Philippe Clement said Rangers would need to see sales before they could buy this summer.
Only we reckon the Belgian manager was referring to players leaving his own camp and not the Premier League.
But in a tight transfer window, Rangers will take everything they can get as football’s trickle down economics hands the Gers a timely boost in the market.
And as one ex-Rangers star makes a switch to the continent, Philippe Clement is in line to receive a six-to-seven figure boost to the club’s dusty transfer coffers.
Kamara heads to France
When Rangers sold Glen Kamara to Leeds United last summer, it was a deal tinged with frustration.
The Finnish international, who is now 28, was a key player in the Steven Gerrard era and had endured a downturn in form in his final season in Glasgow.
A technically gifted midfielder with superb ball recovery skills, Kamara was almost certainly a player too talented and too intelligent for the game north of the border.
So when a £5m deal to bring Kamara to Leeds was struck, plenty were happy to see the midfielder go.
But given Rangers saw a £10m deal to OGC Nice collapse just a year earlier, it was half the amount that we perhaps should’ve secured for the player’s services.
Now, Glen Kamara has earned that move to France after all, signing a deal to join Stade Rennais after only one year at Elland Road.
Rangers too stand to benefit from the transfer due to clauses inserted into the deal which brought Kamara to Leeds.
Rangers to receive cash boost
As explained by the Athletic, the deal to bring Glen Kamara to France is believed to be worth ‘double’ the £5m Leeds paid Rangers last summer.
That means the Elland Road are raking in around £10m for Kamara with the Daily Record suggesting that Rangers boast a 10% sell on from any transfer fee.
Whilst the specific details of the Rangers clause are unknown – whether it is 10% of the entire fee or 10% of any profit – the Gers are set to rake in a pretty penny from the sale.
Ranging from £500k to £1m, it will represent a welcome boost to Philippe Clement and Nils Koppen as they try to rebuild the Rangers squad this summer.
