The surprising news that has emerged about the five young Newcastle players sent to Rangers on loan at the end of the January transfer window, did not have any medicals.
Gael Bigirimana – has a mysterious but serious illness
Rangers at the time were being run by Derek LLambias, a Mike Ashley close confidante, who ran Newcastle for five years from May, 2008, and it was all arranged and seemed to happen very quickly.
And since then three Newcastle players Shane Ferguson, Kevin Mbabu and Gael Bigirimana have been out injured – or to be more exact Gael has a mystery illness which is keeping him from playing.
Gael is only 21 and had a great first season at Newcastle after he signed for Newcastle in the summer of 2012 for £1M from Coventry, and he played 25 times with one in our Europa League season.
At the time he looked like a future star, but since that 2012-2013 season Gael has been out in the cold and only played one more game for the Newcastle first team.
And the news yesterday in the Daily Record was that Gael knew he had the illness before he signed and the deal is costing Rangers £5K/week.
There are questions about did the Rangers Board knew three of the Newcastle players were incapacitated when they signed on for Rangers?
Only Haris Vuckic is playing regularly for the former Scottish giants, with Remie Streete picking up an injury in his first 45 minutes playing for the Scottish club.
The fans and the press are asking for an explanation of exactly what happened, that had the five players signed on the last day of the transfer with no medicals arranged and now Rangers shelling out £5K/week for very little.
In today football world £5K/week isn’t much, but it is when you are having to borrow money to survive and pay out the players’ wages every week, which is the case at the cash strapped Scottish club.
Gael is a smashing lad and always gives 100%, so it’s a pity the youngster is at the center of all this controversy,
And this does not reflect well on Mike Ashley, the Newcastle owner, who is also coming under pressure at Newcastle because the club have been left short of senior player,s with only 15 available at the moment, and the club on another poor run of results, having lost four of our last fives matches.
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8 comments so far
Jail for Ashley
Mar 27, 2015 at 7:22 AM
Comment #1I hope they are exposed for everything they are.
Transfer Sage
Mar 27, 2015 at 7:23 AM
Comment #2This is not a shock at all, it was all done at a time when Ashley was fighting to gain a strong influence, plenty will have been done wrong knowing Ashley.
But you also need to consider that the new men in charge will want to distance themselves as much as possible from Ashley and will gain fan support for putting him down.
We know how he operates, we’ve seen it first hand, it’s far from ideal, but you have to also question the motives of those currently there.
geordie157
Mar 27, 2015 at 7:30 AM
Comment #3The rangers five have one thing in common they are all injury prone. Shame as there was a lot of potential there, think all five will move on this summer.
optimistic prime
Mar 27, 2015 at 7:32 AM
Comment #4When Ashley leaves I hope he takes all the pathetic apathetic fans with him.
Jail for Ashley
Mar 27, 2015 at 7:37 AM
Comment #5G157,
Not sure if Bigi is/was injury prone, I think it’s more contractual with him, they’ve wanted to tie him down after that good first season but not on his terms and he’s been frozen out.
optimistic prime
Mar 27, 2015 at 7:38 AM
Comment #6Toon barmy
Good article, off the top of my head without looking I think Tiote and Cisses contracts are also up next year.
optimistic prime
Mar 27, 2015 at 7:48 AM
Comment #7http://www.themag.co.uk/2015/03/newcastle-united-lose-battle-not-to-pay-living-wage-to-staff/
The overrated Frenchman
Mar 27, 2015 at 9:06 AM
Comment #8Well I just don’t think you can underestimate how low Mike Ashley will go in any of his business dealings, including those involving football clubs. He is clearly an individual devoid of morality and normal human decency. Stitching Rangers up and using vulnerable young men as pawns would be just another day at the office for Mike.