After Sunday’s embarrassment at
Hampden, 2nd of February sees the dreaded deadline day upon us, and
with Rangers’ best players being linked away, the real possibility of a
threadbare squad to scrape its way to the rest of the season now exists.
Tentative early links have
newly-managerless Nottingham
Forest back in for star
defender Lee Wallace, a player who has lacked form and desire at Ibrox for some
time. He would fetch around £800,000.
The Nicky Law to Leeds story
persists too, with the former Rotherham man high on the priority of those at Elland Road, along
with a number of other suitors such as Huddersfield.
Nicky Clark has been rumoured as
a target for a loan departure to Notts County, while Kilmarnock remain
interested in their former striker Kris Boyd, if less so at the rumoured
£400,000 price tag.
Last but not least David
Templeton, a dismally poor signing, is mooted for a departure as well, with
former Celtic manager Neil Lennon’s new charges Bolton
being a potential destination.
Depressingly, Rangers’ really
awful players like McCulloch, Foster, Black and Aird have absolutely no stories
linking them away, so while the very best may move to pastures new, McDowall
would be left with a squad barely good enough to survive in the Championship,
never mind get promoted.
Hopefully this fire sale does not
come to pass and the ‘best’ players are retained. Failure to do so would be
catastrophic.