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
Of all the nonsense and fantasies to emerge out of Ibrox coverage in recent years the Malik Tillman tale is one of the most ridiculous.
After making 41 appearances in a season of misery under Gio van Bronckhorst and Micky Beale the American midfielder made it very clear that he wouldn’t be returning to follow up on that loan spell.
That sort of brutal truth isn’t the sort of news that Ibrox fans want to read about, rather than leave the story Ewan Paton of The Rangers Review conjured up an incredible deflection.
In a contract type that has never been repeated it was revealed that Bayern Munich paid Sevco for taking the player on loan and threw in the bonus of a 10% cut on any transfer fee they received!
Most media outlets decided to report that detail as gospel, incredibly the Daily Record is still on the case with a further £3.5m heading to Ibrox from a subsequent transfer fee.
The Daily Record reveals:
The 23-year-old left the Bavarian giants to join PSV on a permanent deal last summer for a fee of around £12million but Bayern inserted a buy-back clause that would allow them to re-sign the attacking midfielder for a fixed sum of £35million.
Rangers banked a reported £1.2million from that transfer last year after Bayern had a change of heart about an agreed deal to allow the Light Blues to sign Tillman permanently at the end of his loan spell, receiving 10 per cent of PSV’s transfer fee as result.
Tillman has been very vocal about his desire to return to the Allianz Arena in the future and with, Bayern’s buy-back clause on the player remains active until June 2025, the Light Blues would be entitled to a further 10 per cent from the transfer which would see them collect a healthy £3.5million.
If there is any truth in the above whoever negotiates contracts at Bayern is the most incompetent in football, on a par with the guy that offered five year contracts to the job lot of signings made by Celtic in the summer of 2023.
Among the incredible detail on the original Ibrox loan deal they were being given a 10% slice of the entire subsequent fee, not just the £23m profit that PSV are about to make. The purpose of a buy back is to resign the player at a rate significantly below market value.
Despite the success of the loan deal for Tillman the same terms weren’t used in the loan contracts for Abdalah Sima and Vaclav Cerny.
The glue sniffers are at it again at the daily sevco,Ramsdale on his way to ibrox onloan for the season,they then go on to tell us that his wage is £100,000 a week and that he wants to get back into the England squad for the world cup.
F**k that’s 2 goalkeepers they will have at ibrox fighting over that number 1 goalkeeping jersey,bye bye Jordan Pickford.
Infact I’m quite surprised they don’t bring him in that way they will be guaranteed having the England number 1 in their squad.
Quite a hefty tax bill on that kind of profit, I’m sure it will be paid in full.?
The really surprising point related to this story is that The DR can still shift c.40K papers a day!
Is that the number of sevco season ticket holders…? 🙂
If you didn’t live on the west coast of Scotland, and read stuff like this, it would be up there with all the classic fairytale nonsense.
But we do, and we know it’s real.
And that frightens the absolute f**k out of me.
If this was true, can anyone at the Daily Record point to where this mythical £1.2m payment appears in any of Sevco’s recent accounts?
Putting reality to one side for a second, even if they did get a slice of the PSV transfer fee, why would they be entitled to anything if he moves on from PSV? Even if it is back to Bayern via a buyback? Why would PSV have agreed to a club, whose only connection with this guy was a loan deal and option to buy, both of which had expired by the time he arrived at PSV, getting a share of any future transfer fee?
If they do sell him back to Bayern and, in a few years’ time, Bayern sell him on again, will these clowns be claiming that Sevco is due a slice of that fee too? And every other fee this guy is sold on for, for the rest of his career?
From The DR about the EGM;
“…That question drew a plain spoken response from Cavenagh:
“I’ll be very blunt. We don’t have an exit plan, we have a growth plan. We’ll figure out the exit plan once we succeed with the growth…”
Freudian slip there? Nobody mentioned exit plan.
Heard it before: here for the long-term, love this business, etc. And then gone ASAP: as soon as they can flip their stake for a decent return.
And this new rule that foreign buyers can acquire 51% of shares – without being obligated to offering to buy up the remaining shares
won’t end well?
“Fraud on the Minority” might become a more frequently heard phrase – even at ibrox…?
Didn’t see that money in their accounts that were published.
Now the yanks Interest in Sevco 2012 makes more sense.
They obviously found out about the Tilliman contract and thought
Wow that’s a cracking little earner we need a piece of that action
The rag Record had 3 print scoops covering theRangers EGM yesterday and a while later added another one of their scoops to the party , with at least 2 digital keyboard ranch hands swinging from the chandeliers too …Yee hah ! Oh , and the tabloid was allowed to film the proceedings at the shareholders’ pow wow . Must have cost a fortune for the privilege or maybe a freebie from the new proprietors …as a ‘ good will ‘ gesture ? Another new partnership ? Big Andy actually got to shake Mr Cavenagh’s hand ! There’s one paw that won’t be getting washed …ever again !
The Zombies are at it again today with a bid of £10 million being put to Southampton for one of their players.
That £20 million transfer kitty must have some size of elastic band on it.
The daily sevco at it again with an interview with the £12 million flop man Tore Andre,this ARSEHOLE has predicted sevco winning the league this season.
Just who else are they going to dig up next fir prediction,Sir Watty.
Sevco will listen to offers of over £20 million for the Morrocan Messi with clubs throughout Europe and West Ham ready to start a bidding war.
I’m sure them firing out this pish straight after hearing we could be getting a fee for OH is just a coincidence
To those on here that are daft enough to read The Scummy Record And The Scummy Scottish Football Media in general…
These ‘peepil’ are extracting the urine outta youse…
Or in ma on laungage – Taking the pure fuckin piss…
They are Pathological Lying Bastards of the highest order…
Please don’t believe them !!!
The Daily Trump playing to its audience of Credulous Cretins!
If they had a 10% sell on, is that not on the first sale (Bayern to PSV), why then would they get 10% on the next sale (PSV to Bayern).
What was it £1m to take him on loan, plus £1.2m from the sale of a player they didn’t own and now a further £3.5m from a 2nd sale of same said player. Surely there are rules around plausibility when you make stuff up for a living. Even the eTims guys who openly tell you its made up before you read the article wouldnt pen such see through garbage.
Editor: Won’t be long before the Record tells their Army of Readers that Sevco pick up £50,000 every time Tillman scores, £100,000 for every international appearance and £10m every time he wins the World Cup or Champions League. An incredible loan deal.