In or out? Full list of players joining or refusing move to 'Rangers newco'

Allan McGregor is one of nine Rangers players who will not allow their contracts to move over to Charles Green's new company.©SNS Group

Barred from playing SPL football and with a place in any league uncertain, a number of Rangers players are refusing to have their contracts moved from the old company to Charles Green's newco.

Nine have already said they will be using their right under TUPE regulations to terminate their contracts, allowing them to move to another team.

Some though have stated their loyalty regardless, with others yet to declare their position.

Those wishing to work for Green's company are expected to return to pre-season training at Murray Park on Thursday.

This list will be updated as and when any announcements are made on the futures of players.

Refusing to move

Sone Aluko
Steven Davis
John Fleck
Kyle Lafferty
Rhys McCabe
Allan McGregor
Steven Naismith
Jamie Ness
Steven Whittaker

Leaving the club

Juan Manuel Ortiz

Moving to newco

Chris Hegarty
Kyle Hutton
Lee McCulloch
Andy Mitchell
Ross Perry
Lee Wallace
Andrew Little

Returned to training

Neil Alexander
Alejandro Bedoya
Kirk Broadfoot
Darren Cole
Scott Gallacher
Kane Hemmings
Kal Naismith
Carlos Bocanegra
Maurice Edu
Dorin Goian

Out of contract

David Healy
Salim Kerkar

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Unless I'm mistaken, wasn't Sone Aluko out of contract anyway?

"Those wishing to stay at the club"

The club they played for is gone, they don't have one to stay at.

Declan Murphy 27/06/2012 Report this place

Aluko was out of Contract. Its also missing players like Grant Adam, Scott Gallacher, Saša Papac, Chris Hegarty and Gordon Dick who are also out of contract.

Radio 27/06/2012 Report this place

Grant Adam?

Wasn't he in the papers recently for something?

Declan Murphy 28/06/2012 Report this place

So thats 22 players still part of the team plenty for a wee squad game eh?

The Ref 28/06/2012 Report this place

How many youngsters have Rangers out on loan to other clubs.................I know of one but are there a few.

robm 28/06/2012 Report this place

Declan,

1. You have far too much time on your hands... Get a grip (or a job).
2. Why are you so concerned with Rangers when your own excuse of a club has some important fixtures in the Champions League upcoming?
3. You keep stating that "the club is gone"... No, the club is still here, it's arrogance to think it's dead when it's not and you're plainly very uneducated.
4. Leeds went 'Newco' in 2007 and they're the same club as they've always been with the same history behind them.
5. Sone Aluko had a two-year option by the club on his six-month contract when it was signed, so technically his contract never expired. If it did expire then he would have had no reason to publicly object to the 'Newco' and just moved on, like Sasa Papac did, wouldn't have he?
6. For the groups of C*ltic fans who plan to boycott any club who votes 'Yes' to a 'Newco', what happens if C*ltic themselves vote 'Yes'? Are they going to boycott their OWN club (like they did during Tony Mowbray's reign) and leave them penniless? Faithful through and through? Aye right.

Loyal_William 29/06/2012 Report this place

@Loyal_William

1. Is there some reason why you feel the need to attack the messenger, and not the message?

2. Why would I be concerned with a club which no longer exists? This is about a brand new club, just over two weeks old, not being subject to the same rules which every other club in Scotland is. even worse, the gerrymandering going on is not only supported by the SFA, SPL, and SFL, it is actually of their own doing!

3. The shares are liquidated, the club is gone, end of.

4. Leeds were never liquidated.

5. Any contract he had would have been with a club which now no longer exists. With that, his contract went as well.

6. Why are you talking about Celtic? What relevance have they to this?

Declan Murphy 29/06/2012 Report this place

When my wife heard i was taking yoga classes she said "i just know this has something to do with your sexually perverted fantasies"

I was so taken aback by her accusation.....i nearly choked on my cock.

kaspar_hauser 29/06/2012 Report this place

pointless trying to reason with Declan Murphy given he doesn't accept that the club remains but the corporation doesn't - he's a Pacific Shelf denier.

As well as previously pointed out, Salim Kerkar is currently out of contract as well, thus while he's returned to training would be free to accept offers elsewhere too.

bluenoseam 02/07/2012 Report this place

THE Rangers Football Club 2012 has now been born and awaits acceptance of its bid to not only join the SFA but also the SPL. June 2012 is the formation date of the newco and it currently holds no titles and no honours. Fans of THE Rangers Football Club can no longer claim to follow the world’s most successful club. The 54 championship titles, 33 Scottish Cups, 27 League Cups and the European Cup Winner’s Cup are not the property of THE Rangers Football Club 2012, despite what Duff & Phelps, Charles Green and Ally McCoist peddle to the press, they belong to the now defunct Rangers Football Club 1872.

Former Rangers player Alex Rae commented this week in a column in the Daily Record, and is very apt: “We can now say that 140 years of history have effectively come to an end.”

jockyspants 02/07/2012 Report this place

STV: The site which actively permits racism.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Astv.tv+%22plastic+paddy%22

Absolutely disgraceful.

Declan Murphy 03/07/2012 Report this place

@bluenoseam

I've pointed this out to you before.

A club is a company.

I've even pointed you to where it confirms it on the website of the now defunct club.

http://www.rangers.co.uk/clubHistory/article/2495830

It says quite clearly

"as Rangers formally became a business company"

This is now, what, the second, third time I've pointed this out to you?

The club became the company.

Is this clear to you? Are there any words in that sentence you don't know the meaning of? Do you still want to deny that Rangers FC were the company which was liquidated?

Declan Murphy 03/07/2012 Report this place

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