Rangers Transfer Rumours

13 Sep 2026 22:57:11
Is there any truth in big McCulloch coming in to take the position of Purdy's departure?

12 Sep 2026 12:42:51
Souttar to Aris is apparently off.

12 Sep 2026 13:11:29
What's happened the John Souttar deal is off RFC🤔.

12 Sep 2026 13:18:09
Thats not good for either party. Am sure by now everybody knows the story as to why he's not involved at the club. He will be desperate for a fresh start. Not a bad lad either👍.

12 Sep 2026 13:19:44
Sws, I have just newly read, outstanding financial problems between Souttar and Rangers and most likely John Souttar will still be a Rangers player.

12 Sep 2026 13:57:30
Failed his medical by any chance. Apparently he was offered a 3 year deal, pending a medical, which was today.

12 Sep 2026 14:16:53
Souttar wants a significant payoff and full payment off his signing on fee.

12 Sep 2026 13:04:20
Would be a disappointing development for all involved if true, if you don't mind me asking where did you get this nugget of information from?!

12 Sep 2026 13:27:56
Financial problems??? Have we not been paying him his wages what's actually going on??? Worst come to the worst then he's a good back up.

12 Sep 2026 14:42:05
It's online everywhere.

12 Sep 2026 14:50:33
Absolutely mental 🇬🇧 what happens next?

12 Sep 2026 14:59:53
Saw it on Herald site that Souttar wanted a full payout of contract from us and was told no.

12 Sep 2026 15:10:18
To be fair if club are forcing him out no matter the reason he's quite right to demand his full pay.

Or he can just wait to jan and collect money.

12 Sep 2026 15:33:38
Weneedahero, why would we pay him his full contract because he is getting transferred? So should we pay everyone the remainder of their contract if we sell them? Wow, that would set some prescident.

12 Sep 2026 15:35:28
Can only see an article on Yahoo sports but from what I've read it sounds like soapy is now trying to hold the club to ransom in order to get a sweetener to go before completing the transfer.

12 Sep 2026 16:16:36
Orange, exactly what I was thinking. Doesn't make sense.

12 Sep 2026 16:20:12
If he's being asked to take a significant drop in wages to move, which I suspect may well be the case given the destination, then he's quite within his rights to make whatever stipulations in that agreement that he wants.

No-one on here would walk away from a contract for less than that contract guarantees. Well, no-one with any financial sense anyway!

Ultimately, Rangers are better off either way. Either he goes and they pay it, while also collecting a transfer fee, or he doesn't go and they pay it and get nothing for him.

Given the relationship with the club looks to have broken down it's hardly surprising that he's not just skipping off into the distance for a pay cut. This is what happens when you piss off an employee.

Personally, I'd pay it and take the transfer fee as we're better off overall. Nose and face. Souttar clearly doesn't care whether he plays or not.

12 Sep 2026 16:38:46
Gdog its not Souttars choice McInnes wanted him as big part of the squad. Cavanagh said no way he's done. Huge huge part of the fall out is from the scandal that broke in the news at Christmas time if you remember. It all exploded at the end of the season.

12 Sep 2026 16:41:33
I have left a job for less money and never looked back. Sometimes cash is not worth showing up every day.

12 Sep 2026 16:42:52
Google i agree he has a right to ask for the difference in the two salaries. If he is asking for full payout of his contract and getting a new contracted wage on top he is just being greedy.

He has no future with us and will only hurt his chances of both playing for another club and his country if he continues with his stance. He has been, well payed for doing heehaw this season. Time to move on.

12 Sep 2026 16:55:35
Sorry Gdog not Google.

12 Sep 2026 15:50:07
Stick him out to train on his own, pay him nada and wait till his contract ends, then he can p off, Waster.

12 Sep 2026 15:52:58
He's a greedy person! 😡😡.

12 Sep 2026 17:14:01
Ridiculous comment trueblue.

12 Sep 2026 17:35:19
JFM10, why? i am entitled to my opinion, i don't care whether you agree or not, your reply above does not differ much from mine except mines is a bit stronger, Souttar should be papped as all greedy players should be, end of story.

