Michael Beale appears to lose £500,000 transfer boost at Rangers as Scott Wright footage is released after talks
Scott Wright’s move to Pendikspor looks like it may be off after the he was spotted at Rangers training in footage released by the club on Tuesday (25 July).
The 25-year-old spoke to Sky Sports at the airport last week (19 July) as he flew out to Turkey, where he admitted a fee had been agreed between the two sides but stopped short of confirming that the deal was done.
The Scottish Sun (17 July) had reported the price that Rangers were set to receive for selling the former Aberdeen man was £500,000, but the Scot was apparently back at Auchenhowie this week with the rest of the squad.
Wright was spotted wearing an orange bib alongside is Ibrox teammates in a video posted to the official Rangers Twitter account ahead of Wednesday’s friendly with Olympiacos.
That seems to suggest that the move to Pendikspor is off, since not only is he back in Glasgow but he is putting in work with the team.
Were a sale imminent following face to face talks with his prospective new club he surely wouldn’t be risking an injury on the training ground, even if he was still technically a Rangers player.
In the Sky Sports interview before he boarded the flight to Turkey the questioning had treated the move as a foregone conclusion, but Wright more than once responded in a way which suggested he still had a decision to make.
He had said: “Obviously the club’s agreed a fee and I’ll go out and have a look and see what I think.”
It would therefore appear, barring a strange set of circumstances, that he decided the move wasn’t for him and he is either better off with the Light Blues or a move elsewhere.
The half-million fee would likely have boosted Michael Beale’s transfer budget as he looks to close deals for the likes of Danilo and Jose Cifuentes, and push on for his final targets after that.
So, absent a new suitor swooping in to take Wright off his hands he might now be faced with a player he had agreed could leave as he wouldn’t be playing much, and a six-figure fee knocked off his spending power.
In other Rangers news, the club are expected to end the transfer window “strongly” with substantial business on the cards after the Danilo deal.