Palmeiras are apparently splashing out a £6m transfer fee for Ibrox flop Jefte!
News of the deal comes from the most loyal of sources, the Rangers Review who broke news of interest from Chelsea in the same player during the January transfer window.
That story was only at the ‘keeping tabs’ stage, it seems that the newly crowned world champions have lost their tabs with Jefte returning to Brazil after a season of failure for the second best team in Scotland.
The messengers have plenty of form for this sort of coverage, exactly a year ago a major cost cutting exercise was underway at Ibrox to reduce the wage bill.
Sam Lammers, Connor Goldson, Todd Cantwell were all moved on as well as fringe men Scott Wright and Robbie McCrorie.
There were tales of fees of £2-3m per player being put around, in October when the 2024 Annual Report was published the shareholders were in for a surprise.
Accounting for events post year end, 30 June, the report revealed that £810,000 was raised from the sale of five first team members.
Legacy media outlets ignored that inconvenient detail, it was raised at the AGM in December on the assumption that the £810,000 was a typing error from the auditors!
It wasn’t an error. £810,000 was raised from selling five players despite the Fantasy Football fees passed on as factual.
It’s a hefty Jefte profit for Rangers.
The left-back is set to complete a move from Rangers to Palmeiras and sign a long-term contract.
Exclusive update for @RangersReview55 with details of the transfer fee, add-ons and sell-on clause ⤵️https://t.co/radIl5NIxl pic.twitter.com/ZL5OfHilmX
— Chris Jack (@Chris_Jack89) August 15, 2025
The Rangers Review opened with
Rangers will bank a £6million transfer fee when Jefte completes his switch to Palmeiras in the coming days.
Jefte joined last summer for a fee rumoured to be around £900,000, it was probably far less after a season on zero achievements on loan to APOEL in Cyprus from Fluminense where he failed to make a single first team appearance.
In season 23/24 Jefte was involved in 22 matches in the Cypriot League, scoring three goals and creating four assists. Last season at Ibrox he played in 33 out of 38 SPFL matches, scoring one goal and creating four assists.
It is a bang average record which impressed no-one outside of the Ibrox bubble. Jefte is a full-back that is very suspicious defensively and has one goal involvement every 6.5 matches for the second best team in Scotland.
Mind this 🤣https://t.co/KJZ394ttnR
— micheal hill (@michealhill82) August 15, 2025
“Hefty” 😂 pic.twitter.com/6Sg5CbwCTq
— Roger Moose (@RogerMoose4) August 15, 2025
So far efforts this summer to slash the first team squad and wage bill have failed spectacularly while players have steadily been added as part of the Russell Revolution.
Robin Propper was settled up to return to FC Twente with Ross McCausland going to ARIS Limassol on loan for a season. No one else has left.
Ben Davies, Rabbi Matbodo, Clinton Nsiala, Jose Cifuentes and Ridvan Yilmaz have been left out of the UEFA squads, with no playing time it will take a lot of convincing to get another club to pay anything towards their wages.
Kieran Dowell, Nedim Bajrami and Danilo have been involved in the first team through necessity but look certain to see out another season draining the wage bill.
John Souttar, Liam Kelly, Baily Rice and James Tavernier are out of contract at the end of this season.
£30m from Chelsea and they accept £6m from Palmeiras. Mental eh
— CFC 55 (@real55champions) August 15, 2025
That’s a bastard, 30 million from Chelsea too, aw well never mind.
— jbceltic (@jbceltic7604) August 15, 2025
I thought he was going to chelsea
— william colquhoun (@WColquhoun22) August 15, 2025
Undisclosed hefty fee incoming
— bornacelt (@bornacelt) August 15, 2025
More freed up wages for the gazillionaires to spend.
— GreenTic (@Vaulter67) August 15, 2025
Huge profit 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
— Benj Nygren Super Swede 🇸🇪 🍀 (@BenjNeg) August 15, 2025
Getting a whiff of pish here
— yabba (@yabba66375071) August 15, 2025
A fiver would be a hefty profit in their terms
— Mark W (@MarkWel43898329) August 15, 2025
Huge profit to Rangers is about £13
— Gulag (@_Gulag) August 15, 2025
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