12 Sep 2026 17:43:31
Because you cannot pay him nada as he has a contract. Putting him to train on his own is not a problem. There is such a thing as employment law. That's why.

12 Sep 2026 18:44:00
If he refuses to go due to those demands then for me he'd spend the rest of his time training with the youth and attending every game to watch in the stands. See who wants to sign him and what deal he'd get after that.

12 Sep 2026 18:53:31
I understand why you feel that way Alloa but I don't think our club would treat a player like that. I think its in everyone's best interest for him to move. Whatever the fallout has been he's obviously digging his heels in. Hopefully it gets sorted.

12 Sep 2026 19:09:14
He's perfectly entitled to what he's due. He's not being greedy. We offered him the contract, whether you think it was ridiculous at the time or not, he's only wanting what he's entitled to. Play him or don't play him but pay him his contract.

12 Sep 2026 19:30:51
Scottish i don't know why its different with football or if it even is.
If I have a contact in a job for £23, 000 and I choose to move job. My new employer pays me and my old employers says bye.

I don't get the remainder of the years contract before I leave.
Why should he get paid up for a contract if he's no longer working. It doesn't happen away from football as far as I know.

12 Sep 2026 19:44:43
If he signs another contract with another club Scotty then he is due nothing more from us. Don't see what's hard to work out here.

12 Sep 2026 20:06:23
Since he likes running coffee shops then stick him in the canteen, he can be our very own Barrista.

12 Sep 2026 21:00:59
Can Souttar be guilty of gross misconduct and sacked if the scandal that came out be proved against him?

12 Sep 2026 21:49:34
Wonder if he'll be booking anymore "Massage" Sessions in hotels down south?

12 Sep 2026 22:08:13
If the scandal is true, just sack him for gross misconduct and say bye, especially if he's wanting us to pay him a years wages and a fee.

12 Sep 2026 21:55:48
He is obviously losing money by going to the next club, he expects Rangers to make up some or all of those losses, nothing unusual nor underhand going on here.

Souttar has a contract from Rangers, it's a lucrative contract, therefore it's up to them to sweeten any deal to end that contract.

12 Sep 2026 22:24:17
If we can break even with the transfer fee then just let him go. It was stupidity giving him a new deal.

12 Sep 2026 22:42:01
If he didn't get a contract he would already have left for free.

12 Sep 2026 22:50:21
If he's wanting a payoff fair play but if he's wanting contract payed in full before leaving he's taking the piss.

13 Sep 2026 00:33:32
If he wants full contract pay off, just give him access to training facilities when everyone has completed there's, he can then train on his own for rest of season, see where that gets him come next summer, can say goodbye to Scotland career.

13 Sep 2026 01:08:43
I'm pretty sure FIFA recently passed a regulation meaning that all signed pros have to be given access to first team facilities and can't be forced to train alone.

13 Sep 2026 07:00:50
So just say Souttar is on 17k per week this aris club offer him 10k per week he's loosing 7k per week he obviously wants his full pay and rightly so. He's on 816k a year aris are offering 480k a year just say so we have to make the difference up of 336k.

If we are getting 1.4 million we will work out a deal he will probably be walking away with a 250k payment if we make a deal if not he gets his full 336k payout. We still bank 1 million plus it's a win win just pay him what he's owed and bank the million.

13 Sep 2026 09:07:34
Wallace that's responsible but from what others have said he want his full wage plus's a fee from us.

13 Sep 2026 09:08:47
I love reading the thread when all the employment lawyers are on. Quality


😂😂😂.

13 Sep 2026 07:37:54
True Blue your comment is ridiculous, you can't ask someone to see out their contract and pay him nada. You've blown your own opinion and argument by using the two very important words contract and nada.

To the others that want him out, something happened we all know that, but whatever happened wasn't severe enough to break the terms of his contract that much is obvious and nobody on here knows what his terms are.

