Big-money Rangers players are being ignored by Scottish press | OneFootball

Rangers really need to get the press onside again, with evidence over the past 24 hours of how the media just don’t promote anything Ibrox and are instead bigging up stuff from the opposite side of the city.

We saw recently some social media promoting Celtic’s Kuhn guy, claiming his performances this season merit his apparent value of approaching £10M.

We don’t know much about Celtic these days, they’re not our team and we’re just not that interested, but we are interested in Rangers and how valuable our players are.

As we expressed in a recent entry, Rangers no longer have a single valuable asset player, with only Nico Raskin rated around £5M by transfermarkt. He’s being described as our most valuable player now, and that a £5M player is our marquee star really is rather abysmal.

One might think it was Butland, but Nottingham’s £5M bid for him last season, rejected, now seems like good money given how rotten he is these days. Nowhere near the £25M Clement got him in the press for last season.

But the media are a part of this. There is never any promotion of our players in the press, on social media, about how good or important any of them are, even those who are legitimately shining for the club these days, such as Vaclav Cerny (albeit he’s on loan) and Connor Barron.

The press don’t actively promote these guys as big-money players, and that means their value is affected – whereas Celtic find this stuff effortless.

We don’t know if this Kuhn guy is actually any good, we’ll assume he probably is, but some of Rangers’ players are actually shining too (admittedly not many) and they’re never being promoted as worth money.

It doesn’t matter what their ‘technical’ value might actually be, Rangers need influence in the press to help promote our players as big money assets.

It happened during and after 55, when the positive press around Patterson, Aribo and Bassey helped to get big money for their sales. Other players also attracted big money bids, like Ryan Kent and Alfredo Morelos, because they were being pushed in the press as £10M or £20M players.

But now?

It’s all about the toxicity of the club, Clement, the board, disenfranchised fans…

Rangers have lost a tonne of press influence the past couple of years, and it’s indirectly affecting the club’s revenue.

We’re not selling our best players for the big money at all, even Aberdeen can do that – but not us.

This is one of many things that needs to change.