RANGERS have been told they will not get Motherwell duo Louis Moult and Ben Heneghan on the cheap this summer.
Both players have been linked with the Ibrox club as part of Pedro Caixinha's summer rebuild but it could cost the Portuguese and his board if they want to tempt them away from Lanarkshire.
Former Chester centre-half Heneghan has been put forward as the man to help solidify the Rangers defence, while Moult, Motherwell's top scorer two seasons on the trot with 18 goals, would certainly add a potent goal threat in a Light Blue shirt.
However, with both players still under contract next term, Fir Park CEO Alan Burrows has been blunt about the chances of either player leaving at a bargain rate.
He said: “There has been some speculation about some of our players. It’s public knowledge, or certainly public speculation, that Louis Moult and Ben Heneghan and others are targets for other clubs. That remains to be scene.
“What I will say about our recruitment policy is this. We sell a vision to players when they come here. We tell them and want them to know it’s a partnership between them and the club.
“We will showcase them in a good league and environment where they can develop their talent, they become better players and as a result will be of bigger interests than Motherwell Football Club. That’s our model.
“For that to work properly though, is to make sure we get true value for our players.
“We will not, and I say this categorically, have our pants pulled down by any club looking to try and get a player on the cheap here.
“We’ve done it before in the past and it’s been hugely frustrating for our supporters, me included when I used to watch us lose good players for what I thought was not a lot of money."
Burrows is insistent any Motherwell players will be sold as long as their 'proper value' was met.
This was the case at the start of the season when Marvin Johnson was eventually sold on for a large six-figure sum to Oxford United. It is a model Motherwell are not prepared to deviate from now.
Speaking to MFC TV, Burrows told said: “What I can absolutely give people assurance of is that if anyone wants any player who is still contracted at Motherwell they are going to have to come up with a proper value.
“If they don’t come up with a proper value we will not be selling them, it’s as simple as that. If we do sell them for cheap it undermines the whole model.
“What I will reiterate again is that if a player is in contract at Motherwell, we want to sell them that vision and we want them to complete that vision. You think of Jamie Murphy and other guys who in recent years have gone to enjoy fantastic careers. Ross McCormack, Darren Randolph and countless others.
“We will work with them to help those players achieve that goal but what we would be is undermined in terms of people trying to come in and take players for less than their true value.
“We will stick steadfast to that."
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