As for asking for a full payout if that is true, it would appear that he doesn't want to go to Greece and would rather wait a little over 3 months for the transfer window to open again or if the club are "forcing" him out the door then he wants to be financially rewarded. He's obviously got an employment lawyer or agent who's advising him and he's perfectly within his rights to ask and we're perfectly within our rights to refuse, options and emotions don't count here.

Do you remember when the SNP stooge went to the highest court in the land asking for powers outside her remit and came away with that infamous line "its just not fair" well fairness and what's morally right or wrong don't count when a legally binding contract is involved.

Rangers have a problem moving on players and that's because we pay them over the odds, when you do that you run the higher risk of keeping them for too long and that appears tp be the case here.

Its Rangers problem not Souttars, as long as he makes himself available or heeds to what is in his contract or whatever Rangers have said to him he's entitled to his wage as per his contract details whether that's a percentage or full who knows but them!

My guess is he's waiting for the next window!

13 Sep 2026 09:16:09
He can get access to the facility's and train way Broxi bear then the C%#T.

13 Sep 2026 09:24:41
Some of the takes on here are quite funny.

A contract is a contract. To break it, whatever the reason (even a football transfer), both sides have to agree to the dissolution. And for both sides to want to break it without penalty both have to be incentivised to do so.

Rangers are, by virtue of a transfer fee they accept, happy to break contract. Souttar clearly isn't, presumably due to him being worse off at the end of it by doing so.

He is 100% within his rights to say no, leaving Rangers liable for the remainder of the contract. And in any negotiation he's perfectly entitled to put whatever stipulation he wants to on the table.

In his position I would (and have) do exactly the same and I don't believe there's anyone on here who, if removing the blue tinted spectacles, would willingly walk away from a legally binding contract that would make them and their family worse off just because the counterparty doesn't like the contract anymore.

And if Cavenagh has been as binary as we're told behind the scenes following a fallout related to Tav then he has to accept this was a likely outcome of that stance. Adversarial negotiations always include the party who feels "wronged" pushing for as much as they can possibly get.

The club need to keep emotion out of it.

Either we want him gone and we pay to make it happen, or we don't and we pay more so it doesn't. No point cutting the nose off to spite the face. Take the transfer fee, pay out the contract and move on. If we don't, we pay out the contract anyway, so logically it's a complete no brainer from a maths perspective.

13 Sep 2026 10:46:32
Coops legs the could 100 percent sack him for what he done but if the club have already made a decision they can't just go back and change it now he is wanting a payout it just does not work that way as I say if it's true at the time all involved could of been sacked easily en less they had a clause in there contracts saying that was aloud and I highly doubt that.

13 Sep 2026 11:25:53
I think the word allegedly needs to be used in some of the comments.

Like any contract, you should be paid unless you have broken its terms. So we can't just decide not to pay him.

However, we can decide not to give him a pay off. Either he wants to move for less money or not. Sure we want him to go but AC may be considering more than just money, perhaps it's about management vs player power, it could be that he believes the allegations and doesn't want to reward alleged bad behaviour - we simply don't know. Who knows what the background is but if both dig heels in he will remain here until next summer, train and pick up his wages. If it were me, I'd pay the difference of what he would've earned vs new wage and pay him off and write it off to poor decision making giving him a new contract in the first place. Better for all.

13 Sep 2026 10:42:54
Gdog, he wants his contract payed in full and an extra fee. we should not do this or it sets a standard. we get a fee but the player basically wants it. aye let's do business like that 🙈.

13 Sep 2026 15:27:12
RFC - so we say no and move on, and pay him the full contract anyway.

What we don't do is throw our collective toys out the pram for someone doing what they're entitled to and what everyone on here would do in the same situation unless they have no financial literacy at all.

It's the expectation Souttar just does what he's told that's funny here.

No. He doesn't have to do that and I wouldn't either in his position. He has the leverage here, not the club, if they want rid of him.

13 Sep 2026 16:00:16
I agree about his right to being compensated per the contract GDog, but it seems Souttar also has to consider whether he wants to play football for the 2026/2027 season - or not play at all.

13 Sep 2026 18:53:25
I am maybe being ignorant here, but offer him the cash for 6 month of his deal and take any potential drama or distractions out the club, keep the squad focused.

