Philippe Clement very unhappy at Rangers situation as club now set for another exit

According to Chris Jack,

Philippe Clement is unhappy with the situation at Rangers,

which will result in the team losing Robby McCrorie.

Speaking on the Rangers Review Morning Briefing on June 5,

the journalist revealed that the goalie is now expected to leave after making a transfer request in January and refusing a new contract offer subsequently.

The 26-year-old has a year left on his present contract, and the Light Blues have put a £500,000 price tag on him,

with Jack speculating that a “hefty” sell-on clause will be included,

but the manager is dissatisfied that another player is about to leave once his contract runs out.

John Lundstram, Ryan Jack, Kemar Roofe,

and Borna Barisic will all leave on free transfers this summer as their contracts expire,

following in the footsteps of Ryan Kent,

Alfredo Morelos, Scott Arfield, and Filip Helander a year ago.

Jack stated of McCrorie’s expected departure (5m 30s): “He’s in the final year of his contract.

The manager has addressed the situation of the past few weeks.

He is dissatisfied, to put it mildly,

that so many people have been allowed to go to the last stage of their transaction.

“It’s really a case now of either you use Robby or you lose him,

and everything points to Rangers losing him.”
Robby McCrorie is headed for a cheap Rangers exit.

With the exception of Roofe and maybe Jack, whose recurring injury difficulties may have made the expiration of their contracts a relief,

the amount of players who have left for free in the previous two summers is concerning.

Helander is another Ibrox player whose career was derailed by injury,

and Jack has previously been linked with a return on a pay-per-play basis [David Tanner, 1 June].

However, Clement made it clear that he didn’t want to lose McCrorie if a new contract was offered.

He had already stated that he would prefer Barisic to stay [Football Scotland, 3 November], and the two are anticipated to reconnect in Turkey.

It is understandable that the manager is unimpressed when he is trying to restock the squad on a tight budget when Rangers might have made a respectable amount of money for all three players in addition to Morelos and Kent with better management of the transfer market.

At this point, McCrorie’s departure is not shocking at all,

and with Jack Butland on board,

things were only going to get harder to manage if he flourished and became a transfer target for the Premier League.

Even though a strong backup plan has been prepared for Clement’s departure,

it can be argued that the homegrown keeper’s circumstances were mishandled before Clement arrived when Jon McLaughlin was chosen to open the season as starting two seasons ago.

Although knowing when to sell and when to re-sign players is not a precise science,

Rangers have seen several chances to earn a return pass them by.

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