David Bates is being hung out to dry this morning after looking for a wage of £7,500 per week. Which would make his monthly pay to the same level as the weekly wages of Bruno Alves, Eduardo Herrera and Carlos Pena.
According to the Daily Record those terms were rejected by the Sevco board who will look for a manager capable of filling places in central defence with free agents willing to accept a wage of less than £7,500.
A month ago Bates was the great ginger hope, a player to compliment Young McCrorie for club and country for at least a decade.
Yesterday SV Hamburg announced that the 21-year-old had signed a four year contract leaving the Ibrox side back at square one as they look for a central defence.
Not even the gullible believe that Alves, Russell Martin or Fabio Cardosa will be part of Dave King’s title winning side next season.
Bates now joins the small band of Lewis MacLeod, Barrie McKay and Lewis Morgan to have left Ibrox in recent years, moving onto better things while Andy Halliday, Jason Holt, Micky O’Halloran and Jordan Rossiter sit on contracts paying them until 2020.
Alves is under contract until 2019, Herrera and Pena until 2020.