Although Rangers sources insist Muscat wishing to finish the Chinese Super League season presented a stumbling block, the former Rangers defender was not sold on the recruitment model, wanting more control in the market if he joined.
Rangers sources saying the Muscat deal broke down as he wouldn’t leave immediately.
Muscat camp saying he had told them that from start and it was because he didn’t like having no control over recruitment.
Up to you who you choose to believe…
And then, quite appropriately the daddy of them all, hired his son as Head of Recruitment.
There are red card offences in there on their own but collectively that’s a shambles.
List of Thelwell decisions:
Hired and backed Martin
Hired his mate from Everton
Sold all our left-backs and replaced them with a wee lad out of an English academy
Spent 3.5m on a CB who hasn’t made a matchday squad in two months
Spent 8m on a forward who looks rawer than sushi