{"id":675081,"date":"2026-01-05T09:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/675081\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T09:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:07:11","slug":"ex-rangers-coach-denies-any-ibrox-bid-for-his-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/675081\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Rangers coach denies any Ibrox bid for his player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rangersreview.co.uk\/topics\/ibrox-stadium\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ibrox<\/a> club have been linked with a move for the 22-year-old, who has enjoyed a stand-out season in Belgian football.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They have been warned off making a move for former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rangersreview.co.uk\/topics\/heart-of-midlothian-fc\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hearts<\/a> defender James Penrice, with AEK Athens insisting he is too important a player for their title charge in Greece for them to consider selling him.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Charai was assistant manager at Rangers under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rangersreview.co.uk\/news\/24288038.philippe-clement-news-interviews-updates-manager\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philippe Clement<\/a> and remained at the club until this summer before he took charge of Westerlo.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They are currently on a training camp in Turkey during the Belgian winter break and Charai was quizzed about Rangers&#8217; reported interest in Rommens.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said: &#8220;There has been no official bid for Tuur Rommens.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;And our situation at left back has been well documented. We need reinforcements in that position.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;As a manager, you always want more new signings to add to the squad and that is our priority this window.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The hope is to improve the players we already have. We still have ten league matches and then the play-offs to make this a memorable season.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Former Belgium Under 21s skipper Rommens is rated at around \u00a33.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ibrox club have been linked with a move for the 22-year-old, who has enjoyed a stand-out season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-675081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115841705111051281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675081","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=675081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}