Rangers Shocked – Club chiefs disclose to Rangers player they wanted to sign in January is ‘Already Sold’

Jefte’s expected summer move to Rangers has been called into question as Prodromos Petrides stated

that he is “already sold” on signing with APOEL permanently.

Speaking to Super Sport FM, the Cypriot side’s president reiterated, according to the Daily Record (13 April),

that they intend to convert the Brazilian full-back’s loan into a long-term deal this summer, and he is on board.

The 20-year-old appeared to be on his way to Ibrox in January after Rangers signed a deal with his parent club Fluminense,

but APOEL forced the agreement to collapse by demanding a matching sum, despite Jefte refusing to train as he pursued the move.

Fabrizio Romano later reported that a verbal deal had been reached for Philippe Clement to sign his man in the summer,

but Petrides now claims that is not the case.

He stated of a permanent contract to keep the defender at the club: “No, it is not prohibited.

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Given our current financial situation, we’re trying everything we can to get an agreement to stay.

“Let me put it this way: he has already sold. We have proposals for Fluminese. We want him to stay; we want to buy him.

Rangers’ signing from Fluminense is off again thanks to APOEL?

Petrides’ admission that economics are a stumbling problem suggests that it may not matter

how convinced they have been about the player if they can’t pay him,

especially because Rangers were understood to have already set up a cash transaction.

It would undoubtedly be extremely frustrating for Philippe Clement

if his move for the young left-back fell through in successive windows when everything appeared to be in place to bring him in.

However, it is unclear how much of the APOEL chief’s allegations are accurate and how much is public negotiating and brinkmanship.

Jefte was supposed to replace the departing Ridvan Yilmaz in the January transfer window,

but the Turk stayed and appears to be settling nicely at Ibrox.

Borna Barisic, on the other hand, is set to sign with Trabzonspor when his Rangers contract expires in the summer,

though problems in Turkey appear to have pushed that off for the time being.

So, in theory, any unfavorable developments in the pursuit of the Fluminense kid may have an impact on the Croatian veteran.

Finally, a verbal agreement is just that, and it is readily broken. Unless it requires APOEL collaboration,

it should be easy to acquire a binding agreement for a future transfer, so the door remains open for the image to change.

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