The Daily Record has launched a final desperate bid to sell James Tavernier.
Since the spring time the Record has been anxious to force the Hall of Famer off the wage bill, even jumping the gun by handing the captaincy to Jack Butland in a story that was quickly watered down.
Using no imagination whatsoever Steven Gerrard and Al Ettifaq were selected to sign the world’s second highest scoring defender in history. For extra excitement Connor Goldson was thrown into the deal before he opted for a pay off and a switch to Cyprus.
The main European transfer windows closed without any credible interest in Captain Disappointed, in his first post window appearance he resumed his traditional role in the long running ‘joust’ with Daizen Maeda.
With the clock ticking down, this morning the Record revived a favoured yarn with:
Rangers resolve to keep James Tavernier will reportedly be tested by former boss Gio van Bronckhorst with Besiktas reportedly weighing up a bid.
Tavernier has been heavily linked with a move away all window with Steven Gerrard‘s Al-Ettifaq and Trabzonspor, who signed both Borna Barisic and John Lundstram, firmly interested earlier in the summer – but the end of the UK window appeared to draw a line under the prospect of an exit for the long-serving Ibrox skipper. However last week Turkish clubs Istanbul Basaksehir, Fenerbahce and Galatasaray were credited with as well as Al-Arabi and Al-Garafa in Qatar.
The Qatari window closes today while Turkish clubs can make signings up until Friday September 13 – and reports suggest that Van Bronckhorst is pushing for his side to make a late move for his former Rangers’ captain. According to Turkish newspaper Kuzey Ekspres, Besiktas have “stepped in” to the race for the 32-year-old with the clock ticking on the window.
The report from the Curry Express is probably some desperate office junior recycling earlier reports from the Record who spent three months trying to convince their elderly readers that Mister Gerrard was spending every minute of every day trying to sign his former penalty taker.
There is no resolve at Ibrox to keep Tav as the captaincy issued demonstrated. Removing one of the final legacy contracts, even with a pay off would help cut into John Bennett’s drive to reduce £10m from the annual pay roll.
With the failure of Ryan Kent and John Lundstram to make any impact in Turkey or to justify their wages it is hard to see any Turkish club will be matching Tav’s wages with the former Wigan man turning 33 next month.
Just looked at his stats and he has scored 40 “match winning” goals and as most of them will be penalties it further highlights the cheating.
Same story headlines that had Morelos going for £60mil.
Kent for £30mil.
All the others who went for mega millions.
At the end of the day there was not many sold for the Rangers overpriced expectations, most have left as freebies.
Tavernier has never been much of a player, he made a name by scoring penalties, defensively he was and is a liability.
Now Goldson has gone, everyone can see how bad Tavernier is, Goldson got the blame far to often for the defensively absent Tavernier.
A ball boy could do as much.
No loss to the game in Scotland if he goes, except for having laugh at.
Waeoot eez goals they’d be BOATIM 6 last Yr lol! Trying tae PUNT him tae avoid giein him a Testimonial! Good AULD SKINTO FC BAWAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Tav’s penalty stats have highlighted to the world the state of refereeing in Scotland.
Remember all the Comical Ali stuntmen nickel&dime Scottish mug journalis spreading FAKE NEWS stories about Tavpen and Goldson the defender who doubled up as a goalie,were to be sold fir a combined total of £30 million to the Saudis.
Now the klub can’t even get a bag of gingies for them.