Overnight it seems that Scott Wright’s price tag has crashed from £10m down to just £2m as interest from Al Ettifaq comes under scrutiny.
Even at £2m it would be a fantastic profit for Micky Beale who hasn’t been able to shift any of the deadwood from his bloated squad.
It started as a wind-up from a little known Twitter account, Fraser Fletcher of Football Inside gave it legs before the Daily Record slapped EXCLUSIVE! over the most unlikely of transfer tales. So unlikely that even Record readers were doubting it.
New Al Ettifaq boss Steven Gerrard has still to make any moves into the transfer market, given a massive budget and list of potential targets it is hard to see him being rejected by enough players to reach as far down the list as W for Wright.
Thrown in as a makeweight in the deal that took Ross McCrorie to Aberdeen, Wright has been the ultimate squad filler at Ibrox, only seeing game time when Gerrard, Giovanni van Bronckhorst or Beale had ran out of options.
Preston were rumoured to be interested at the end of last season but couldn’t match Wright’s Ibrox wages.
Like many of the misfits in Beale’s squad it is likely that only a loan deal will take Wright away from Ibrox as he runs down the last two years of his contract.
Football Insider now claim that Al Ettifaq have made a concrete move to sign Scott Wright.
Al Ettifaq have this week confirmed the appointment of Steven Gerrard as their new manager. Gerrard prepared a £2m offer for Wright. pic.twitter.com/OUhga6oHbO
— Rangers F.C. News (@thegersnewshub) July 5, 2023
£2m to Saudis is the equivalent to a doner kebab .. price seems accurate for Wright
— Robert Sloan (@SloanRanger42) July 5, 2023
2m ???
— Danny B (@frankieboy1887) July 6, 2023
Aye that’s about right, then again the Saudi clubs usually overpay so maybe we can squeeze an extra million or 2
— ??I’m Bealing It?? (@Im_Bealing_It) July 6, 2023
Massive money for the size of club???
— Nightowl? (@Nightowl_10) July 5, 2023
cracking bit of business
— @Alfie_west???? (@Alfred_East__55) July 5, 2023
Never happening in a million years. ?
— Stevie (@StevieC86) July 5, 2023
Your suppose to write parody in your bio
— Rangers Toon (@dbngb79) July 6, 2023
Mr Bean couldn’t even shift the DROSS in his squad even if it was B.O.G.O.F.
Wee Coco the klown at ibrox noise has it in good faith from a well placed source that Gerrard has made contact with the Sumo wrestler about signing him up for his new club with sevco entitled to 50% of the Sumo wrestler’s wages.
It’s “a concrete offer”, I keep reading.
Does that mean Al-Ettifaq have offered a bag of cement for him? Might be a good deal, some of their players could try to learn to trap it in training….
‘A concrete offer’ – Well they are indeed in a hard place, we find that out thankfully from blogs like this… They of course won’t think that way being fed comforting lie after comforting lie by The Scottish Media as well documented on here and other Celtic supporters blogs which thankfully lets us ‘not one thin dime’ towards the Scottish mainstream media brigade know just what anti Celtic and anti Celtic supporters evil is going on out there in Not so Bonnie Scotland !
£2 million quid ! No that’s the old Italian Lira surely , at the height of the country’s Uber inflation …. In today’s money -£ 698. 47 p !
Is it the EBT years all over again ?? Is Stevie getting a backhander to sort this out ??
Sourness taught him well !!
It’s like watching the UK housing bubble collapse.
Is that all you’ve got?
What’re you doing with that baby?