20 MILLION FOR INGAMANE? CELTIC FANS SAY: “HEY, I’LL DO THE JOKES!”

It really is amazing the fervor and almost hysterical levels of enthusiasm with which certain journalists in Scotland answer the call to action whenever Rangers badly need to sell a player.

And like the good little lapdog that he is, The Daily Record’s Gavin Berry answer Rangers’ latest transfer SOS with this piece today.

Asking 20 million for a Player as Unproven as Ingamane is Embarrassing, but Celtic Fans Already Know How this Story Ends

There are more leaps in logic in this Daily Record story today than a poorly written episode of Star Trek.

Remember, this is the same paper that insists Celtic will be “lucky” to get anywhere near 15 million for Nicholas Kuhn, a player who as scored in the Champions League and produced a string of top-level performances, particularly in the first half of last season.

Ingamane scored the winner in the “Moral Victors Derby” and made he’s now a full international on account of his 8 minutes of game time for Morocco.

He’s a decent player, I won’t deny that. And he may well be one of the more valuable assets The £1.49ers have in their squad. However, any club that buys him is buying potential, that’s all.

He could be worth 20 million in a couple of years if he keeps scoring goals and Rangers actually win anything of note. But not now. At the moment, he’s a 5-7 million pound player at best. I know it, you know it and The Rangers know it.

So, just how does this 20 million pound figure come about in The Record’s story today anyway?

Well, apparently, Lille, the club said to be interested in Ingamane paid 25 million for Canadian international Johnathan David (a player currently being courted by the likes of Juventus and Manchester United, and 18 million for Victor Osimhen. So, 20 million for a player as obviously world class as Hamza Igamane is a steal, right?

If you actually believe that, then please get in touch with us here at ACSOM. I’ve got some magic beans and crypto-currency I’d love to sell to you.

Meanwhile, I hope all my fellow Celtic fans appreciate the health risk I'm taking every day by reading this brain-rotting nonsense so you don't have to!

The Daily Record completely glosses over the one big issue that invalidates all of this, and it’s something I actually touched on in my piece about Hearts new investor Tony Bloom yesterday.

French football is skint at the moment. Both of the transfers that the Daily Record cites as examples of the kind of money Lille are willing to spend date from more than 5 years ago, before French Football’s finances imploded amidst the pandemic.

We saw Bordeaux go the same way as Rangers (Requiescat in Pace) last season, and cease to operate. More recently we’ve seen Lyon relegated from Ligue 1 for their own financial crises.

On top of all this, almost every club in France is currently flailing to find new income sources and investors after the League’s TV deal collapsed.

Lille won’t be spending 20 million on anyone this summer. Indeed I doubt any French club apart from PSG will spend anything close to that.

Again, this isn’t rocket science. If a random Celtic blogger with a computer and perhaps a little too much free time on his hands can debunk this in 5 minutes, how the hell did it get past whoever is managing the Record Sports desk these days?

Mainstream Journalism in Scotland is dying, and utter lies and fabrications like this are only expediting its demise.