Soccer: Kanchelskis hints at Ibrox exit
Saturday, 30 December 2000 15:44Rangers winger Andrei Kanchelskis insists that his time is up at the club unless he returns to the first team. The Russian has not started a game for the Ibrox club since October and admits that his tenure in Glasgow will come to an end at the season's end. "After the break here, I will see if I am playing or not. If I don't play, maybe I will speak to my agent because I want to play for the team," said Kanchelskis. "But, as I have already said, the decision is for the manager not for me."
Kanchelskis and manager Dick Advocaat fell out after the 32-year-old refused to line out for the Rangers under-21 side. But the former Everton and Manchester United winger insists that there is no animosity between the two men now despite Kanchelskis being frozen out of the first team picture.
"Everything is clear now after a meeting with the boss and everything now is okay. That is in the past and it is better to look forward now," Kanchelskis told Sky Sports. But Kanchelskis, who cost Rangers a then record £5.5million in 1998, has not ruled out a return move to England where he made his name at Goodison Park and Old Trafford. "I am fit and ready to play. At 32, I feel okay," Kanchelskis added. "The English and the Italian is the best league game. I would like to go back to the Premier League and play there, but we will see what happens here."
Filed by Sinéad Kissane
