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Article: Rangers will be left high and dry if they let Numan escape.
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 12, 2003
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Byline: JAMES MELVILLE
WHEN Tony Vidmar met Arthur Numan at Ibrox in the summer of 1998, the Australian was well aware he had just introduced himself to the player who would be taking his place in the Rangers first team.
However, the fact that new manager Dick Advocaat's fellow Dutchman would relegate Vidmar to second-choice left-back did not preclude the two players forming a friendship that lasts to this day.
Numan, then, will doubtless have heard of Vidmar's upset of last spring when, believing he was going to be part of Alex McLeish's plans, the Rangers manager informed him that no new contract offer was forthcoming.
Vidmar had ...