Juan Ortiz is expected to rejoin Spanish Second Division side Almeria today after just six months at Rangers.
The 29-year-old was Ally McCoist’s first signing in a £500,000 deal but failed to live up to his ‘El Tigre’ nickname starting just seven matches.
Ortiz scored his only goal for Rangers away to Maribor in the Europa League but it wasn’t enough to prevent the club losing out to the Slovenian side.
It is expected to be a busy period at Ibrox over the next 48 hours with a number of fringe players linked with moves away from Rangers.
Matt Mackay and Kirk Broadfoot are expected to move out as speculation intensifies over Nikica Jelavic.
Everton are the latest club to be linked to the striker but are unlikely to match West Ham’s reported bid of £7m that was rejected last week before the Londoners dropped their interest.
McCoist has gone on record expressing his worries that a last gasp bid for Jelavic could be accepted by the club leaving him little time to bring in a replacement.
With a number of trialists coming in to Murray Park over the last fortnight McCoist has no shortage of options to move for if a bid for Jelavic is accepted in the closing hours of the transfer window.
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Will be an interesting few days at the dark side.
If jellylegs goes they will panic buy in the last hour to keep some fans off their back, that is if they get any of the cash from the sale .
Last one out turn off the lights
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How convenient that transfers out happen so late leaving poor swally unable to get anyone in!!
They are skint and about to go under, thats why there will be no new signings.
Players ‘coming in’ have caught wind of this and got on their bike as soon as they realised.
Rearrangers as we know them are finished!
West Ham are out of the Jellyfish hunt,that leave’s Everton unless there is a late bid from some one else. So does Whyte hold out for the 8/9mill he’s been on about or at the last minute take whatever the Toffee’s offer him so he can pay the Queen.
Let’s see if he has the bottle to decline the offer if it’s less than he hopes for.
Somehow i doubt it
Why are we even contemplating Skint FC making and signings?
1) What player, in their right mind, would even consider signing for a club on the brink of obliteration?
2) THEY. HAVE. NO. MONEY!
All these transfer rumours and trialists are just a smokescreen to appease the knunckle-dragging hoards over at Castle Greyskull!
The owners over there have no interest in accruing new assets. Anyone with half a functioning brain can see that they are in the middle of a fire sale. Everything must go.
I don’t feel sorry for McCoist, after his behaviour during the Rangers Shame Game I can’t have sympathy for him. But I do feel he has been left in the lurch by Walter Myth.
Myth is too well connected at Rangers and amongst the Establishment to have not known what was coming Rangers way. Yet he abandoned the club and support he supposedly loves during the darkest time in the clubs history.
Not only that, but he did it by leaving McCoist, who had served under him for 7 years, on a sinking ship. Walter Myth abandoned ship and left McCoist to go down with the ship in his place.
‘el tigre’ the tiger on his way , ‘jelly fish’ on his way and ‘the pitbull’
away back home. what does that leave?
the write up has been that west ham agree’d a fee of about 3.5 million upfront and then add ons but Jela wanted 40k and then 60k if they were promoted West Ham told him to jog on and the deal was off, it would seem that the spin machine at Ibrox would like everyone to believe the deal was cancelled due to the fee, but in reality it wasnt.