks ago but is unable to shift them, period.

In simple terms, the manager and/or players agreed to move on to pastures new, whether it was they who handed in transfer requests or Clement who told them they were surplus, but as has become abundantly clear Rangers are seriously struggling to ship anyone out now.

The last permanent exit was of course Connor Goldson but that’s almost three weeks ago – since then, just the loan exit of Jose Cifuentes who was a non-issue anyway.

Rangers’ summer exit has completely failed so far, and the manager is quite vocal about it:

From what we understand, obviously Ianis Hagi and Todd Cantwell are two of these, but we still believe Ben Davies, Tom Lawrence and Kieran Dowell are another three considered surplus, even if Lawrence is the only playmaker we have.

Alex Lowry, Adam Devine and Leon King are another three Rangers want to ship out but can’t. Rabbi Matondo is also expendable.

And this is the bottom line.

In the case of so many of these players, their wages are massive problems – Davies, especially, earns around £30,000pw and finding a club willing to take that salary on is not easy, ditto Matondo who earns about the same.

So Rangers are stuck, and so much of this sits with Ross Wilson who negotiated horrendous salaries for these players that were well higher than their market value could command.

From what we gather, in the end Sam Lammers did take a wage cut to go to Twente, he went from £22,000pw to £12,000, which shows that in the end he valued his career more than his bank balance. The rest at Rangers don’t. That’s their call and we’re not going to judge them – not easy to lose money willingly.

But it’s meant Rangers are lumbered with a glut of high (and not so high) earners on the payroll that we just cannot shift and it means the transfer market can’t progress at all.

Ibrox Noise got (the usual) abuse for reporting Rangers’ transfer business was done, and this is why. Clement even confirmed we can’t afford to replace Ridvan. Until we can get these guys off the payroll, we can’t sign anyone.

So unless we shift the chafe off the roster, we’re not signing anyone else.

It’s a pretty dire situation and it’s been a dreadful summer rebuild.