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Wilson explains the cash crisis inside Ibrox

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Danny Wilson has opened up on the grim finances that forced him out of Ibrox.

The defender joined Colorado Rapids last month but has told The Sun that he would have preferred to stay on at Sevco on the same terms.

While a crisis loan was taken out with Close Brothers to pay for glamour loan deals for Russell Martin and Jamie Murphy there wasn’t even an offer on the table to hold on to Wilson.

Graeme Murty brought former Liverpool defender back into the side when he took over from Pedro Caixinha but was unable to give him a new contract.

Murts put on his diplomatic hat when he claimed that moving to the States was a great opportunity for the player and his family but the truth was that there was no alternative offer from Ibrox.

I made it clear I wanted to stay with Rangers,” Wilson explained. “Absolutely, I wanted to stay but I was left with no choice but to consider other options.

Plenty of people have had their say about my decision to leave Rangers, especially on social media.

So much of it is inaccurate rubbish. I’m delighted to have the opportunity to set the record straight.

I asked two managers and a director of football about a new contract. The truth of it is that for four or five months I asked Rangers what the situation was, beginning with Pedro Caixinha before he left.

I was told just to concentrate on my performances — and I thought my performance level over that period of time was good.

Then as it got into January, after we returned from Florida, I went in to speak to them again.I was told the contract would be there in the next day or so. That was it. I left the room thinking that would be me, I would be staying at Rangers.

That was on the Tuesday, but by the Wednesday evening I was told there would be no contract for me to sign.

It was Mark Allen, the director of football, who told me. He’d encouraged me to think there would be a contract for me to stay, but there weren’t even terms discussed.

It was never about money. I actually told Rangers during our brief discussions that I would have been happy to stay on the money I was on.”

Wilson is believed to be on one fifth of the wages of Bruno Alves, Kenny Miller and David Bates are both out of contract at the end of the season with no sign of new deals being offered.

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