Filip Helander has claimed that there was ‘non-concrete’ interest in taking him to England during the transfer window.
For no obvious reason Aston Villa and Leicester are usually tagged in to stories about the Ibrox defender who was dropped for the catastrophic Champions League defeat at home to Malmo.
After losses believed to be north of £25m last season reaching the Champions League group stage could have brought the club closer to becoming self-sustainable but that opportunity was lost to the Swedes.
Ross Wilson was tasked with raising £20m from selling off last season’s stars but for the fourth window running he failed to bring in anything meaningful with the £285,000 raised from selling Greg Docherty to Hull the highest fee raised by Wilson.
Feeding into the notion that there is interest in Steven Gerrard’s squad, Helander told the Daily Record:
I know there was interest, but it was not much more than that. Nothing became concrete. But I feel good and have no stress that it didn’t happen.
I haven’t always been in the team due to the number of games we have had and the injury I had. It’s been a bit of both. I’ve still been feeling the injury and we have had a lot of matches.
During the whole transfer window no fees were paid for players leaving or arriving at Ibrox.
Fortunately for Helander’s club there is no system of Financial Fair Play in Scottish football.
