Calvin Bassey left out of Rangers team as transfer speculation intensifies

Calvin Bassey has been left out of the Rangers team to play Blackpool in Saturday afternoon’s pre-season friendly.

Rangers' Calvin Bassey has been heavily linked with a move to Ajax.

Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s men travelled down to Lancashire to take on the Seasiders at Bloomfield, but the 22-year-old was a glaring absentee from the team sheet as Ajax and Brighton and Hove Albion fight it out to sign him.

Both clubs have lodged bids for Bassey, with Ajax understood to be prepared to pay the £20million-plus required to tempt Rangers into accepting as the Dutch club are on the cusp of selling their own defender Lisandro Martinez to Manchester United.