Daily Record has crossed wires over the Calvin Bassey windfall

Soccer Football - Europa League - Final - Eintracht Frankfurt v Rangers - Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan, Seville, Spain - May 18, 2022 Rangers' Calvin Bassey with teammates look dejected after the match REUTERS/John Sibley

The Daily Record really doesn’t know how to portray Calvin Bassey’s proposed move to Brighton.

On Twitter all is happy and glorious with windfalls all round but on the sports pages they just can’t manage to spin it into another boost for Micky Beale’s war-chest.

Last summer when Ajax were duped into signing the former Leicester City starlet a fee of £25m was widely accepted along with substantial add-ons from the inevitable move to a top six club in the EPL.

A year later the Record is putting the fee at £18.7m with Brighton expected to pay roughly the same fee for the the Nigerian bombscare.

Two weeks ago the Record was all in with details of the Malik Tillman windfalls but the sports team have decided to play it straight with the Bassey deal.

It seems that the Record’s Twitter account is defaulted to produce positive news for their army of Ibrox leaning followers.

There is no doubt that a year ago a very healthy profit was turned in on Bassey, unfortunately that money was spent on Ridvan Yilmaz, Ben Davies, Rabbi Matondo and Antonio Colak who are all on long term contracts.

Meanwhile Ajax have been through two managers and a CEO since someone took the ill-fated decision to believe the Scottish hype on Bassey.

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