Clement admits Rangers can’t keep Vaclav Cerny

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·7 December 2024

Clement admits Rangers can’t keep Vaclav Cerny

Rangers manager Philippe Clement has confirmed Rangers will not be able to keep Czech star Vaclav Cerny at the end of the season unless there is some dramatic change in the club’s financial situation.

After admitting money stopped Abdallah Sima remaining in Govan, it’s the same problem with Cerny, with the £6M-£10M-rated Czechia international, who’s in blistering form at Ibrox now, simply too expensive to keep.

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The club has also admitted that loans are to be reduced as well, less players arriving on that basis at Rangers meaning Cerny’s loan cannot just be extended as a way around keeping the Wolfsburg man.

It’s a sad predicament that Rangers appear destined to lose him:

“We don’t have the money to buy Vaclav for the moment now and we didn’t have the money to buy Abdallah at that moment. But we need to to try every year to have one player less on loan and one player more that’s an asset for the club because we’re going to have a similar situation at the end of the season in that way. Vaclav loves it here clearly, he told me also last week that he never felt better in his career than now physically, mentally, in the team, in the dressing room, with the staff, in the club, with the fans, everything. But of course he has a contract with another club at the end of the season, so that’s negotiations again.”

It’s not ‘negotiations again’ because Rangers can’t afford the attacker – the club wasted a lot of money this summer – the official figure announced as around £13.5M, albeit it was likely closer to £16M, and of course the club only generated a paltry £810,000 in sales, which even Aberdeen and Hearts would look down on.

So Cerny will, like Sima, be here for the one season and then will move onto pastures new when his loan expires.

It is what it is.