Rangers boss Michael Beale has suggest big wages are set to be freed up in the summer, with Swedish defender Filip Helander surely the first to ease the pressure on the Ibrox boardroom.
The Gers have a super inflated squad of crocks who’re on high wages but contributing next-to-nothing to the side. In the case of Filip Helander, it’s quite literally nothing.
The Swedish international, 29, joined Rangers in the summer of 2019 on a reported £3m deal from Serie A side Bologna but his time at Ibrox has been blighted with injury.
Whilst the ex-Malmo star has shown his class when he’s been available, the defender has spent the bulk of his Rangers career on the treatment table and hasn’t played this season.
Michael Beale hints Filip Helander on the way out of Rangers
With the pressure on in the stands, there is quite simply no way Filip Helander can be offered a new deal – even if Michael Beale hinted that Helander’s Ibrox career wasn’t over earlier in the season – and the latest comments suggest he won’t be.
Speaking amid much transfer speculation at Ibrox, Michael Beale claims that Rangers are set to free up high wages this summer with several players out of contract.
“With the salaries that we pay out at the end of the contracts, we certainly have to bring in funds,” said Michael Beale.
“Some are at their third manager in a short time, others have had incredible heights here.
“Maybe they feel like this is the moment to change, or maybe I feel that.
“Do you have the courage for another three years of fighting, pushing and pushing forward?
“People are getting older, aren’t they? So it’s not about whether they’re the right people, it’s whether they have the right energy.”
Whilst the situations with out-of-contract high earners Ryan Kent and Alfredo Morelos is unresolved, there are several senior players such as Ryan Jack, Scott Arfield, Steven Davis and Allan McGregor are also out of contract.
There is a discussion to be had about them all but there is quite simply no discussion to be had about Filip Helander, who is costing Michael Beale and Rangers a reported £14k per week and £730k per year to do, well, to do nothing.
