Shane Benjamin let go by Rangers

Stafford Rangers manager Matt Elliott has allowed his first signing Shane Benjamin to leave Marston Road - with Shepshed Dynamo the likely destination.

The 30-year-old has been let after falling out of the first-team picture at Rangers, just two months after joining from Racing Club Warwick.

Benjamin was brought in by Elliott in the same week the manager took charge but has not started the last six games and departs with three goals for the club, in back-to-back matches against Corby and Blyth Spartans in his third and fourth of 11 appearances.

The striker missed last Saturday's return match with Blyth through illness, so a 64 minute cameo in the previous game at Boston United has proved his hurrah.

But Benjamin is already attracting interest from Shepshed, his former club, with the Evo-Stik League Division One North outfit contacting Elliott keen to get in touch with the player.

It's the second player the Rangers boss has lost since the club cut his wage budget by 40 per cent with Benjamin, who travels to training and games from south Birmingham, particularly affected by the dock in pay.

However, Elliott was also in agreement that the best solution was for both parties to part company.

He said: "It's been an ongoing situation, one of two times have cropped up where he has been unavailable for training and he was ill last weekend.

"Obviously with the cut in wages, it's a fair distance for him to come and he was finding it difficult to continue.

"All things considered, he has decided to part ways with the club. Whether he's going to Shepshed or not, I don't know."