Former £40M striker now free agent – should Rangers swoop?

There is little question that, aside the troubling aspect of defence right now, Rangers’ main area of concern is striker.

With Alfredo Morelos looking elsewhere, and struggling in the big games, while Jason Cummings has not yet asserted himself in the first team yet, not to mention the threadbare options like Kenny Miller and Eduardo Herrera as backup, Rangers really do need someone pretty special up top to really assert that position better.

We are no strangers to spectacular, earth-shattering deals – Gascoigne, Steven, Boli, and more recently Barton and even Senderos were significant captures, with varying degrees of success.

As such, could an audacious move for Jackson Martinez be on the cards?

The former £40M Colombian striker had an absolutely torrid time in China, flopping dismally after his hyped-up move from Atletico Madrid, and at age 31 has everything to prove.

If Rangers were to bring him in, at a budget suitable for both, it could give him the chance to restore his career while giving Rangers potentially, an incredible striker and one of the biggest coups in Scottish football history.

There is no reason the Famous Glasgow Rangers are incapable of signing such a star – even in the recent past on top of Barton and Senderos we’ve brought in Kranjcar, himself once a huge name.

And Martinez doesn’t have an ignominious past with injuries to blight him. He is a healthy, fairly young striker with a whole hell of a lot of proving to do and if his wages were to be modest in line with Rangers’ structure, it would be an incredible signing which could help take Rangers back where we belong.

Martinez is a free agent, and, on form, one of the best strikers around – but his current stock in the sport is at an all-time low.

Exactly the kind of moment Rangers should swoop.