It makes plenty of sense to join the revival at Rangers

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MICHAEL GANNON believes that players are showing ambition by joining the Ibrox side for their climb back up the divisions.

 

THE queue for the check-in desk at Murray Park is getting longer and with every new arrival comes the noise of tutting.

 

The players are only going there for the money. Theyâ??ve got no ambition going to the lower leagues.

 

Pure tosh.

 

The players are being asked these questions when they are just in the door and itâ??s not fair. These guys are professional footballers.

 

Of course itâ??s sport and in some ways itâ??s vocational but itâ??s not charity work. Itâ??s a career and a heck of a short one at that.

 

Weâ??re not talking about a Carlos Tevez here who wants to trade up his £150k a week for £250k.

 

The players involved in Scotland have got talent and are in a hurry to make the most of it. And whoâ??s to say going to Rangers is not a good career move for these guys?

 

The muttering and tutting coming from rivals fans is perhaps understandable.

 

The majority of SPL clubs are now fearing Rangers will pinch their best players. Theyâ??ve already done it with the likes of Nicky Law, Jon Daly and Cammy Bell.

 

Celtic fans donâ??t care much who their old pals are signing, itâ??s no odds to them as they are operating in a different market.

 

For the rest of the SPLâ??s fans, though, itâ??s all about frustration.

 

Clubs thought Rangers would be out of sight for years after the meltdown of 2012.

 

Instead, they are still being haunted. They might be confident of getting the better of them on the park but they still canâ??t compete with the wages on offer off it, even in these uncertain times.

 

But itâ??s no reason to take it out on the players. How could they turn it down? The market Rangers are shopping in at the moment is probably comparable to clubs in the lower half of the English Championship, or even League One.

 

So the players have a choice. Make a move to a Huddersfield or Peterborough and spend two years busting a gut to get the heck out of whatever god-forsaken town theyâ??re in to do what?

 

Win a move elsewhere â?? to somewhere like Rangers when they are back in the SPL.

 

Save yourself the upheaval. Go straight there and put up with a couple of seasons in the dungeons before getting back to the big time.

 

And thatâ??s if the game-makers donâ??t rip up the divisions and catapult them back up before then.

 

Itâ??s a no brainer.

 

For guys like Jon Daly, who is getting towards the latter stages of his career, itâ??s a phenomenal move.

 

He will be earning several times what he has in the past decade and playing for one of the best-supported clubs in the UK.

 

Daly has done his time down south and so has Law. Itâ??s a brutal 46-game campaign with countless hours on the bus travelling hundreds of miles.

 

Itâ??s not glamorous â?? and itâ??s certainly not ambitious either.

 

In contrast there is proving yourself at a huge club thatâ??s fallen on the worse of times while making a few quid for your family in the process.

 

Then see if you can hack it when theyâ??re really back in business.

 

Now thatâ??s ambition.

 

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