McCall: “Newcastle four won’t play”
Manager Stuart McCall has
conceded that the Newcastle Five were a ‘farce’ signing and that only Haris
Vuckic is likely to ever significantly play.
The controversial deal in January
which saw the five loanees, Haris Vuckic, Gael Bigirimana, Kevin Mbubu, Remi
Streete & Shane Ferguson sign contracts till the end of the season, was
borderline unheard of in modern football, and Rangers’ new boss admits they are
unlikely to ever feature due to red tape and injury:
“If you take the four lads [January
loan signings] from Newcastle,
who probably won’t kick a ball for us, out of the equation, it’s not as big a
squad as you’d imagine.”
Shane Ferguson’s status remains
unclear in terms of fitness, and he remains stationed in Tyneside to this day,
while injuries to Streete & Bigirmana ruled the former out after his debut
and the latter out from day one, while Mbubu has played in the development
league in recent weeks but shows no obvious sign of playing for the first team.
It is not entirely clear the
precise nature of McCall’s assertion that the four of them will likely not
feature for the Club, but it sums up the farcical running of the Club in the
previous regime’s final days especially.