18 Aug 2023 11:00:03
Just had a Rangers memory pop up on my FB feed.
On this day 2001 we signed Michael Ball from Everton for 6.5M.
Apparently as part of the contract if he played 60 games, every subsequent game after he had to pay Ranger £4k. What a crazy contract.
Does anyone remember any other deals done for Rangers or any other team with something mental added to the deal?

1.) 18 Aug 2023
18 Aug 2023 12:23:33
A believe big boumsong got £1m signing on fee for us and then 10-20% of the fee when we sold him to Newcastle which was £8m so anything between £800k and £1.6m. Not bad for a seasons work and that’s not including his weekly wage which was likely about £30k a week

Did I read that correct mate? Mick ball had to pay rangers 4k for every game he played after playing 60games? So if he played 2 games a week he paid us £8k from his wages? Sounds a bit ridiculous mate I think someone’s having u on mate.

2.) 18 Aug 2023
18 Aug 2023 12:59:33
Yeah. pretty sure that wasn’t it. Think it was that after a certain number of games (thought it was 50 but could of been 60) a clause was activated where WE then had to pay Everton more (which as we know from current deals and add ons is fairly standard) . That was the period where we had started to cut back as were posting massive losses so basically couldn’t afford to play him so that we didn’t reach the number of games and activate the clause. He spent most of a season in the stands because of it.

3.) 18 Aug 2023
18 Aug 2023 15:00:19
I thought after Michael Ball had played 60 games for us we had to pay Everton a further 500k or something so we stopped playing him?
I could be wrong though.

4.) 18 Aug 2023
18 aug 2023 15:23:09
that's close to the truth goughy. we would have owed everton, i know that.

5.) 18 Aug 2023
18 Aug 2023 16:00:03
Was this under big eck and that’s why we couldn’t play him? I remember that now.

6.) 18 Aug 2023
18 Aug 2023 16:03:00
Correct goughy.

7.) 18 Aug 2023
18 Aug 2023 16:23:54
What i'd give to have another player like boumsong in the team right now thought he was class for us.

8.) 18 Aug 2023
18 Aug 2023 17:11:22
Just shared what i ready. The post said Ball paid us 4k per game after 60 games. Sounded ridiculous to me too when i read it.

9.) 18 Aug 2023
18 Aug 2023 17:17:29
Gers fan, u r not wide off mark, if he played 60 games we had to give Everton a 500k add on plus 4K per game

Ball alleged Murray asked him to pay the 4K or we would not play him, rangers refute this version of events.

10.) 18 Aug 2023
18 Aug 2023 19:23:26
That’s making a lot of sense now he’s maybe been asked to lose 4k a week from his wages in orders to play?
What an embarrassing state of affairs to get ourselves into.