During the close season the Daily Record published a story that Jack Butland was about to take Tav’s cherished Captain’s Armband, that story was quickly watered down but the damage was done.
Trabzonspor recently signed Borna Barisic and John Lundstram, clearly the agent involved in those deals has informed the Turkish club about the financial distress at Ibrox.
Now way past their prime the Record is pinning their hopes for the Clement Revolution! on selling two thirty plus journeymen that have consistently finished second in a two horse race.
The Record was prompted into two rewrites within 75 minutes, they deleted their tweets then settled down with Butland becoming skipper only if Captain Disappointed is on the move.
With two years left on a four year deal signed after losing in the final of the Europa League to Eintracht Frankfurt Tavpen can sit tight on his contract creating a further problem for Clement.
Included is a very rare clip of winning a tackle against Daizen Maeda at Hampden- if anything sums up the losers mentality it is the inclusion of that moment as a highlight.
Similarly Todd Cantwell was available for £1m from Norwich in January 2023, no English club wanted to know but Micky Beale looked him in the eyes and decided to build his Revolution around the celebrity C-lister.
Have a renaissance for a few months, get a result or two and then when it really matters they s**t the bed all over the place. They done it to Gio, they done it to Beale and if you are paying really close attention they have done it to Clement…
Yesterday as the club captain chased further scoring records Ross County scored three times, twice exploiting the gaps down the left hand side with Tavernier out of sight as the deliveries went in leading to goals number two and three.
Rumours linking the 32-year-old Englishman with a big money move to the Middle East have never fully gone away since surfacing last summer and if Tavernier already has one eye on cashing it all in in Saudi Arabia – or anywhere else for that matter – then he’s the wrong…