Stubbs: “Allan will cost you £1M”

Hibernian manager Alan Stubbs has
today formally put a price tag of £1,000,000 on the head of marquee midfielder
Scott Allan.

The 23-year old is subject to the
biggest transfer saga in Scotland
this summer, and has handed in a transfer request to the Easter Road outfit to
confirm his desire to switch to Ibrox.

But Hibs have repeatedly peddled
the line that they refuse to sell him to Rangers, and have rejected three bids
from Ibrox, the highest of which scaled around £300,000.

English Championship side
Rotherham pulled out after their bid of £400,000 was rejected out of hand, and
Stubbs has now placed his cards firmly on the table by declaring a seven-figure
sum will be required to wrest the player away from Edinburgh.

This does appear to be a slight
softening of the previous hard line stance of refusing to sell to Rangers,
whereby conceivably if Rangers’ hierarchy did submit a £1M bid, chances are
Hibs would take it.

But fans are unhappy with any
notion of Rangers paying more than around £500,000 for a player in the last
year of his contract and available for nothing on a pre-contract in January.

Whether the short-term loss of
£1M would be offset by the financial rewards that promotion would provide, with
Allan’s help, is another matter.