£100M at Parkhead means Rangers need to sort out transfers | OneFootball

It is absolutely, undeniably frustrating that Rangers can’t shift Todd Cantwell for £3M, while ‘them lot’ in the east are about to sell Matt O’Riley for £30M to Brighton, where Man City are about to offer a megabucks bid for Kyogo for probably about the same amount.

The memories of 21/22 and selling Nathan Patterson, Joe Aribo and Calvin Bassey for a combined £38M (£12M, £6M, £20M) and with ‘rising to’ £56M had all addons been met seems like a distant memory, and since then our record sales remain locked in at around £4M.

We’ve made quite a few £4M sales – Fashion Sakala, Glen Kamara, Sam Lammers, albeit those three are probably it in total. £12M, with more potentially to come from Jose Cifuentes.

But, albeit it’s not happened yet, ‘that lot’ are likely to not only smash their own Scottish transfer record but then do it all over again with the Japanese.

Meaning, if it happens, they score around £50M from the Champions League and potentially close to about the same for those two.

Meaning without having done much, they just pocket £100M easily on top of their very healthy bank account as it is.

Rangers, on the other hand, can’t sell players at all, with a pile of surplus on the books now that’s costing a tonne in wages and who no one wants to bid decent chunks of cash for.

Philippe Clement is part of the problem – he’s mismanaged several players, including Cantwell and Romania’s Ianis Hagi, and his own actions have led in part to so many of these players being hard to shift.

Clement is evidently a terrible man-manager and it’s a big reason we have a huge backlog of players we don’t want to keep.

The good news? ‘Them lot’ have a pretty frugal transfer policy, they aren’t exactly piling the pressure on with reams of new additions – they probably don’t really need to.

But in the here and now Celtic’s squad is far better than Rangers’ and tellingly they make massive cash revenue that we don’t.

It’s not that we at Ibrox Noise are jealous of anything they do, never have been, never will be; but we are, however, fuming that our squad mismanagement has fallen so far behind that them lot are this far ahead without even having to do much.

We lag behind, and we can’t see that changing any time soon.