Connor Goldson has rubbished rumours that he previously rejected a new Rangers contract.
The centre back delighted fans when he put pen to paper on a new four-year deal earlier this summer. It had been expected that Goldson would move on after things seemed to go quiet on the new deal front.
A return to England seemed on the cards, but the defender extended his Ibrox stay after lifting the Scottish Cup at Hampden back in May. That triumph came just days after Europa League final heartache against Eintracht Frankfurt. Rumblings that Goldson had knocked back an offer from the Govan club never seemed to go away until the shock announcement of his new agreement. And the 29-year-old is adamant he didn't speak to any other clubs and was always keen to remain in Glasgow.
“I can’t say I ever had intentions of leaving because I never spoke to anyone,” he said. “It was a decision for the whole family because my wife is up here, on her own, with two kids. Our family is four, five hours away. I know some people don’t think that’s a big thing but it is.
“But when we went away and we actually spoke about it we said we’re happy here. My wife is starting to find her feet again after Covid, she’s getting out and making friends. Our boys are in a routine of going to nursery.
“I always said I was happy here, but I wanted to be appreciated. In the end the club and that happened within three days of me being on holiday.
“I didn’t actually speak to Rangers during the season. It came out in the press a few times that I had rejected contracts and I never did. There was one contract offered to me after we won the league. It got negotiated, but then we let football do that talking, especially during the back end of last season when we had so many important matches. So the whole thing about me rejecting contracts wasn’t true at all.”
Goldson stated as much in a social media post when he signed. But he’s now decided to set the record straight once and for all after spending the week in Portugal on a pre-season training camp, which ended in farce as a friendly against Sunderland was abandoned due to floodlight failure.
He added: “That’s why when I ended up signing I put up a post on social media saying there had been so much spoken about me that was wrong,” Goldson added.
“I didn’t speak at the time, I didn’t do any interviews and I think a lot of the fans took that to mean that I wanted to leave the football club. I never did. When the season started I came off social media, but you still see these things because your family and friends send you articles.
“The day I signed my contract at Rangers there was one report that morning which said I was already down the road signing for Nottingham Forest. It sums it all up. It’s frustrating because you see all that and some fans actually take that to be the truth.”
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