Philippe Clement will have money to spend in the January transfer window at Rangers, John Gilligan has confirmed.
Speaking to Sky Sports Scotland on 24 September the interim Ibrox chairman insisted the manager will be backed even if he records more poor results, and that backing will also be financial when the market opens in the New Year.The Belgian was restricted by having to sell in order to buy during a frustrating summer window, but while Gilligan says exits will help they aren’t necessarily a requirement if additions are to be made.
Asked if there would be money to spend he replied: “Yeah, there will be”.
On the sell-to-buy situation he added: “Any manager in any football club, if you can sell and make a profit then it helps towards the buying. It doesn’t depend on it but it certainly adds to it and enhances the whole opportunity of improving, so it’s a bit of both.”It sounds like the situation in the winter market will be much the same as it was in the summer, where the club would probably argue it did make money available.
The problem was it wasn’t anywhere near enough to overhaul the squad entirely, and the timing of it becoming available was later than the manager would have wanted.
