Glasgow Rangers manager Pedro Caixinha reportedly wants to sign 12 players in the summer transfer window.
Barry Ferguson at Rangers
Barry Ferguson has suggested in The Daily Record a problem Rangers manager Pedro Caixinha could face in trying to move players on.
The former Rangers midfielder has pointed out that players may not be willing to leave Rangers easily in the summer transfer window.
“I read in Record Sport the other day that out of the 25-man squad, 21 of them are under contract for another two or three years,” Ferguson wrote in The Daily Record. “I know how football players think. They won’t be moving anywhere unless it suits them to do so.
“Either they decide they want to move to another club or they’ll sit tight unless Rangers are prepared to pay them up to go.
“Can Rangers afford to give them golden handshakes and send them on their way? It seems obvious to me that they don’t have the money to do that.”
Barry Ferguson
If Rangers manger Caixinha wants to bring in his own players, then first he will have to get rid of many of the current members of the squad.
According to a recent report in The Daily Record, the Portuguese boss wants as many as 12 new players in the summer transfer window.
For Rangers to bring in that many new faces, they will have to sell a lot of the current players, and as Ferguson has highlighted, it is going to be hard.
Rangers, who won promotion from the Scottish Championship at the end of last season, are third in the Scottish Premiership table at the moment with 58 points from 34 matches.
The Gers will return to action on Sunday afternoon when they take on Partick Thistle away from home at the Firhill Stadium in the league.
New Rangers manager Pedro Caixinha
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