Soccer Football - Scottish League Cup - Semi Final - Rangers v Aberdeen - Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - January 15, 2023 Rangers' Malik Tillman goes down Action Images via Reuters/Jason Cairnduff
The Rangers Review has revived the classic Malik Tillman transfer story involving a loan deal absolutely unique in world football.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst stunned the universe in the summer of 2022 when he brought in the midfielder on loan from Bayern Munich with Director of Football Ross Wilson putting together a deal that is nothing short of astonishing.
Normally clubs pay a loan fee for a player, often they take on their wages and sometimes an agreement or option to buy is included. But not in this case.
Once Tillman opted not to go back near Micky Beale’s new look squad the Rangers Review came up with the most incredible yarn to deflect from the hurt of being snubbed by the Bayern midfielder.
Firstly Bayern Munich actually paid out a fee for Tillman to play alongside Ryan Jack, John Lundstram and the other plodders in the Ibrox midfield but topping that off a % of any future transfer fee would head to Ibrox in recognition of their role in the development of Tillman.
Never before and never since has any club constructed such a loan deal but offered comforting good news all of the media messengers accepted the story as gospel and ran with it.
In need of further good news the Rangers Review, run by Newsquest with Johnny McFarlane as Editor have decided on an update.
No way do they still think they get money for him?????????? pic.twitter.com/9Th81wbdgz
— Craig Whyte (@RIPRFC) January 11, 2025
Rangers could be due a £3.5 million windfall after former loan star Malik Tillman revealed he wants to return to Bayern Munich in the future.
The American international was a huge success during his season-long spell on loan at Rangers in 2022/23.
Tillman made his loan move from Bayern Munich to PSV Eindhoven permanent last summer in a £12 million deal, landing Rangers a reported £1.2 million windfall after the German giants had a change of heart about an agreed deal to allow the Ibrox club to sign him after his loan spell.
Rangers received the compensation after the Bundesliga club pulled out of the agreement and a further 10 per cent sell-on fee was included in the settlement.
Bayern have a buy-back agreement in place to re-sign Tillman for £35 million, which would entitle Rangers to a cool bonus of £3.5 million.
And the 22-year-old midfielder has admitted his aim is to return to Bayern in the future.
Having struck gold with Tillman the Ibrox club failed to impose similar clauses into the loan deals for Abdallah Sima and Vaclav Cerny.
Despite the ‘cool bonus’ of £3.5m on the way, Phil Clement will be limited to making one loan signing this month as he grimly hangs onto his job.
After shifting five first team players during the summer for combined fees of £810,000 there is virtually no interest in Clement’s serial losers this month.
There is no race from clubs worldwide to sign Cyriel Dessers with even the Daily Record resisting their favourite ‘Gerrard set to swoop for James Tavernier in mega bucks deal’.
Kieran Dowell, Rabbi Matondo, Danilo, Jack Butland, Dessers and Tavernier are all under contract beyond the end of this season.
Ermmm… even assuming that BS was true initially (yeah, I know, but let’s humour them for a minute), the guy left Bayern a while ago. If they were due to receive anything, it would have been when he left for PSV. Why would PSV have agreed to pay them a percentage of the fee if/when they sell him on/back? Why would Bayern have put that in a buy-back clause? Do these clowns really think they’ll be due a cut of all of his transfer fees for the rest of his playing career?
Also, wasn’t the real reason he didn’t come back to Ibrox partly due to them not being willing or able to afford £5m for a player that, despite the rose tinted nonsense they’re now spouting about his time there, the fans had dismissed as “not a Rangers standard player”? Much like Diallo, who is also now thriving at Man Utd, having left that midden?
So, going by the crazy gangs theory, Sevco will receive remuneration from EVERY transfer that Tilman completes throughout his career. (;-0)
HH
If they netted a “£1.2m windfall” when he wen to PSV then why was there no mention of it in the club accounts??
For that bizarre story to resurface – and with a few other nonsense bits added –
things must be really, really desperate at ibrox now?
We shouldn’t laugh at another club’s misfortune…
too much? 🙂 🙂 🙂
Aye we should laugh Bob (original)…
At Sevco –
Let’s all laugh at Sevco, Let’s all laugh at Sevco… Ha Ha Ha Ha – Ha Ha Ha Ha !
desperate people do desperate things . i feel a song coming on ……. hush !!!
Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be rainin’, but there’s a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you (let somebody love you)
You better let somebody love you
Before it’s too late ……. Oops !!! too late !!!!! chortle !!
Lets call it what it is…..outright lies.
Utter pish written purely to soothe and placate hordes of rabid entitled fans.
We all know that fanbase is off the scale mental, but the Scottish sports media are directly responsible for an enormous percentage of their thought processes.
Fed moonbeams and rainbows for over a decade, never a negative word or story, no in depth examination of the goings on inside Ibrokes.
They actually do think everything is ok and that’s entirely down to the blanket blackout from the press.
Just read Keech Jackass today, he would rather tear the new CEO to pieces than actually write the hard truth, he knows the club is up the creek, but god forbid you put it in print.
That’s the sinister part for me, the number of paid journalists, pundits and commentators who just will not utter one word if criticism…..why?
Cos they know they would lose their paycheques and feel the wrath of a twisted, dangerous support who already have previous for it.