11 Sep 2026 17:03:44
As I posted a few months ago once the transfer window was closed big changes were coming. Purdys just the start 🇬🇧.

11 Sep 2026 18:54:53
Nice to hear from you again Fourlads 👍🇬🇧.

11 Sep 2026 19:18:29
A few have been saying this for months, a major surprise coming.

11 Sep 2026 19:40:39
Begs the question, if you can share, any idea on what the changes are and the surprise is?

11 Sep 2026 19:57:59
I see Stevie Smith is going back to the U19s.

11 Sep 2026 20:38:04
Surprise coming in?
I know there's talk of a new major investor in discussion with the owners and board.

11 Sep 2026 20:41:41
What's the chance of getting Edu Gaspar from his links to Koppen at Forest now that Marinakas has bumped him having previously done well at Arsenal.

11 Sep 2026 20:59:32
Good info four lads. Been enjoying your posts.

12 Sep 2026 03:13:01
Let's be honest. We will get someone else and he will be gone next season. Technical director is just a revolving door almost as bad as the manager cycle.

12 Sep 2026 01:54:08
So without all the mystique!!

Is it good news or bad news???

At least spill that because this mystery BS is BS otherwise!

12 Sep 2026 07:52:26
As i've posted before on here i personally know Lee McCulloch and his dad John an absolute gentleman may i add and have been in their company a good few times. 👍 Lee and his dad John never give anything away regarding anything to do with Rangers and keep everything close to their chest and are very trustworthy, the way it should be. 👌

I don't mind admitting a few of us have asked lee and his dad John about these continual links that jig has to Rangers and all they say is nothing at all to say on the matter, nothing to tell. 🤔

I've been told more about jig's links to Rangers by other very good sources i trust and i do think that lee will eventually work in a prominent position at Rangers and with dan purdy stepping down, this i feel might well be the position for him. 🤔

I've always said imo i would want either Lee McCulloch or Davie Weir working at Rangers in a prominent position, but i personally didn't think it would be davie weir, as he's eventually earmarked for a prominent position at Chelsea. 🤔 I think jig would be a terrific appointment within our structure i really do but getting blood out of a stone i have a better chance, than getting info from lee or his dad John on this matter. 🤔 Like i said earlier trustworthy they both are, the way it should be 👍🇬🇧.

12 Sep 2026 08:06:21
Interesting insight SWS and your last paragraph was written in the style of Yoda, which adds to the intrigue 😜.

12 Sep 2026 08:59:49
I would like there to be done truth in that Sir W,
A good Rangers man but more importantly someone good at their job.
Just to be clear when I say Rangers man I don't mean someone who bangs the drum and plays the flute, I mean someone who understood and rose to the pressures.

12 Sep 2026 09:04:01
We all dream of a team of a davie weirs.

12 Sep 2026 09:06:20
Can't share major surprise at this stage v

Re India investor, he does not have sufficient funds imo

Gdog no problem. u call it how u see it


A guest ar Chelsea hull today.

12 Sep 2026 09:11:33
I'm don't see mcculloch at this stage having the experience to perform the role off technical director at Rangers

Weir as said will end up at Chelsea, his contract at Strasbourg is till 2031.

12 Sep 2026 09:56:55
I would love Davie Weir in the building again. Strasbourg have been on the up for years now they have some team really well run club.

12 Sep 2026 10:53:09
Davie is as intelligent off the field as he was on it and a class act. That ship has sailed with him taking a position at our club. Jig hmmm I have reservations lol.

12 Sep 2026 11:00:21
Thanks, good info.

12 Sep 2026 12:13:23
Is McCulloch not only a talent acquisition manager with scouting duties at Brighton, would be a big step up would it not? Yes he's aware of the demands, but is he experienced enough for Technical Director? Love Big McCulloch but don't think he'll get the gig.

12 Sep 2026 12:36:57
Definitely don't want Edu Fork, things I've heard makes him unworkable & would end up worse than Thelwell.

