You can’t trust taxi drivers. Whether they’re deliberately taking you the long way home to ramp up the fare, or indecently exposing themselves to drunk young girls in the back seat on a Friday night, they’re always looking to stitch you up. Just ask Rangers striker Francisco Sandaza, who last month was duped into a hoax phone call by a Glaswegian taxi driver posing as a US-based agent.
The Celtic-supporting cabbie somehow obtained the Spanish forward’s phone number and pretended he was Jim McGonagle, a fictional MLS agent looking to sign European players to American clubs.
He then recorded everything the bumbling Spaniard said, including the fact he only moved to Rangers for the money and would leave in a heartbeat if he could get more elsewhere.
Sandaza admits that the weather and standard of football are not good, lifts the lid on his £4,500 per-week wages, and says he would move to the MLS without blinking.
“I only signed for the money,” he said. “I didn’t sign for the level.”
Sandaza values himself at £500,000, adding he would like to see any proposed contract before Rangers are informed: “First if you have something official for a club that wants to pay money for me, show me the contract, and if everything is okay I will give you the okay to speak with Rangers.
“If I don’t see anything official first I don’t want any trouble with Rangers, maybe the press finds out.”
It wasn’t all bad though. Apparently he was quite complimentary to manager Ally McCoist and the club’s fans. Was that good enough to save him from punishment? Not a chance. He was suspended pending an investigation by the club. Tool.
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