Ranger's squad fractures after repeated wage breaches

The latest episode in Ranger’s salary crisis has opened a definitive rift in the dressing room. Club insiders say most players have received only half of the wages owed after four months without full pay, and the new breach has been the tipping point that has shattered group unity.

Several players have already lined up departures, some exploring moves to other clubs in the Andorran league and others abroad. The most affected are the Mexican players, who arrived in the Principality solely to play for Ranger’s and lack both the funds to return home and immediate sporting opportunities elsewhere.

Those who have found potential exits are asking the club to facilitate contract terminations, even if that requires waiving part of the outstanding debt to speed up the process. Teammates say that after so many months of uncertainty, “now it’s a personal matter for each one” and that each player will decide their own path.

The situation follows a brief spell of apparent stability: days earlier the board had said sponsor contributions had been unlocked and payments would normalize. Repeated breaches, however, have left confidence “definitely broken,” according to the same sources.

Despite the instability, the calendar moves on. Ranger’s, unbeaten leaders in the Lliga Multisegur Assegurances, are due to face UE Santa Coloma this Sunday at 16:00. Santa Coloma has also faced economic tensions linked to involvement by Mexican investors but has so far offset them with television rights revenue from last season’s European qualifiers.

Whether Ranger’s will field a team on Sunday now depends on each player’s individual decision, in an unprecedented scenario that puts both the sporting project’s continuity and the club’s institutional structure in doubt.