Mystery over Birmingham’s late bid for Rangers’ Connor Goldson | OneFootball

While we know Connor Goldson is to leave Rangers, his trip to Cyprus may have been a mere ‘sounding out’ of Aris Limassol, despite undergoing a medical, because it’s understood Birmingham City definitely want him regardless of his wages being fundamentally too high for the League One side.

Manager Philippe Clement confirmed Goldson was in talks with a club who had made a ‘concrete’ offer, but followed up by stating it wasn’t a club far away at all and was in fact closer to home.

This may further explain why Goldson actually went to Birmingham with the squad at all – saying potential goodbyes while he checked City out as Rangers were indeed losing to them.

Indeed, the big twist is this friendly may have been a smokescreen for Goldson’s transfer to St Andrews this summer, because Clement hinting it wasn’t far away could have been quite literal – it was at the same stadium!

He absolutely did travel to Cyprus and took the sights in, while purportedly undergoing a medical, but didn’t sign the paperwork, instead leaving his options open.

The Birmingham interest is bizarre – as a now League One club their wage structure has taken a big hit – they can no longer pay the £20,000 they could in the Championship, and have to have more fiscal responsibility in their wages.

Goldson is on £38,000pw so how the League One side would manage that we’ve no idea.

Perhaps they are able to afford it based on accumulation in some way, but even last season they didn’t spend more than about £20K.

So that one is odd.

Aris? They can afford him.

All we truly know is he’s working on a move out, likely to one of these clubs, and he is 99% never playing for Rangers again.