It has been a busy summer for the new owners of the Glasgow giants already
Rangers chairman Andrew Cavenagh (left) and vice chairman Paraag Marathe(Image: PA)
Gordon Strachan reckons that 49ers Enterprises should conduct their transfer deals exactly like Celtic.
And Rangers’ new American owners may have already picked up that lesson amid ongoing talks over a sale of Hamza Igamane.
Andrew Cavenagh and the investment wing of the NFL giants took charge of the Scottish Premiership side – with the 49ers doubling up on their ownership of Leeds United.
And former Leeds’ player and Celtic boss Strachan has urged chairman Paraag Marathe and the Elland Road decision-makers to follow Celtic’s player trading model.
Nicolas Kuhn‘s £3million arrival in Glasgow’s east end from Austrian side Rapid Vienna after a nomadic career turbo-charged his career before a £17.2million move to Como is the latest example of the player-trading model in motion.
Discussing Leeds’ chances in the Premier League after promotion, Strachan told OLBG : “Ipswich spent a lot last year and went down, with Leeds there’s no doubt they got in financial difficulties and they had to do a lot of work last year.
“I don’t think Leeds United will put themselves in that position again because if you’re the custodian of the club, the owners, you cannot put the club at risk.
“I think the players that they have got to get cannot be on £300,000 a week. I think that there was a bit of that which happened a couple of years ago and there was definitely worries in the Leeds camp that they might have overstretched themselves.
“They will not overstretch themselves again. So that has to go down to player development.
Gordon Strachan(Image: SNS Group)
“If you look at Celtic, for instance, over the last four, five, six, seven years, they buy players in low, develop them and sell them for six, seven, eight times they come in. I think that’s what’s got to happen with Leeds.”
And the 49ers are currently trying to maximise the profit on Igamane – who arrived at Ibrox in a £1.7m move from AS FAR last summer.
Rangers are standing firm on their £15million valuation of the striker amid ongoing talks with Lille – with the French side now reportedly “struggling” to get a deal over the line.
Everton are among the suitors now showing interest with the door opening – with Udinese and Feyenoord on alert.
Igamane could jolt the new look player-trading model into life – with Maccabi Tel Aviv striker Dor Turgeman understood to be among the contenders to replace the Morocco international.
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