GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - DECEMBER 21: (L-R) Former Rangers Board Member George Letham, Rangers Chief Executive Officer Patrick Stewart and Chairman Fraser Thornton during a William Hill Premiership match between Rangers and Dundee at Ibrox Stadium, on December 21, 2024, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Alan Harvey/SNS Group via Getty Images)
It seems that austerity is almost over at Ibrox with a whopping £60m about to be raised by the sales of Jefte and Hamza Igamane. Substantial add-ons and bonus payments are expected to be included in the deals.
Last summer Phil Clement found the goalposts moved as three seasons of excessive spending failed to take the SPFL title from Celtic. The promises that he had been given when he replaced Micky Beale were no longer there with changes of Chairman and CEO.
With the offer of a substantial salary increase the former Monaco boss agreed to a contract extension as a freeze was put on spending while stars like Connor Goldson, Todd Cantwell, Scott Wright, Robbie McCrorie and Sam Lammers were sold for £810,000.
Now after a couple of wins over St Johnstone, Aberdeen, Fraserburgh and Dundee United it seems that the biggest clubs in Europe are ready to throw fortunes at Clement in return for some of his exciting young stars.
The Jefte and Igamane moonbeams are even more ridiculous than the fabled Alfredo Morelos transfer tales which started in China then covered most clubs in Europe.
The chunky Colombian eventually left as a free agent in the summer of 2023 and is no starring back in his homeland.
After the Rangers Review released the Jefte to Chelsea yarn on Monday Chris Jack was backtracking on today’s podcast, downgrading interest to the all covering ‘keeping tabs’ line.
Keeping tabs can include watching last week’s nightmare performance against the worst team in Manchester United’s history to remind themselves why Jefte was playing in Cyprus last season.
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‘Hopeium’ on. tap.
Its the Dope that Kills them
Can see another fire sale of shares coming along to keep lights on.
Or just set fire to ibrokes for the insurance money…..that’s if they’ve got insurance.!
For the love of fuck. Is that a real post. Cheered me right up. ??
Not to forget the perennial ’Leeds Utd prepare megabucks swoop for Ryan Kent’ fable which turned out to be less accurate than a Rangers tax return! Not only did they not ‘swoop’, they wouldn’t take a punt on the trailer park serial killer lookalike when he was free to a good home and he ended up jetting off to be the biggest turkey on the Bosporus before getting the bums rush from Fenerbahce and returning to the dole in England. I dare say he’ll be “keeping himself fit”, ie out running in the dogshit in public parks, in the desperate hope of getting a game somewhere… anywhere… even iBrox!
Jeez – They are truly hilarious for sure !