Naismith bid rejected

[ian1964 10,870]

Raman Bhardwaj ‏ @STVRaman Close

It's understood the administrators at RFC rejected a bid from West Brom for Steven Naismith last week.

[GovanAllan 0]

Should think so, hope they told the vultures where to go.

[caseyjones 0]

They couldn't sign him anyway, could they? A bit of Jack Irvine spin, methinks!

[calscot 0]

Could they not sign him but not play him. Seems to me that they could maybe sign him now but register him as a player next season when he's recovered from injury.

 

I could be completely wrong though, just sounds like it could be an option.

[ian1964 10,870]

West Brom in Naismith talks

 

Published on Saturday 7 April 2012 01:42

 

WEST Bromwich Albion have confirmed they have opened talks with Rangers to sign Scotland international forward Steven Naismith.

 

Naismith, 25, looks set to leave Rangers for a cut-price fee this summer following the wage cut that was imposed at Ibrox.

 

Midweek reports indicated that Rangers had turned down a bid for the player, but Albion’s sporting and technical director Dan Ashworth has made contact with the club to try and lay the groundwork for a deal and the English club’s manager Roy Hodgson said: “I know that Dan and I have talked about it. Dan has been in contact with Glasgow Rangers but to what extent a bid has been made, I don’t know, or what bid has been made I don’t know.

 

“But, yes, Steven Naismith is a player who, when he accepted to reduce his wages, it was fairly obvious Glasgow Rangers might not be able to keep and as a result we are entitled to make an inquiry.”

 

Naismith, who signed for Rangers from Kilmarnock in 2007 and is under contract at Ibrox until 2015, has been sidelined since suffering knee ligament damage in October and will not play again this season.

 

After scoring 16 goals in season 2010/11, Naismith had already found the net ten times this season before injury struck.

 

http://www.scotsman.com/news/west-brom-in-naismith-talks-1-2222092