Rangers must shift expensive Beale misfit off the wage bill pronto | OneFootball

As mentioned earlier, Rangers are most certainly on the lookout for a new striker. If the condition can be met of shipping at least one, preferably two, off the current roster, that is. Sources confirm Rangers seek a new striker but there’s a catch. Danilo is a prime candidate.

Danilo’s Wages Are the Real Problem

However, one of the biggest problems on Rangers’ roster isn’t in actual fact Chermiti, it is Danilo. While Youssef Chermiti cost a fortune and will be hard to shift at this moment in time as well. He is of a young enough age that he could go out on loan. He hasn’t shone at Rangers regardless of what he did at Parkhead, and he’s been a poor signing. Not a good use of £10M plus. One Rangers player has cost/lost the club a staggering £11M – and it isn’t Chermiti

However, the real big issue is not him, it is his Brazilian teammate Danilo. The former Feyenoord striker’s wages are a gigantic problem at Ibrox. He is currently on a wage of around £40,000 per week. This is around about the highest ever wage for any player at Ibrox ever. The forward is going to be a big problem to get off that wage bill. Rangers striker options fall badly short at a wasted £25M

No Way Out Without a Massive Payoff

No one will take him on loan unless Rangers part-pay those salaries. Rangers are not even going to be able to loan him out to a club with any big coffers. The simple fact is, his wages are too high for what they are getting. As we said earlier, 25 goals and assists in barely 80 matches is an absolutely abhorrent return. Especially for the £11M we have spent on him. Rangers open to offers for Danilo in January

£11M to clarify, includes fee and wages since 2023, the year he was signed. Consequently, he is the big problem. We’ve discussed this before and it did create a lot of angst at the time. Danilo is costing far too much. He really should be a mutual consent, but he is unlikely to agree to that. NewsNow: Danilo headlines

Danilo Symbolises Failed Spending

The fact is, Rangers have had 80 appearances from this guy in over two and a half years. Two and a half years since summer 2023. He has been out injured far too many times. And in that whole period to have only scored 25 goals and assists is an utterly mediocre return.

Danilo is an absolutely gigantic symptom of Rangers’ historically poor spending. Essentially, he was a crime committed by Michael Beale. Beale did complain at the time that he didn’t have a director of football to help him negotiate deals. Clearly the manager then offered far, far, far too much to the Brazilian striker to make him come from Feyenoord. Rangers sign £12M winger Andreas Skov Olsen

£40,000 a week, give or take, is an absolutely appalling waste of resources, and it’s a drain on Rangers’ coffers. So getting rid of him is a huge problem for Rangers. He isn’t offering anywhere near on the pitch what his wages would demand or would expect. Plus he isn’t going to go on loan, as we say, unless Rangers are willing to foot up some of the wage.

Mutual Consent

The best outcome, as we’ve often mentioned, would be mutual consent. But that would mean paying off the rest of his contract, and that’s millions. So Rangers are stuck, as far as he goes, unless a miracle can be found.

Equally, there’s the issue of Chermiti and Miovski. They are not as big a problem to ship out. But the problem remains that Danilo will still be on the wage, on the payroll, and consequently not producing the contribution enough to justify that.

So while Rangers are very much on the lookout for a new striker. But it requires getting rid of at least one or two of the existing strikers to make it practical. It is very unlikely that that striker can be Danilo. As much as we want to cut him loose doing so is tantamount to impossible. We can blame Michael Beale for that one.