St Johnstone striker Francisco Sandaza is believed to have said no thanks to an end of season contract offer from Rangers.
The Spanish striker has been identified by Ally McCoist as the first of his summer signings with St Johnstone contacted today to confirm the offer to their player.
Sanadaza is less than happy with the approach and offer from Rangers and is hoping to return to England where there is interest from Norwich, West Brom and Championship side Cardiff.
St Johnstone have indicated that they’d be happy to accept a bid in the region of £300,000 for the 27-year-old.
Confirming recent speculation about an offer McCoist admitted earlier today: “I spoke to Steve Lomas this morning just to let him know that we have put a pre-contract bid in for the end of the season when his contract is up.
“I said Steve would be the first person to know if anything was happening so we have had a chat and he knows about that.
“That’s where we are and I think Sandaza’s agent will be speaking to him on Monday or Tuesday of next week.”
It appears that Sandaza and his agent have already rejected the offer from Rangers with the striker likely to use tomorrow’s live televised game against the Ibrox side to showcase his availability south of the border.
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dont ya just luv the sports press in this sort of semi nation again i repeat the bluenose mob couldnt buy a bag o chips in perth BUT AGAIN AND AGAIN THE IBROX PRESS MAFIA STILL SPOUT THE BIGGEST LOAD OF CRAP IN SCOTTISH FITBA HISTORY IHAVE NAE MONEY SO FUCK IT UR A LIARS AND EVERY ONE OF US LIARS NOW IT UR AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE TO SCOTLAND LIARS LIARS DISGRACE COYBIG
PS NAME EVERY ONE THE BROXI BEAR MOB HAVE BEEN ON THE BACK PGES TO SIGN SOMEONE GIVE IT 2 WEEKS AND SEE HOW MANY OF THESE STORIES BECOME REALITY I SMELL SERIOUS RRBS
RED RAG BULL SHTTTT
Love the choice of picture Joe.
Very huffy little cheeky chappie.
No! You cannot have Sandaza and thats final Alisdair!!!
I don’t watch Hollyoaks or EastEnders, so it is good to get a bit of drama now and then, and Rangers transfers are a much greater spectacle than those of Celtic.
McCoist tries to chat up other teams players through the rags, without a bid even being in place.
Then Whyte will think of a number and divide it by 12 for the first bid, perhaps even raising his bid to half the asking price or meet the terms when it is too late.
The punch line is McCoist being left with egg on his face again, but you never feel that bad for him, because he just moves on to another adventure.
I hardly hear about Celtic transfers most of the time before they have signed their man. Lennon doesn’t make sure that everyone knows who he is after …… and it is just boring!!!
Can’t wait to see what adventures McCoist will get up to this week.
“I said Steve would be the first person to know if anything was happening so we have had a chat and he knows about that.”
Mmm, was that before you told the media? In a word, no.
The way I deal with the Mankie media lies is I don’t buy there papers and don’t listen to there Craig Whyte on the radio.
Best way really hurts them more than you would believe circulation figures that’s there god.