Rangers need to raise transfer funds
The situation will naturally raise some nerves over Sam Lammers’ situation at Rangers.
It is clear the player wants to move on this summer and Rangers are reportedly willing to cut their losses with the hitman.
Lammers was not part of the Rangers squad which has just completed an intensive training camp in the Netherlands.
With Rangers looking to recoup £2.5m from the sale of Lammers, the issue doesn’t appear to be with any potential transfer fee.
Only this week was a leading Dutch journalist branding Sam Lammers’ wage demands as ‘unaffordable’ for Eredivisie sides.
The situation is also complicated by comments made over by Rangers manager Philippe Clement about having to raise funds through sales in order to complete necessary transfer business this summer.
Clement took a loaded barb at the Rangers board by claiming that the stagnant transfer situation was not what he ‘expected’ when he took the job in October.
In essence, Rangers are lumbered with an expensive Dutch forward who doesn’t want to play in Glasgow but is deemed too expensive for the Netherlands.
Rangers are also waiting on the Lammers domino to fall in order to fund part of this summer’s business.
With the striker’s two leading Dutch suitors now out of the picture, Lammers’ future is more uncertain than ever.