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Originally Posted by carpon
Absolute rubbish..... 
With the exception of Davis (for whom I can't seem to find any info on Wiki) the other four players became free agents after your club went into liquidation, when all four chose not to join your "new club" and drop to the fourth tier of Scottish football. Their contracts with the "old" Rangers became defunct when your club went into liquidation. Hence they went where they did under totally different circumstances.
I've also trawled through pages of posts on Rangers forums.....from gloating Rangers fans.....quite happy with the fact that your club has turned us over. A lot of those posts show your "fans" in a true light.
Arrogant.
I also read with interest that Rangers have already supposedly inserted a "£3.5million release clause" into Windass' future contract.
Not bad business for a player you're getting on the cheap !!
There was not a lot Stanley could do after the players agent "pimped" them around. From that moment, the two players were never going to sign another contract at Stanley. 
Stanley can't afford the wages that not only Rangers, but any bigger club could offer. We were already in a no win situation that meant we were going to lose both players for a pittance.
The decent thing to do as a club, would have been to ask for permission to speak to the players. Permission that no doubt would have been granted, albeit reluctantly. 
Not send an e-mail to the club secretary telling him / her that you would be speaking to the players.
But your club went behind our Chairman's, owner's and manager's backs to sign the pair up on a loophole on the cheap. At a critical point in our season where promotion to the next level is an achievable goal.
This situation has the potential to not only ruin our season, but leave us extremely out of pocket in the long run.
No decent compensation for two promising players given a second chance by a club that needs to make money by unearthing such "gems" and selling them on at a profit. A club that has to live within it's means and try and survive on 1500 gates in the shadow of two more illustrious and better supported neighbours.
No potential sell on clauses benefiting A.S.F.C. should Rangers sell one or both on at a massive profit for Glasgow Rangers.
So I stand by my conviction that your club has no class when it came to dealing with these two signing for you.
Your club has exploited both the rules and our predicament without even having the decency of asking for permission to shaft us. |
Another gers fan (in disbelief)
All of the players mentioned that left us for free had been tupped over to the new company, contracts were bought and the rest of the team stayed and played or seeked transfers.
Anyway why is nothing bad until we do it?english clubs have been exploiting the low cross border compensation fee for years but when we do it its "classless"
My Honest opinion is that the fans and staff of AS are just bitter. Bitter because you are a small club flying high this year and losing 2 good players in the team for next to nothing is a kick in the nasties.
We can't be blamed for FIFAs rules and the way we went about it was modern etiquette. We don't need permission to speak to your players, Bosman made sure if that. We have players out of contract in the summer and a few English clubs are sniffing about
We're Bayern classless when they signed lewandowski on a Bosman? Ballack, pirlo, babbel and Hebron larrson all left on Bosnians so why are we being demonised?
THE BOSMAN RULING
This is an an EU ruling that allows out-of-contract footballers to leave their clubs without them receiving a transfer fee.
It is named after Belgian striker Jean-Marc Bosman, who took his club, RC Liege, to court over his desire to move to Dunkerque against his employers' wishes.
In 1995, the European Court of Justice banned restrictions on foreign EU players within national leagues and allowed players in the EU to move to another club at the end of a contract without a transfer fee being paid.