Giovanni van Bronckhorst has further muddied the waters over Ridvan Yilmaz, John Souttar and Ben Davies (and Helander and Roofe) by refusing to reveal why they’re not part of the first team or indeed where they are.
Yilmaz and Davies, of course, are on the bench on a permanent basis, and Gio refused to clarify exactly why they’re not playing, despite his spending £10M on the high-profile pair, but it gets even murkier.
Davies and Souttar have had rumours surrounding them for weeks – ‘personal reasons’ cited as the reason.
We know Davies’ wife is ill, and we know Souttar has had a bereavement, but Souttar was never officially granted compassionate leave, and Davies wasn’t either.
Now, the reason this matters is assistant coach Roy Makaay WAS granted this, and it was announced the former striker had personal matters to attend to and would be away for a while.
But nothing similar was ever confirmed for Souttar or Davies, which makes us believe it isn’t the case for them.
As for Ridvan, he, like Davies, sits on the bench match after match never playing. It is bizarre, but while previously we suggested he wasn’t ready, well, end of the day it’s still £5.5M of talent wasting away.
Then there’s Filip Helander. Gio says he, like John Souttar, is months away – the manager confirmed neither of them will be available in the coming weeks, so you can instantly discount this and next month, with a slim chance either of them will be available before next year.
The one positive was Kemar Roofe, who there’s some small optimism that he could become available some time before mid-October, but we don’t know for sure.
It’s…. all a bit messy, frankly, and we’ve not even touched on yet another match with so few new signings even starting – just Colak was there, with Matondo not even on the bench.
So, yeah, mysterious, strange and odd. All in one.
As I’ve been banging on for a while now there is something wrong with who’s signing who at Ibrox , why GVB will not play those that had money spent on them ffs . Its upsetting the whole team on and off the field . Souttar ? what’s that about more unrest ffs.
I see vice chairman mr bennet has came out and said the board need to be more transparent with fans ,dont know why the chairman couldnt say that …..
However it is MOST welcome and hopefully they can start by telling us WHO signed the players and why our manager feels he doesnt need to explain why not playing or does not play them …..would be really helpful to the fans and REAL owners as bennet says .
A bit of respect to the people who use their hard earned cash to help fund these players transfers and wages .At the end of the day customers do not get treated like that in any other walk of life .
I watched a match against a honking aberdeen side they outplayed us umar sadique was made the scapegoat who kicked that boy out the door it was pathetic
The same player has been bought recently for 20 million
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