I wonder if any of those highly paid players kissed the badge? I really wish something could be done to stop the madness in football? There has to be a break point surely! 16:15 Duff & Phelps "We are announcing today we are accelerating the sale of Rangers Football Club. The club is in a perilous financial situation and that should not be under-estimated. Regrettably, we have been unable to agree cost-cutting measures with the playing staff on terms that will preserve value in the business. We understand the players' position as the scale of wage cuts required to achieve these savings without job losses were very substantial indeed... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17285309
so your blaming players who havnt been paid for months for exercising a clause in their contract allowing them to become free agents? or players who have a contract for refusing to defer wages? say filip kiss turned out to be rubbish, there wouldnt be any loyalty from the club or fans to keep the player and give him a long term contract, at the end of the day thats professional football to you. players follow the money, but also, clubs see players as assets that they can buy and sell as they wish. roberto martinez, paulo sousa etc... they didnt show any loyalty to swansea did they??
Glasgow is not a great place not to be showing club loyalty. If that makes sense. Very much a goldfish bowl.
That's the point Swamp, the ones mentioned are not exercising the right to walk away, they want money that isn't there. Deferring the wage is a sensible move. The players are the biggest earners in the club but and I would suggest they supplement their poor wages with individual sponsorship deals. In doing so they are using Rangers as a bargaining chip when negotiating the sponsorship deals given the coverage Rangers gets. They must surely know if the club goes bust their bargaining power is diluted. If they stay and take the hit, the club (hopefully) survives and they come out of it with a reputation enhanced because they were loyal to the fans (not club). Instant "Legend" status. Behind the scenes they have an "agreed wage protection" in place that is payable as and when the funds are available. I also suspect some of the more intelligent players have an insurance policy in place for loss of earnings. On the flips side the liquidators will cancel the contracts and close the club if they can't get a buyer in the next few weeks. I have more sympathy for the likes of Port Vale where players play for more realistic wages and do suffer when the going gets tough, I hope the players union help these guys more if not equally as the pampered "superstars" of Rangers.
