Seven Ibrox stars worth £25m can go for just £8m following pay cut deals

[ian1964 10,428]

RECORD SPORT can today reveal the full multi-million pound cost of the secret sweeteners handed out to Ally McCoistâ??s most valuable stars by Duff and Phelps.

 

Even by conservative estimates, the eye-watering reductions slash the current market value of seven of Ally McCoistâ??s first-team stalwarts from around £25million to a fixed price of less than £8m.

 

And these cheap-as-chips deals look set to force owner Charles Green into overseeing a painful Ibrox jumble sale this summer.

 

The cut-price fees are the result of trade-offs made by Duff and Phelps when McCoistâ??s men agreed to take whopping 75 per cent wage cuts to keep the club in business.

 

The full list of bargain basement buys is being circulated around clubs in England and across Europe by agents who believe their clients can make a financial killing when the transfer market opens on June 1.

 

Record Sport has also received explosive details of the deals which were struck behind closed doors between David Whitehouse and Paul Clark, union boss Fraser Wishart and playersâ?? advisers.

 

And we can reveal skipper Steve Davis, keeper Allan McGregor, team talisman Steven Naismith, Northern Ireland striker Kyle Lafferty, Scotland full-back Steven Whittaker, USA international Maurice Edu and Romania defender Dorin Goian are the stand-out buys likely to attract most interest from vultures circling the stricken club.

 

Davis can go for a knockdown £1.65m and was already being lined up for a return to former club Aston Villa before they binned boss Alex McLeish on Monday.

 

Villa could yet return to the table for Davis who was signed for £4m from Fulham in the summer of 2008 after an initial loan period.

 

At 27 and captain of his country, Rangers could expect £5m for Davis under normal circumstances.

 

Scotland No.1 McGregor can be picked up for a flat fee of £2m â?? around £6m or £7m less than the prices being bandied about when he was linked with Spurs in 2009.

 

A fully-fit Naismith â?? who has already attracted serious interest from West Brom despite not kicking a ball for most of the campaign because of a cruciate injury â?? would probably be marked down as the single-most valuable asset following his blistering form over the previous two campaigns.

 

But his sale can be triggered if a bid of just £2m is tabled, which is just £100,000 more than Rangers paid to buy him from Kilmarnock.

 

After copping a two-week ban from the club following a bust-up with McCoist, Lafferty appears a racing certainty to want to cash in on his clause.

 

The £3.5m signing from Burnley is up for grabs at just £575,000 and Record Sport understands a firm bid could be imminent.

 

Whittaker has also never been more highly regarded after nailing down his place as a regular in Craig Leveinâ??s Scotland side.

 

But although the player Rangers bought from Hibs for £2m in August 2007 is now entering his prime and tied up on a long-term new deal heâ??s on the market for just £850,000.

 

At just £300,000, USA midfielder Edu might be viewed as the biggest bargain of the lot, given his experience of representing his country at the highest level including the World Cup in South Africa. That price represents a massive £2.3m loss on a player who was lured to Scotland four years ago in a £2.6m deal.

 

Goian appeared to be something of a steal last summer when McCoist picked him up for £750,000. But Rangers donâ??t even stand to turn a profit on the 31-year-old as his deal allows him to move on for only £500,000 should any clubs come calling over the next three months.

 

It had been hoped new Rangers owners might get the chance to negotiate with these players and urge them to rip up the recently redrawn contracts but Green arrived too late to open talks.

 

Now the man who plans to push through an £8.5m takeover of an already ravaged club could also be exposed to losing his biggest assets at fire-sale prices.

[chilledbear 16]

Any that stays should be awarded hero status.

[Blue Moon 1,114]

More sensationalist spin from a rag I stopped buying many years ago.

[Craigy1881 79]

I find this interesting, today we have McGregor coming out saying he wants to stay next season and Naismith has also suggested similar. Can we assume they have put these in place in-case Whyte was still in charge as a fail safe and not something they are 100% going to want to execute.

[Guest Guardian]

I guess we will just have to wait and see who stays and who goes. I wouldn't put much faith in a DR article as they are still Murrays Mouthpiece and they are sore at TBK losing out.

 

If we do lose players, we'll just have to accept that as part of the price for survival and move on.

 

We've lost players before and will do so again, but Rangers always prevail.

[ian1964 10,428]

I find this interesting, today we have McGregor coming out saying he wants to stay next season and Naismith has also suggested similar. Can we assume they have put these in place in-case Whyte was still in charge as a fail safe and not something they are 100% going to want to execute.

 

That's what I thought the players agreed to as well

[der Berliner 3,263]

You would think that this information is confidential. If I were a player, or indeed an admin, I'd be furious and try to find those we leaked this.

 

BTW, it should be "could go", not "can go".

[Tannochsidebear 2,316]

I see TBK are still not giving up.

 

This information was known to them as part of the bidding process, and now we have today this pathetic scare story together with Leggo's puff piece, all coming from the journos used by TBK during their black propaganda campaign to buy the club without any serious money.

 

This really has to stop now, so we as a club can begin to heal. If TBK had any feelings towards our club, they would stop this campaign. If they feel the Green consortium wont get the job done, then they should be spending their time trying to raise the cash they will need to launch a bid. Otherwise please go now and shut the hell up.

[GovanAllan 0]

So they put a price on themselves in case Whyte was still in control and they could leave while still getting some money for the club.

 

Turns into fire-sale at Ibrox you've got to love The Daily Rhebel if it was just a bit softer you could actually wipe your arse with it. I wonder does Liewell take a consultancy fee from them or does he steer them in the right direction out of the goodness of his own black heart.

[Tumshie RFC 0]

We will wait and see over the summer. I think a few of them will be going and if they do so will go with my best wishes. I think Naismith and McGregor will stay at the club though. From what I've heard McGregor likes being the "big fish in a small pond" when it comes to being in and around Glasgow and Naisy just simply loves being at Ibrox.