The chief football writer for the Daily Telegraph has claimed Rangers convinced Bournemouth to allow Jack Simpson to move to Ibrox early by adding a sell-on clause to the deal.
Bournemouth centre-half Simpson had already signed a pre-contract with the Gers but the club managed to move the transfer forward on deadline day.
The defender, 24, joins alongside fellow pre-contract signing Scott Wright with both moves subject to special negotiations from the Ibrox club.
According to Sam Wallace, the early Simpson deal will include a sell-on clause for his services which means a percentage of any future transfer will go to Bournemouth.
Whilst it doesn’t make clear how high this sell-on clause is, the claim was repeated in the Telegraph’s deadline day transfer blog.
This directly contradicts information supplied by the Press Association who have claimed that the Gers paid a fee to bring Simpson to Ibrox this January.
Repeated in the Lancashire Telegraph, the PA believe “the Light Blues have paid an undisclosed fee to fast-track Simpson’s move from the Cherries”.
That report also claims that the Gers knocked £150k off of Ross McCrorie’s £300k summer transfer fee which Aberdeen still had to pay to sign Scott Wright.
Whatever the case Steven Gerrard is delighted to get both players in the door with both Simpson and Wright signing four-and-a-half year deals with the club.
Here’s more on Jack Simpson’s transfer to Ibrox which was confirmed late last night, with a frozen-out Gers defender moving to the Championship to free up space in the squad.
