Derek McInnes

[Del-icious]

You don’t put a clause in their three year contract that they are free agent after a year FFS.

Don’t sugarcoat this for a second - this contract is weird as fuck and Del will have been involved in it. 24 hours ago we were all fine saying Del was instrumental in getting Shankland to sign but now he’s not involved in it other than saying nice things?

It’s fine - he is a massive hun that wants to be the Rangers manager so isn’t going to stand in the way of massive hun who wants to the be the Rangers striker. He knows full well that dangling that carrot would have got it over the line. He will have thought it was worth the risk.

The fault is on the ones above him that should have been clear that it absolutely wasn’t happening.

If the option was to take this pish contract or lose him for free last season you’d have taken the latter?

I can’t see how it would’ve played out any other way or what other options we would’ve had, Del was very open about how desperate he was to keep him so the ball was very much in Shanks’ court. He had left hearts at the time he renewed so he wasn’t bluffing, he was properly already out the door before coming back.