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Rangers demand £7.6 million as a multimillion-dollar offer is made for a first-team player today
Rangers have rejected an official offer from Galatasaray for Ridvan Yilmaz and are demanding £7.6m for a deal to be done, according to Yagiz Sabuncuoglu.
Writing on his personal Twitter account (27 January), the reliable Turkish journalist reported earlier on Saturday that the Istanbul club had made an offer of £2.5m plus bonuses to loan the left-back before the deadline this month.
But after the 22-year-old started in the 1-0 win over St Mirren, the Ibrox club have rejected the offer and want £3.8m to loan him now plus a further £3.8m obligation clause to make the deal permanent.
EXCLUSIVE: Rangers rejected Galatasaray’s loan offer with a purchase option of 3 million euros (£2.5m),” he wrote.
“The Scottish team requested a rental fee of 4.5 million euros (£3.8m) with a compulsory purchase clause or a direct transfer fee of 4.5 million euros (£3.8m).
“If Galatasaray accepts the request; The transfer will be completed.”
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Well this transfer is now picking up steam and it’s no surprise that Rangers are pushing a hard bargain before agreeing to anything.
When the window started Yilmaz was an injury prone, second choice squad player but his fitness has held up well and he is now the first-choice left-back ahead of Borna Barisic and playing extremely well.
Philippe Clement would be crazy to just let him leave at this point considering how things have turned, and if Galatasaray want to take him back to Turkey then they have to make an offer that makes sense for Rangers to let him go.
If they’re not willing to do that then it’s clear the club should be more than willing to keep hold of him if he’s going to keep performing to this level, because he’ll play regularly and keep us competing.
If they return with the big offer then it would represent a profit for a player who hasn’t ripped up any trees and has struggled for fitness despite showing promise, and would be good business. Win-win.
