Philippe Clement has finally officially confirmed the world’s worst-kept Rangers secret, that Ibrox Noise has been reporting, potentially going back months:

Ianis Hagi will be sold this summer and his Rangers career is over.

The Romanian playmaker, who returned to a Rangers shirt on Monday in a B team friendly, has been pretty clear for the best part of a year that he intended to initially stay in Spain, which later morphed into a general departure from Ibrox to anywhere.

And Clement announced Hagi and his agent had confirmed with Rangers’ boss preseason their position:

“No, we had clear talks before the pre-season with his agents about that. We need to look, like I said, at a lot of things in the club about wages, how many you can have in a position with the budget we have and to get the budget to get transfers. So, it was really clear towards him that the idea was to sell him. That is what we wanted also so that is the clear situation.”

In short, Hagi and his agent confirmed they wanted to move on, Rangers and Clement agreed completely, and that was that.

Hagi is now back in Scotland working on his fitness and his agent is said to be working on a deal with Italian giants Fiorentina but in reality it doesn’t matter where the ex-Genk man goes, Rangers desperately want his £22,000 wages off the bill and Rangers will be thrilled to make back what was paid – around £3M.

Hagi’s terrible season in Spain definitely contributed towards Clement’s disinterest in him, Alaves had absolutely no intention of making the deal permanent after the Romanian failed to shine then completely lost his place with the LaLiga side.

That in itself wasn’t good enough and the manager had no inclinations towards him.

So Hagi, like Todd Cantwell, will leave, as soon as a buyer is found.