Rangers get reported £20m warning shot across bow as transfer “priority”
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Rangers get reported £20m warning shot across bow as transfer “priority” claim tested
Rangers need to start doing player trades correctly, as seen by the fees associated with the transfer reports,
as Celtic reject an offer for Matt O’Riley from Atletico Madrid.
O’Riley, a 23-year-old Danish international who has scored 10 goals and provided 12 assists this season,
is not improving, according to Parkhead manager Brendan Rodgers.
Although speculations of a loan proposal with a mandatory £20 million option accompanying it have Celtic refusing to back down,
it is obvious that the Parkhead team will soon make a significant profit on the midfield player.
It’s the most recent caution for Rangers, who are still lagging behind their competitors in the transfer
market and require significant adjustments to catch up to Celtic financially.
Rangers require successful “systemic” player trades.
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Rangers chairman John Bennett emphasized in his recent financial accounts for the team the necessity of better player trade.
Bennett acknowledged that the market for player trades can be “volatile,
” but the chairman of the Rangers insisted that the team needs to “replace sporadic ‘wins’ with systematic success.”
Bennett branded player trading a “priority” for the current Board, whilst Rangers manager
Philippe Clement has also recently touched on his need to develop players for future sale in Glasgow.
With season ticket sales, commercial revenue, and European football making up the other three pillars
of the Ibrox club’s business model, player trade has been referred to as the “fourth pillar.”
The Gers have had some success in this area. Despite Patterson’s success at the Academy and the other
two costing a total of £550k, Nathan Patterson (£16m to Everton),
Joe Aribo (£10m to Southampton), and Calvin Bassey (£23m to Ajax) all helped the club turn a healthy profit.
But as of right now, it seems like that model has come to an abrupt end, with very few players in the
current team matching the description of young, driven, talented individuals who can someday make you a fortune.
In light of all of this, Mohamed Diomande’s move, a young Ivorian player rumored to be close to a £4.5 million deal,
is definitely a positive move.
The tip of the Celtic transfer iceberg is Matt O’Riley
Matt O’Riley has a four-year deal with Celtic and is almost certainly going to leave the team in the summer,
therefore the club is currently sitting on an inevitable £20 million+ sale.
This comes after years of huge financial transactions at Parkhead,
with Portuguese winger Jota reportedly netting the team £25 million in the summer.
In recent seasons, you can add Odsonne Edouard (£14m to Crystal Palace),
Kieran Tierney (£25m to Arsenal), and Moussa Dembele (£20m to Lyon) to that list.
The trades for Fraser Forster, Virgil van Dijk, Jeremie Frimpong, Victor Wanyama, Kristoffer Ajer,
and Fraser Forster are added, and all of a sudden you see the kind of “systemic success”
that John Bennett is looking for at Rangers.
Rangers has been too risk adverse in the transfer market to take these kinds of gambles with their squad,
even though Celtic have years on us given the financial crash of 2012.
One such instance is the hesitancy surrounding Joey Veerman, who might now be on track to make a fortune for PSV.
While the Parkhead team has experienced several howlers over the same time frame and still does,
their Ibrox counterparts have been reluctant to take significant risks.
The Rangers have just received a warning shot across their player trading bow from Matt O’Riley,
indicating that everything is about to change.
Rangers must start making improvements in this area if they hope to balance the books in Glasgow,
as an extra £30 million is at stake for Champions League qualification the following season.
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