Rangers transfer news as key investor says club must enter market in ‘bigger way’
The Herald journalist Chris Jack has shared comments made by key Rangers investor Stuart Gibson who confessed the club need to enter the summer transfer window in a “bigger way”.
Gibson, who is the third largest shareholder at the club admitted that Rangers are now “financially sustainable” and need a handful of players in the summer window.
The Japan-based investor believes Rangers need to figure out a way to increase the pool of money available to the director of football Ross Wilson.
“They’re sustainable now. But we’re second in the league. We’re nine points behind Celtic and that’s just not acceptable,” said Gibson on the This is Ibrox podcast as quoted by The Herald. (10 March)
“We’d have accrued that same wealth had we been in that position but again we’re behind Celtic so we still have to have more money to be able to go into the transfer market, I think in a bigger way.
“I think we probably need a handful of players to be honest during the summer and they’ll probably cost more than £1m or £2m a time so we do need to figure out a way to actually increase that pool of money that is available for the Director of Football.”
Big summer needed.
Rangers need a massive summer transfer window, one which ticks all the boxes for the squad’s needs moving into the new campaign.
Fans would prefer smart and inquisitive transfers rather than big-money moves that don’t pay off and the responsibility of this falls to Wilson to achieve.
His track record in transfer windows is far from fantastic, however, and fans will look towards Michael Beale’s involvement in January to get the talents he wants in at Ibrox.
Todd Cantwell and Nicolas Raskin have had a bright start to life in Glasgow and Rangers could be flying if a few more players of a similar ilk joined Beale’s exciting project.
If those two signings are a slight insight into what might be coming in the summer transfer window, then Rangers fans are in for a treat.
In what promises to be a summer of change, Wilson and the rest of the Rangers board must get this one extremely right, another season languishing behind Celtic wouldn’t go down well at all.
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