Propper emerged as Clement’s most wanted man in the wake of Connor Goldson completing his move to Aris Limassol over the weekend. And that sparked the Ibrox board into a raid on the same Eredivisie outfit they punted Sam Lammers to one week earlier in a deal worth around £2.7m.

But any prospect of a permanent deal has collapsed after Lammers made it clear he is not prepared to accept less in wages than he’s raking in on his current bumper Ibrox contract – which still has three more years left to run.