As for McCulloch, he's a talent scout & nowhere near experienced to be DoF or Technical Director, would he be as effective as he is without Jamestown. I couldn't care less if he's a Rangers man or not, I want the best possible for the job.

I wonder if the Brentford scout who join might show us who's in line, maybe it's someone from Brentford who imo are just as well ran as Brighton.

12 Sep 2026 13:06:30
Was thinking Edu as he'd done well at Arsenal bud, haven't heard anything untoward tbh, but don't doubt u, agree about McCulloch though, wonder if the Jamestown thing I. D's a player and he's sent to watch, may be way off though, but think your right about not enough experience.

12 Sep 2026 13:07:00
Not sure if we have any ex Ger qualified for the Technical Director role but I do think it would help to get some of them involved in scouting and recruitment. Maybe they would be able to identify guys who aren't just talented but that could cope with playing for Rangers.

Everbody we sign must be talented but so many of them have just shrivelled under the pressure.

12 Sep 2026 13:17:42
I do agree with you DJB, that brentford are a superbly run football club just as brighton are mate 👍🇬🇧.

12 Sep 2026 13:31:41
I'm sure Lee and his dad love being pestered as to whether he will end up at Rangers or not.

12 Sep 2026 14:49:35
I'm sure you will know SirWalterMcCoist 🤪.

12 Sep 2026 15:37:25
SWS what is it about McCulloch that you want him in a high position at Rangers. What skills does he have that warrant or that you have seen?

12 Sep 2026 16:40:29
McCulloch would be fine as a scout, maybe chief scout if the Brentford guy didn't take that role but not DoF or Technical Director.

Edu done fine at Arsenal as a Arsenal fan also but he constantly clashed with Aretata & had a huge ego, done exactly what Thelwell was accused off at Forest & brought players the manager didn't want or work with them hence why there weren't great last season & ended up with multiple managers.

12 Sep 2026 18:14:16
Cheers DJB never knew that bud 👍 👍.

13 Sep 2026 09:11:13
Should have multiple scouts old heads new heads as in ex players not just from Rangers and data guys get all to report or one of each on a player possible get a coach to go and watch him as well then make a decision based on all of the inputs that's what I would do.

13 Sep 2026 23:50:29
Interesting Fourlads . . . It makes me wonder if by the end of this year, if we will all be delighted with the changes, or will we still be waiting for everything to sort itself out? I just hope the changes incoming will be long term, and give us stability.

11 Sep 2026 14:24:03
Any truth in purdy leaving?

11 Sep 2026 15:01:31
Yes, not the only one.

11 Sep 2026 15:26:55
Hopefully the next appointment is the right person for the job and is in the building for a long period of time👍.

11 Sep 2026 15:40:00
John - is Thelwell junior still in the house?

11 Sep 2026 15:58:54
Thelwell soon John?

11 Sep 2026 16:03:28
Can we get that guy Lionel that Ryan Giggs was talking about 🙏.

11 Sep 2026 16:54:17
JK - Lionel Richie? "Is it him your looking for? " 👀😉👍.

11 Sep 2026 18:03:04
Dan Purdy allegedly stepped down on his own accord and allegedly was asked by andrew cavanagh to reconsider but he wasn't prepared to reconsider 😲.

11 Sep 2026 16:53:46
Great news now just need to get rid of the other chuckle brother Thelwell.

11 Sep 2026 19:09:02
FFS He's still at the club, not good enough.

11 Sep 2026 19:56:26
I'm sorry, but I don't get the hype surrounding board members and staff. I'm more concerned about matters on the pitch and backing the team and new manager.
The new manager has been backed financially with the biggest recruitment drive since the Dick Advocaat era.

11 Sep 2026 20:14:47
Wouldn't surprise me coops, we seem to chase a lot of good people out, not saying he's a great guy but we have lost many good people over the years, very very demanding and unforgiving club, been this way since Walter left the first time, appears many fans are raised during the Murray years and have little understanding of the times before, now we get people here who should be valued more but we hate them so much they leave first opportunity, not saying it's always the case tho,

12 Sep 2026 07:55:09
I don't know about you TT11, but i would love big jig mcculloch to be dan purdy's replacement mate 🙏.

