There’s a little something else that Lawrence Shankland has achieved with his long-awaited move to Rangers as Shankland Rangers wage revealed.
Obviously the boy has his dream now of becoming a Rangers player, better late than never. It’s what he has wanted forever, and Rangers fans are equally thrilled.
But there’s a gigantic bonus here.
Not only does he go to the world cup with Scotland this summer, in a showpiece occasion that is the very zenith for any footballer, but there’s one more little tiny matter:
Lawrence Shankland FINALLY earns the age his talent deserves.
Shankland was on £3,000pw up till his summer 2025 extension. In fairness, that itself was the highest he’d been at. He managed to over double that to around £7,000 but that was absolutely killing Hearts even if Tony Bloom isn’t exactly short of a bob or two.
But in reality, this is a £25,000pw player, and we understand that is around the salary he now gets at Ibrox.
He’s gone from £3,000pw to £25,000pw over the course of one year.
Waited
And he has waited and waited for his talent, for his goals, for his quality to finally be rewarded with a salary in keeping with it.
The amount of salary he has lost over the past 5 years by being on a modest wage is many, many millions. Yes, really. A £20Kpw player is about a million a year. That’s £5M the past 5 years, of which he only got barely one.
He’s had to sacrifice, to wait, to get the move he’s wanted the whole time. And not only that he gets the salary he has waited for as well.
It’s not like he was going to be homeless on £7,000pw. But for his abilities that really was peanuts.
Now he’s got a £25,000pw salary and playing for the team of his dreams. Shankland Rangers wage revealed and what an improvement.
It’s all come to together for Lawrence Shankland.