This is the hope as far as Mark Warburton is concerned.
Joey Barton’s going to have plenty of clubs offering him a contract this summer, Rangers are by no means the only one with Warburton well aware of this as he is we’ll not be able to compete with others financially so if this motivates him we’ll ‘move on.’
Warburton feels, and is hopeful, the Rangers history, our support and future ambition can convince Burnley, and former England international, midfielder Barton to come to Ibrox this summer with the BBC quoting the boss as saying.
‘Joey is a player that will have many, many suitors I’m sure. If we can show what we are as a club – the support, history, stature – and our aspirations and targets then hopefully any player will find that appealing. If they do, hopefully we can conclude business. If not, we move on.’
He’ll look to sell this vision to others, as he has Barton.
Now all we can do is wait for his decision with the 33-year-old someone he’s very keen to come onboard but if this comes down to a financial decision he’ll not sign the contract proposed to him.
‘Our job is to sell the opportunity that Rangers represents. We’re never going to compete with wages down south, that’s an obvious point to highlight. We were delighted to welcome Joey to Glasgow last weekend. He was great company. He’s a very experienced, a very combative and highly intelligent footballer, so we were delighted to talk to him.’
Europa League football will come to Rangers next season if we win the Scottish Cup.
Well, at least we’ll have a qualifiers in the hope of making it into the competition proper if we beat Hibernian with Warburton finishing by admitting this would probably help in securing Barton.
Then again Rangers as a club sells itself!
‘It will help. Rangers are a big club. We’re back in the Premiership, we’ve got four Old Firm games as well as the various fixtures against Aberdeen and Hearts. There is no problem selling it. One look at Ibrox and the training ground shows the size and stature of the club.’
