Rangers and Twente Wait On Robin Propper’s £12,000 Answer | OneFootball

It’s been a lively few days with Rangers transfers, or specifically Rangers transfer speculation, or even more specifically Rangers exit transfer speculation.

Obviously we have the Robin Propper story, with the Dutchman now haggling regarding his wage and stalling over a potential move to Holland’s FC Twente, his former club, given that they are offering around 50% of his current wage.

That story is quite a big deal, because it’s been a recurring theme in recent transfer windows, and especially given it affected the last window with former striker Sam Lammers.

As Rangers fans will remember, getting him off the wage list proved to be a borderline impossible task, until finally FC Twente managed to make him an offer that he accepted.

He was on a wage of around £22,000 per week at Ibrox, and the recurring theme is the problem in Holland, whereby the best paid players generally don’t get even half of £30,000, never mind 20.

The top wages at most clubs in Holland outside of Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord, and even mostly including them too, is around £10,000 to £12,000, that is what players make there.

In Scotland, well with Rangers and the rivals across the city, the highest wage can be anything up to £40,000 as we know. Dutch clubs have more money than Rangers, but do not unwisely spend that money.

So as far as Propper goes, he is in the same problem, a propper problem, as Lammers was. He has to take a wage cut to leave Rangers to return to the Eredivisie.

His wage at Rangers is the same as most big money signings, £22,000 give or take, so he’d have to go round to £12,000 give or take, essentially a 50% reduction. The reaction to this has been mixed. Rangers fans generally cannot stand Robin Propper, but even within those emotions there is a lot of understanding.

In the sense that who on earth is willing to drop 50% of their wages in this day and age?

Borderline no one. Well, maybe one or two, Lammers being a prime example. The Dutch striker did go from £20,000 and his wage had to cut by half. He had to choose between career or money, and he chose career. Of course, it’s very easy to say that, given the fact that £12,000 a week is still a hell of a lot of money in real terms.

But when you’re coming from double that, it becomes difficult to accept that kind of drop. Lammers did it, and for Propper to leave, he will have to as well. It is widely known that Rangers have accepted Twente’s transfer offer.

It is down to the player to decide between money and home. He will not play much at Rangers, at least we hope he won’t, should he decide to stay.

To be fair, the manager has also said that opportunities will be limited for Propper if he does not accept this offer. End of the day, it’s a dire situation, and it sums up the mismanagement of this club.

It probably is still going on. We shudder to imagine some of the wages that players are getting these days.

We doubt that suddenly Rangers are now paying much more frugal numbers, because the new owners would have been desperate to try to get players in to raise the value of the club, and getting those players in requires wages.

In order to beat off competition, you have to pay big bucks, just like Rangers did with Joe Aribo to fend off Aston Villa back in 2019. So at the end of the day, now we have to wait to see what Propper decides.

We would understand him rejecting it, but we hope of course that he accepts it.