Rangers Fans Are Flabbergasted At Cyriel Dessers’ Reported Fee To Athens | OneFootball

Rangers fans are reacting in fury over admittedly unconfirmed reports that Cyriel Dessers has been sold to Athens for a measly £2 million.

The Nigerian striker, a bit of a Marmite, chalk-and-cheese type at Ibrox, has been in negotiations with the Greek side, and his imminent exit has certainly been divisive among supporters.

However, it is the emerging potential price which was previously believed to be around about £6 million or £5 million, give or take, which has been currently reported at a third of that at £2 million. The problem that Rangers have is Dessers’ age. He is 30, and Harry Kane he is not. Rangers can’t command what Spurs did for Kane when he moved to Germany, around about £120 million back in those days. This is Cyriel Dessers, who is an honourable and very decent striker who works extremely hard, to say the least, and his goal haul is impressive, but he is now approaching 31, and getting £6 million for a 31-year-old is not easy to do unless they are very, very special.

That said, we would not have expected the fee to be less than 50% of what we paid. As we say, these reports are as yet not 100% verified, and of course, naturally, Rangers never release fees ever. It is always undisclosed. But that said, we can well believe that this new regime are nowhere near the revolution over the last regime that many fans had hoped.

We can well, indeed, predict that things won’t really change much, and that we will still operate at a loss. When was the last time that Rangers actually sold a player for a genuine profit? Probably Glen Kamara. £4 million he was sold to Leeds, having us spent around £50,000 in the first place for him. Fashion Sakala also went for around about £4 million, and he was originally a free transfer, so there are some profits in the past, but generally speaking, Rangers tend to lose a lot more than they gain in transfers, and Desserts could potentially be yet another dire example of this.