BBC Scotland are again banging the drum for an Ibrox transfer fantasy from Football Insider.
Every week two reporters from that site come up with the inside story from every EPL club as well as Scotland’s two biggest teams.
It seems that Pete O’Rourke is constantly taking phone calls from ‘insiders’ and senior recruitment experts’ giving the lowdown on transfer details across more than 30 clubs.
For back up they can call on the Brains Trust of Frank McAvennie and Alan Hutton to put their name to whatever opinion is put to them.
Only a complete fool would put any faith in a story from Football Insider, it often seems that that site is the go-to for the BBC Scotland Sports Desk whenever they need to pull out a good news story for their partners at Ibrox.
Rangers will accept offers of around £15million for Jack Butland this summer, sources have told Football Insider.
The 31-year-old goalkeeper has been a standout star for Philippe Clement’s side this season and has attracted interest from clubs south of the border.
As revealed by Football Insider, Butland has not ruled out a return to the Premier League this summer if an offer is made.
Rangers are concerned about losing Butland and are aware that they will not be able to compete with the wages that can be offered by a top-flight English side.
They will not deny Butland a move if an offer of around £15million is tabled – it would represent the second-biggest sale in the club’s history behind Calvin Bassey’s £20million move to Ajax.
Butland is widely reported to have taken a significant pay cut to move to Ibrox last summer, signing a four year contract, he recently turned 31.
Any worthwhile agent will have ensured that there was a get-out clause if a fee of around £4-5m was offered to get the ‘keeper back into the big money of the EPL.
At best interest was limited in Butland, it is hard to imagine that his stock has improved much on the back of a few clean sheets against Hibs and St Johnstone.
In other news it is understood that £5m price tags have been slapped on Cyriel Dessers, Sam Lammers, Rabbi Matondo and Ben Davies as Philippe Clement prepares for the second phase of his Revolution!
Wow ! – Positive, Positive, Positive from The Liars about Liebrox…
All to please The Gullibility Guiilbillies –
And to annoy and piss off The Hoops fans, which won’t piss me off one little bit so long as I’m not subsidising it all even one thrupenny bit…
For fuck sake, They even found a big negative about Dundee FC to placate The Scottish version of The Klu Klux Klan !
Oh dearie me – It truly is some football country is Scotland…
The laughing stock of the bloody universe so it is !
Can understand now why sevco is raging at the ‘non call-up’
for Butland to the England squad.
IF he – somehow – had been called up, then mibbees a transfer fee
nearer £10M ‘might’ have been doable.
And if he’s still got >3 years on his contract, and there is already media chat,
then sevco must be keen to sell…?
If there is a relatively low buy out clause,
then we could buy him?
Why not?
🙂
Their January spending was 4 loans with obligations to buy that’s 16m they need to find as well as the 2nd instalments for last summers duds.
They’ll find it no bother Tom…
Beaton, Muir, Dickinson, Walsh and Sonny Dallas and ‘Greig’ Aitken on the monitors will see to it this season…
And they’ll have plenty chance left for more as well !
CHANGE left for more and not Chance as it reads !
Joe, credit where it’s due and all that? Earlier today?
Panto season starting early this yr.
If a group of hoodie guys from a park came out with these dreams and figures folk would know they had been sniffing glue.
Yet the same guff from ex footballers is hot news.
Nurse, nurse need co.e quickly…