Rangers Disgrace, Humiliate, Owe me - Sadiq Umar
By Sampson Adedeji
Former Dream Team VI striker Umar Sadiq has opened on the reason why he failed to perform in the colour of Scottish Premier League giant Glasgow Rangers.
Sadiq joined Rangers on loan from AS Roma but could only play once for the club in cup game against Aberdeen.
"All of a sudden, I was told that I could not use the first-team dressing-room any more. Instead I had to go change with the kids. Then, after a few days, I was also forbidden to park my car inside the training centre.
“I felt humiliated and kept asking what was the reason for the change of attitude. But I never received any answers. Gerrard wouldn’t give any explanation about it, neither to me nor my representatives.
"I believe absolutely that I was not given a fair chance to show what I can do. They made me feel like a stranger. I started only once (in the League Cup semi-final against Aberdeen) and that was when there were no other strikers available.
"For me, everything went wrong after they brought in another striker (Lafferty). Once I put a ‘like’ on Instagram to a post from a fan – and I was fined £20,000, which was absurd.
"And Rangers didn’t even pay me up everything I was due. They still have to give me my salary for December. I honestly don’t care how they do,” he said.
As long as I was a Rangers player, I behaved like a professional, giving everything I could of myself to the shirt.
But now I don’t want to hear about them and what they are doing anymore. In my opinion, they behaved in a disrespectful way to me, both as a player and as a person.
"When it ended, Steven Gerrard didn’t even have the courage to talk to me and tell me what was happening face-to-face. That was a surprise to me. I didn’t expect such behaviour.
"How he will do long-term as a manager, I do not know. That is his business and I have my own career to think about," he concluded.
At new club Perugia, Sadiq has scored twice in eight games as he tries to get his career back on track.
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