Gio admits Rangers contract for Aribo failed

Further to our earlier piece on Kent and Morelos being offered new deals, we alluded to Joe Aribo’s sale.

Giovanni van Bronckhorst has today effectively confirmed the club didn’t offer Aribo a new deal because he wasn’t interested and only wanted the PL.

Speaking again at the club’s camp in the Algarve, the Dutch boss confirmed Aribo’s ambitions of the PL were to test himself at the higher level, and the Nigerian international had no interest whatsoever in signing any new deal at Ibrox, so Rangers didn’t offer one.

Nigerian sources claimed this half a year ago, and we brought it to you, and it turns out they were bang on, and Gio has admitted it.

Not explicitly in words, he never ever does that and never has, but in clever inferring by revealing Aribo’s ambition was the PL and that’s where he wanted to be.

So there was no point offering him new terms, because after initial attempts at negotiating failed, Rangers realised the player was already mentally in the PL.

And that’s about that.