As Ibrox Noise brought to you only a couple of days ago (but much earlier than expected), Niko Kranjcar’s disastrous time at Ibrox has finally been brought to a merciful end.
We knew he would be leaving, we just didn’t quite know it would be as soon as this – albeit the mutual consent moniker was nothing if not predictable.
Kranjcar has had a decent career, even if the spell at Spurs, regarded by many as the symbol of his star power, was viewed by the player himself as poor.
With periods at EPL Portsmouth and Ukrainian giants Kyiv, Kranjcar certainly enjoyed a decent fist of it at the highest levels, and when his time in USA with Cosmos was curtailed due to foreign player quotient, Mark Warburton really thought he was making a genius signing by bringing in a 80+ Croatian international.
Unfortunately, like with Jordan Rossiter, he failed to take into account the player’s diabolical injury history, and in Kranjcar’s case, age.
It is a signing which will go down as one of Rangers’ worst ever – managing four full matches in 20 months gives some idea of the guy’s fitness issues, and the fact his only genuinely half decent displays were against Peterhead in the League Cup and Marseille in a friendly give a further indication of how badly his legs were gone.
In truth, how on earth did Kranjcar pass the medical? Was one even carried out on him?
He’s not a bad sort, and spoke pretty well during his time in Scotland – even if some of it was clearly playing to the galleries (Who doesn’t?), but his product on the pitch and the cost of his Auchenhowie treatment not to mention fat wage will go down as a dreadful blot in Rangers’ recent history.
He has done the right thing now – although it is pretty certain he will have walked away with a sweetener. Footballers aren’t charities.
One wonders if Jordan Rossiter is likely to end up departing on mutual consent any time soon too.
Gutted that It didnt work out for Kranjcar (he was some player!)
But like u says age was against him and his best days were Spurs/Pompy
Also Think its time to get rid of Rossiter 😞👎
1 down, 12 to go!
It was ashame he came after his legs went. But I recon this guy will have had a good effect on the youngsters coming through. It’s not every day they get to train with such a great pro who has been there an done it. Especially at international level. I can only hope he pops back in the future..
After Rossiters recent twitter mishap, something he’s had absolutely no comment on, I’d be happy to see the back of him too.
Rossiter has 18 months left where's he going???
Who's going to buy him!!!!
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