Forest Green Rovers chairman Dale Vince has launched a bizarre barb at Rangers after insisting they spent nowhere near £350,000 on Ibrox midfielder Charlie McCann – even though the Ibrox club didn’t claim anything of the sort.
The Northern Ireland star clinched a move to the English League One strugglers last week only for the club to sack manager Ian Burchnall and replace him with former Rangers and Everton hero Duncan Ferguson.
The fee was widely reported to be £350,000 although the Ibrox giants officially stated the figure was 'undisclosed' and added 'In addition to the undisclosed transfer fee, Rangers have retained a significant future sell-on percentage, as well as return options and matching rights on Charlie for the future’. However, that appears to have riled eccentric Forest Green Rovers chief Vince, who is famously on a mission to turn the Gloucestershire club into the greenest in the world. And he was keen to stress they had paid Rangers nowhere near that figure.
He said: "That figure is what Rangers said. It isn’t true. It’s a fraction of that price." McCann, who switched international allegiances from Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland last year, could make his debut for Ferguson's new club at Shrewsbury Town on Saturday.
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