22 Jul 2024 09:21:15
James Tavernier will leave, fee will be closer to £2m, wages saved circa £2m a year.
Connor Goldson will leave for a minimal fee. Club are again looking at the saved wages of circa £2m.
Likewise Lammers, Dessers, Hagi, Lawrence and Davies in addition to wages saved thus far from Lundstram, Barisic, Jack and Roofe.
Money will be made available for targets however the model will be fees only to be spent on under 26 players.
Joan Jordan is very much a target however player not keen to move outwith Spain.
Rramandi is a live target, his injury yesterday is not long term.
Benie Traore was looked at however has chosen Basel.
Miovski is admired at the club however fee wanted by Aberdeen is too high, £6m.
The priority for the club at present is to reduce the wage bill by at least 30%. The club needs to do this in order to comply with FFP regs relating to wages v turnover. Our turnover for the two previous seasons was boosted by UCL grips and Europa run. This years accounts will paint a bleaker picture unfortunately.
Bennett is forensically analysing the accounts at present to see where savings can be made. This isn’t an overnight job and the departure of Bisgrove has thrown a lot of the plans up in the air. Bennett isn’t working full time as of yet, he was due to take up a full time role in September. AGM in November/ December will set out the new 5 year plan for self sustainability, new transfer model and plans for the long term future.
22 Jul 2024 09:39:39
I'd sell players below market value just to get them off the books. These huge salaries are badly hampering our window.
22 Jul 2024 09:42:41
Hear anything on Conway?
22 Jul 2024 10:01:14
good info mate, do you think aris can afford goldsons wages though? hopefully they can and gets him off our books and gives us money to re invest.
22 Jul 2024 10:07:23
Now that rfc sounds like your in the know as it definitely ties in with the lack of finance I've been hearing about from within, I'm sure we all appreciate your candor, especially as I knew Mr Bennett doesn't work full time at ibrox, hence the reason bisgrove was marking his own homework, so let's hope as you say the board will deliver a proper plan in future, thanks for the info brother, namaste.
22 Jul 2024 10:09:14
Conway is smart, quick and brave unlike Dessers for example 1 year left on his deal and Bristol in the huff with him, also at a good age for the manager and his ideas for future . Would be a good addition for sure.
22 Jul 2024 10:12:45
When you read that, that's probably about 9m in wages, and with the exception of tav, goldson and dessers, there's little to no contribution in the past year from these players. Highlights the poor recruitment and financial mismanagement that has been going on within the club.
22 Jul 2024 10:27:34
We're currently sitting at 75% for ffp where we need to be 70 at the most so we don't need to slash 30% to comply with .
22 Jul 2024 10:32:05
If they don't get a grip they will be looking for a new manager soon. And as I type this a video pops up with Lampard in it which gave me a fright.
22 Jul 2024 10:41:47
Conway valued at £5m by Bristol.
I don’t understand why the club are happy to pay £7m for rhamani but not £6m for miovski. If they rate him then pay the going rate.
I like miovski and would be Happy to buy him and shankland, miovski would be my starter with shanks and Danilo as back up. Along with Lovelace.
22 Jul 2024 10:58:51
The failure of the past 3 seasons on and off the park has firmly caught up with us.
22 Jul 2024 11:22:28
You have got nothing right so far! Complete guesswork. No one has any clue what’s going on with in the club.
22 Jul 2024 11:43:56
Here’s an off the cuff striker suggestion, and a bit of fun.
would five us a mix of youth and experience
Sell Dessers for what we can get, sign McBurnie (on a free and an avowed supporter) . Swap Davies for Conway ( BC may want £5m but having ostracized the player to reserves may be worth it) . May not break the bank in terms of fees or salary, as I suspect McBurnie will accept less eathwr than another year in. championship where i know he is not on a kings ransom at Sheff Utd.
22 Jul 2024 11:52:17
Based on what I’ve picked up and read and your previous posts I’m taking what you’ve posted with a rather large pinch of salt mate 8673.
22 Jul 2024 11:54:45
I agree Stevie. Miovski is proven in our league Rrahamani isn’t. Miovski worth 6million all day ?.
22 Jul 2024 11:55:13
Totally agree StevieG2 Get Miovski and Shankland in as these two know our league and would score goals.
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22 Jul 2024 12:21:14
Sell Dessers and Lammers. Bring in Mcburnie and Conway. Would be happy with that.
Sure that would be a saving overall on the budget.
