Ranger’s FC clears nearly four months of unpaid wages after sponsorship deal
Players and staff have received overdue salaries after the club finalised delayed sponsorship funding, easing dressing-room tensions.
Key Points
- Players and staff have received overdue salaries after the club finalised delayed sponsorship funding, easing dressing-room tensions.
After nearly four months of unpaid wages, Ranger’s FC has begun to settle outstanding salaries and the squad and staff say the immediate crisis has been resolved.
Players received the overdue payments after the club finalised sponsorship agreements that had been delayed, the club says. The board has denied internal mismanagement and attributes the problem to late arrival of external funds; those agreements have now been formalised, allowing the payroll to be put up to date.
Tension within the dressing room had been growing since late October. The unrest became visible on 9 November when players staged a one-minute walkout before the match against FC Santa Coloma, and some squad members warned they might leave if the situation did not improve. A number of players had reportedly considered legal action or departure if salaries were not regularised within a short deadline.
Club sources and players contacted by the media say calm is returning to the locker room and that the matter “has been resolved” with hopes it will not recur. The club publicly credited incoming sponsor funds for easing the situation; Mexican international Marco Fabián has been cited as a public figure involved in the club’s off-field leadership.
Sporting performance was little affected by the off-field tensions: Ranger’s remains at the top of the Lliga Multisegur, with an unbeaten run and a comfortable lead in the table, and the club says it intends to focus fully on on-field objectives and the title race.
Some sources also reported payment delays at UE Santa Coloma linked to difficulties transferring money from Mexico because of banking controls, an issue distinct from Ranger’s but reflective of broader fiscal strains affecting clubs with foreign investment.
With the immediate pay dispute addressed and accounts being brought up to date, Ranger’s aims to return its full attention to competition while the board and players work to restore stability for the remainder of the season.
Original Sources
This article was aggregated from the following Catalan-language sources:
- Diari d'Andorra•
El Ranger’s comença a satisfer els impagaments i pren aire
- Altaveu•
El Ranger's dona per solucionada la crisi de pagaments i se centra del tot en la faceta esportiva
- Bon Dia•
El Ranger's paga les nòmines als jugadors
- El Periòdic•
El Ranger’s posa fi als impagaments gairebé quatre mesos després i es focalitza a mantenir el liderat a la lliga