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Jamie Murphy clarifies Rangers transfer near-collapse after fans make intervening club assumption

Jamie Murphy was quick to shut down assumptions on which SPFL club almost scuppered his move to Rangers back in 2018.

Murphy dropped a bombshell this week on Open Goal with Si Ferry and co. after revealing a club from Scotland had got in touch with Brighton back before his move to tell them Gers couldn't AFFORD to sort the signing.

It almost convinced the Seagulls to pull the plug on the move before Murphy's agent finally got both clubs back around the table to ensure his dream switch could be sealed on what eventually turned out to be an initial loan.

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Fans immediately took to social media to widely share the clip while speculating that Celtic was the club in question looking to change the trajectory of Murphy's career.

But the Ayr United star, 35, took to his own page on X and shared a "paranoid" GIF as he captioned it: "Relax, nobody said it was your team…"

Murphy's story went: "It was a bit of a fiasco. I fly up on the Thursday and have the first part of the medical. The second part of the medical is the Friday so I do that and I’ve to go to Murray Park because they were flying out to Florida so it was trying to get it all done for then.

"It was a transfer, no loan so it gets to 2 o'clock and they needed to get some stuff done with Brighton, but they weren't really responding so we just had to sit for a bit. It gets to 5,6,7 o'clock and the Rangers boys have all met up now. They couldn't get a hold of them. My agent then got a hold of them and they said the deal's off. Let's just say another SPL team had phoned them and told them that Rangers couldn't afford it, they'd no money. I was actually sitting with a McDonald's because we'd been in there all day, wondering what's going on. There was no food! Mark Allen said not to worry, leave it them and they'd sort it.

"It gets to 11 o'clock at night and he's like nah, they’ve said it's off. So I phoned Paul Barber, the chief executive at Brighton and told him I was NOT coming back down, there is no chance on this earth. I’d moved the wife, the kids, we were in a house and selling the one down south.

"Paul said, 'Unfortunately Jamie, sometimes this happens,’ and I hung the phone up. My agent is on the phone with them all day and the next day. Brighton said it could be a loan and Rangers have to pay this money. It's all agreed, are you alright with that? I was like aye, just get me in."