22 Jul 2024 12:26:09
Bristol are not going to get anywhere near £5m for Conway in his current situation . If the player fancies Rangers then that's even worse for them . I see McBurnie mentioned again here, I would risk it he can genuinely bully defenders unlike Mr Dessers who is a kidder.
22 Jul 2024 12:27:24
Goldson won't leave for minimal fee I'd be disappointed if we don't get 2m for him. Tav I'd be looking for at least 3.5m.
22 Jul 2024 12:42:32
We should be saving money on the wages of people who don`t play like Lawrence, Davies, Dowell and Matondo not chasing our mainstays out the door, that's a recipe for disaster. We got a look at Rangers without Tav and Goldson on Saturday and its not pretty. If what you are saying is correct we are downsizing and showing a lack of ambition, in which case there will no more money from good European runs, the manager will leave and we will be back to fighting Hearts and the rest for second and third . If that's how John Bennett sees our future its time he found a buyer and stepped aside.
22 Jul 2024 12:44:59
What do we think about Matondo he does get off that bench at incredible speed but it turned out not quick enough in play for Dessers apparently.
I think he would be great for Wrexham or maybe Swansea as long as we don't want money for him .
22 Jul 2024 12:46:02
Honestly it’s like a £1million saving if at all we are going to need to get a replacement let’s say the £2million fee is away already getting a replacement . Then we will be getting a replacement that let's face it is not as good he will want 10k a week so let’s say half a million a season in wages. I think tav is on £1.5million a season so £1million saving a year. so that will be tav borna and lunny away and let’s face it borna at this time would start over Jefte and lunny over raskin so not only is the squad weaker the starting 11 is and folk want tav gone as well.
22 Jul 2024 13:03:02
Rfc Barisic wouldn't start over Yilmaz though, Jefte is signed for the future and could maybe used further up the left side.
22 Jul 2024 13:03:25
Under the UEFA rules we needed to operate at below 80% of our turnover last year - and based on the published accounts we were at 76%
This season the UEFA target is reduced to 70%, so we do need to cut but 30% seems pretty drastic.
22 Jul 2024 13:24:59
My star that sounds like a possible though watched Jefte twice now and at the very least needs work . If the boss sees something in him I accept it.
22 Jul 2024 13:32:02
Did goldson not just sign a new deal last season? Will be couple mill.
22 Jul 2024 14:02:48
I think jefte will be better when we are fully in front foot v teams, was night and day difference when ridvan came on though.
22 Jul 2024 14:11:39
RFC, you state players only brought in for money if u26 and follow that with Joan Jordan is a target. He’s 31 soon.
22 Jul 2024 14:16:18
Cheers lads
Defo think those 2 last season and we win the league
That’s our bread and butter so let’s win the league first and worry about re sales and Europe next.
Actually think we could sell miovski for a reasonable profit in 2-3 years. He’s a very good player.
Shanks would be brought in to stay and run down his contract. He’s bought to score goals not to make money.
We ant £4.5m for dessers, how can we say miovski, who’s a far superior player, isn’t worth £6m?
We’ve lost out on a lot of talent from our own league by refusing to pay relatively small fees.
Let’s not make same mistake with miovski or miller:
We may even get miovski for say £4.5m rising, or sell on of 15% etc
Always a way to do a deal.
And by keeping money in the league we enhance the competition therefore it can only benefit us aswell.
Look at Bayern, real Barcelona atletico . Buy from own league keep the money in that league. It builds relationships which ultimately u do need to have to make deals happen.
Romero move on from the past and put our own interests first and not grudges.
22 Jul 2024 14:17:32
Paul Goldson signe a four year deal two seasons ago.
22 jul 2024 14:26:13
i thought that was strange too ibrox.
22 Jul 2024 15:00:47
Belhaven, Matondo is another that needs to go. We're wasting 28 k a week on him.
22 Jul 2024 15:04:43
Yes John and we were idiots to give him a wage rise when his idea of. A bigger move on a free didn't work out
Only at rangers can you go in and ask for more than you expect and get it lol.
22 Jul 2024 15:15:04
100% RFC, the criminal part was his two million signing on fee spread over the four year deal.
22 Jul 2024 15:26:49
Mark I didn't know he was on that much, we should sue Schalke for selling shoddy goods though they lost approx £11m on speedy Gonzales that cannot get past a full back then falls on his erse.
22 Jul 2024 14:44:46
Davie1980, club need to bring down wage bill by 30% due to a fall in turnover, FFP is over 3 years. Our Europa run will drop off as well. 70% wage to turnover but it needs to come down to take into account fall in turnover.
Rfc555 that’s because nothing is breaking in the press. Doesn’t mean the info is wrong.