{"id":348734,"date":"2025-08-16T08:52:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T08:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/348734\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T08:52:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T08:52:16","slug":"djeidi-gassama-to-rangers-transfer-was-under-value-as-ligue-1-club-pounce-on-sheffield-wednesday-confusion-ibrox-news-bulletin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/348734\/","title":{"rendered":"Djeidi Gassama to Rangers transfer was ‘under value’ as Ligue 1 club pounce on Sheffield Wednesday confusion \u2013 Ibrox news bulletin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Hillsborough assistant Chris Powell reckons Gassama would have cost much more under normal circumstancesDjeidi Gassama of Rangers takes on Lukas Cerv of Viktoria Plzen<\/p>\n

Former Sheffield Wednesday coach Chris Powell insists Rangers<\/a> got Djeidi Gassama for an absolute song thanks to the Owls’ financial plight.<\/p>\n

Gassama<\/a> made the move from Hillsborough to Ibrox this summer for just \u00a32.2million. And he’s already made a massive contribution which could see that fee repaid almost 20 times over.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old has hit key goals in both of Gers’ Champions League qualifiers so far against Panathinaikos and Viktoria Plzen respectively<\/a>. Only Club Brugge stand between them and the league phase of the competition, which brings \u00a340 million in prize money.<\/p>\n

Wednesday are i the grip of a financial crisis with fans desperate for owner Dejphon Chansiri to sell up and relieve the pressure.<\/p>\n

Players are being sold to pay the wages and as a result, Powell reckons Gassama went for much, much less than he would have under normal circumstances.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey’ve sold a couple of players, under value,” he told the No Tippy Tappy Football podcast.<\/a> “Definitely a young boy has gone to Rangers, Gassama, exceptional player, sold to pay the wages. Another player went.<\/p>\n

“There’s the young goalkeeper, Pierce Charles (also linked with Rangers), I think he is another asset who might go. They’ve had money from the Premier League, their share. So they’ve been able to just settle a few debts. But if it’s not sold and he’s not funding it, how do you carry on?”<\/p>\n

\"PiercePierce Charles in action for Sheffield Wednesday(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

As for Charles, the Telegraph claims Rangers and West Ham<\/a> walked away from a deal.<\/p>\n

The Ibrox club reportedly launched a \u00a31million bid along with the Hammers, but bafflingly neither received a response so have moved on.<\/p>\n

And that could leave the path clear for Strasbourg, who are interested in doing a deal for the Northern Ireland international.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Robbie Fraser has opened up on his Ibrox exit.<\/p>\n

The defender has joined Neil Lennon’s Dunfermline on a three-year deal after spending 16 years with Rangers.<\/p>\n

But he admitted a taste of first team football out on loan at Livingston made him want it every week rather than filling out Russell Martin’s squad.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIt\u2019s not easy leaving somewhere you\u2019ve been for so long. Being there that long, it was my home for 16 years. That\u2019s a long, long time but I\u2019m at a stage in my career where I\u2019ve come out of that younger phase. I want to come out and get games, I want to show that I\u2019m more than capable of holding my own.<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting that little taster for six months, it\u2019s made me real enthusiastic to come out and show who I am and what I can be. I\u2019m at a great place now. Great club, great people in it. Glad to meet some of them so far and I can\u2019t wait to get on with the boys now and train on the pitch.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Hillsborough assistant Chris Powell reckons Gassama would have cost much more under normal circumstancesDjeidi Gassama of Rangers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,1614,77686,123460,393,12901,4884,48725,1946,37715,28104,18714,1638,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-348734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-champions-league","10":"tag-djeidi-gassama","11":"tag-dunfermline-athletic-fc","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-english-football-league","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-neil-lennon","16":"tag-rangers-fc","17":"tag-rangers-fc-transfer-news","18":"tag-russell-martin","19":"tag-scottish-championship","20":"tag-scottish-premiership","21":"tag-sheffield","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115037598192563659","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}