Philippe Clement very unhappy at Rangers situation as club now set for another exit

Philippe Clement is not happy with the situation at Rangers that is set to see the club lose Robby McCrorie, according to Chris Jack.

Speaking on the Rangers Review Morning Briefing on 5 June the journalist said that the goalkeeper is now expected to leave after submitting a transfer request in January and rejecting a new contract offer since.

The 26-year-old has a year left on his current deal and the Light Blues have put a £500,000 price tag on him, with Jack suggesting that a “hefty” sell-on clause is likely to be included, but the manager is highly unimpressed that another player is set to leave after seeing his contract run down.

John Lundstram, Ryan Jack, Kemar Roofe and Borna Barisic have all been confirmed as leaving on free transfers as their own deals expire this summer, a year after the likes of Ryan Kent, Alfredo Morelos, Scott Arfield and Filip Helander all went the same way.

Jack said of McCrorie’s presumed exit (5m 30s): “He’s in the final year of his contract. The manager has addressed the situation of the last couple of weeks.

He is unhappy, to put it lightly, that so many people have been allowed to enter the final stage of their deal.

“It’s really a case now of either you use Robby or you lose him, and everything points to Rangers losing him.”

Robby McCrorie set for cut-price Rangers exit

With the exception of Roofe and potentially Jack, whose repeated injury issues arguably made the expiry of their contracts a relief, the number of players who have left for nothing in the past two summers is a concern.

Helander is another who saw injury derail his Ibrox career, while Jack has already been mooted to potentially return on a pay-to-play deal [David Tanner, 1 June].

But Clement was vocal in wanting to keep Lundstram, having previously indicated he would like Barisic to stay [Football Scotland, 3 November], with the pair expected to reunite in Turkey, and clearly doesn’t want to lose McCrorie if a new deal was put forward.

With better management of the transfer market Rangers could have made decent money for all three, plus Morelos and Kent, so it is little wonder that the manager isn’t impressed when he is now attempting to restock the squad with budget constraints.

McCrorie’s expected departure is little surprise at this point, and it was always going to be a difficult juggling act once Jack Butland arrived, thrived, and was likely to be subject to transfer interest in the Premier League.

But the homegrown keeper’s situation was arguably mismanaged prior to Clement’s arrival when Jon McLaughlin got the nod to start the campaign as starter two seasons ago, even if a solid contingency plan has been lined up for his departure.

It is not an exact science to know when to sell and when to re-sign players but Rangers have seen a number of opportunities to bank a return go begging.