Sam Lammers hits Rangers with transfer exit blow as he makes jaw dropping Utrecht demand

Sam Lammers may have priced himself out of a transfer back to Holland this summer after demanding three times more than Utrecht’s highest paid player.

Record Sport understands the Ereveridise outfit were prepared to match Rangers’ asking price of around £2.7 million for the 27 -year-old, on the back of a highly successful loan move during the second half of last season.

But any prospect of a permanent deal has collapsed after Lammers made it clear he is not prepared to accept less in wages than he’s raking in on his current bumper Ibrox contract - which still has three more years left to run.

Sources in the Netherlands believe Lammers is holding out for a package worth around 1.5m euros per year. But Utrecht’s top line is understood to be around the 500,000 euros mark, which has forced the club to look elsewhere in the hunt for a new goal scorer.

Last week they shelled out a fee of around £1.4m to buy 21-year-old striker Noah Ohio from Belgian side Standard Liege and that signing effectively killed off any chance of a move for Lammers being revisited.

Twente Enschede and AZ Alkmaar have also been credited with an interest in the player who signed for Rangers last summer as a key part of Michael Beale’s big rebuild - but who is now training with the B team under Philippe Clement. But neither of those clubs can get close to matching the financial terms of the four year deal he was given when he moved to Glasgow from Italian side Atalanta 12 months ago.