12 Sep 2026 13:32:53
Replacing a technical director with a scout? Cool.

11 Sep 2026 14:20:03
Don't know how true but supposedly Bajrami's failed to receive registration for his new loan club. So a year sitting doing nothing?

11 Sep 2026 15:03:30
Seems to be true, I was ready for putting it up on here, Irv, flashed up on the betting site i use, livescore.

11 Sep 2026 15:04:55
Irv, he is off on loan and has played four matches.

The issue appears to surround whety due to foriegn quota if he can play league games.

Not our issue.

11 Sep 2026 15:21:49
It's for their version of the Champions league John, can play league games, so he won't be unavailable for a year like Irv asked.

11 Sep 2026 20:11:12
Cheers for clearing that up 🙏.

12 Sep 2026 04:55:59
He hasn't been registered for their version of the Europa league due to team financial regs. They can change the team around to try get him in but he is registered at that club and has played their last 5 fixtures.

11 Sep 2026 12:20:46
More investment?
Neil Lal has once again mentioned that he has desire to invest in our fantastic club!

The Scottish-Indian businessman is hopeful he can agree a deal with 49ers to invest extra money into the club.
Lal has also been linked with investing in Leicester City during the past few days!
Let's see what happens.

11 Sep 2026 12:53:12
Seen that yesterday.

11 Sep 2026 13:15:08
I've seen that before but I just can't see why Cavenagh and the 49rs would be interested in getting him involved. Its not as if they are needing to invest money that haven't got. More likely to happen if they want out and want to sell their whole stake and I don't think that is likely to happen any time soon.

11 Sep 2026 14:49:59
Some of the reporting claims he's a billionaire but other internet searches state his net worth as £2m, so I think this smells of self seeking publicity stunt.

11 Sep 2026 14:54:55
He's not a billionaire far from it.

11 Sep 2026 16:36:46
Not to worry I'm going to invest heavily when I win the Powerball this weekend.

10 Sep 2026 23:53:30
A table to divulge the fees for Souttar and Mccausland as to their knowledge?

Also any news on Nsiala moving out?

11 Sep 2026 10:24:06
Rumoured fee for Souttar is around £1m.

11 Sep 2026 11:14:34
Cheers mate.

That's not the worst is it?
Mid have hoped for more warlier in the window but here we are so it's fair enough.

11 Sep 2026 10:25:37
Talk of £1.4m for Souttar apparently. Don't know if true or not Stevie.

11 Sep 2026 13:02:10
Great business, considering I thought he was a stick on to walk away for nothing.

11 Sep 2026 13:17:56
The media is reporting that Nsiala has had offers and knocked them all back, don't know if there is any truth in that though. Could McCausland stay now that we are a right winger down until January. He's not a star by any means but he is capable of playing in the SPFL.

11 Sep 2026 14:32:39
Haven't seen anything confirmed yet, but with McCausland and Souttar all the best when they move on.

Both gave their all whilst representing the jersey and Souttar wore the armband with pride.

Once a Ranger, Always a Ranger.

11 Sep 2026 15:37:40
Hi ehl, hope you are doing well,

It's always been my view that Rangers made a massive error in not paying what Hearts wanted for Souttar, a while back, it was mid season. You may remember how well he was doing at the time, and Rangers were very close to a league title challenge, I felt Souttar at that time could well have been the difference between title contenders and chasers again, he was undoubtedly the stand out defender in the league imo,

I have said many times we maybe require more now, but he was perfect then, and he is a very brave player imo, I agree, he deserves more credit, However I know nothing about his departure.

12 Sep 2026 07:45:26
I remember it well TT, similar to Shankland actually in that it was such an obvious move to make at the time.

I really rate Souttar and I'm disappointed in how things have been handled by the club.

I also hate the narrative that's spun on here about him.

Anyways, the show must go on.

12 Sep 2026 10:07:31
I liked big Souttar. Thought he always gave his all, just a pity he never had a consistent and reliable partner in defence during his time here. Things could have been a lot different.