Rangers the victim of a £10M Premier League scam | OneFootball

Five seasons in football, seven goals. His last in late 2023. Zero goals in football since that strike (v Mansfield). Rangers scammed for £10M.

Rangers demanded someone hold their drink so our club could invest £10M in Youssef Chermiti.

In zero league goals in the UK, in 7 goals in senior football.

Lammers

Sam Lammers, remember him, came to Rangers better off – 9 goals in the prior half decade. And he was a £4M waste of money as well.

Chermiti is an example of a good relationship between an employee and a company, when that employee gets a new job and wants to repay that previous employer.

Rangers were the victim of absolute corporate espionage here, with £10M chucked at Everton on a completely unwanted player who had absolutely no business being in the Premier League far less at Ibrox.

Price

But here we are, Thelwell threw the money at this high-cost flop and now Rangers are paying the price.

In Thelwell’s head he probably convinced himself he was getting a great player for Rangers, but the reality is different.

And the reality is worse than just numbers. This is a signing that exposes the soft underbelly of the board and their recruitment strategy. It is a case study in how not to spend. Chermiti’s record speaks volumes, yet somehow that warning was ignored and the cash was thrown at him regardless.

Supporters are left looking at the balance sheet and wondering how on earth we ended up here. We needed a goalscorer, a leader of the line, someone to take games by the throat. Instead we got another passenger, another expensive mistake who is already making Lammers look like value for money.

Laugh

Every major club in Europe would laugh at a striker with seven goals in five years commanding a £10M fee. Rangers didn’t just bite, they swallowed the hook whole. Everton must have been rubbing their hands with delight as they waved him off, banking a sum they could scarcely believe. Rangers scammed for £10M.

Now we are the ones stuck with him, the ones watching as chances pass him by, the ones realising that yet again, money has been burned without thought or logic. This isn’t just about Chermiti, it’s about a wider failure at the very heart of the club. Until Rangers learn from this, until Rangers stop gambling millions on players with no pedigree, the cycle will never end.