Rangers fans are in shock at Goldson’s new deal

There’s no question a lot of head scratching has been taking place over Connor Goldson’s new deal.

Doing nothing himself to quell the speculation, Goldson never once committed himself to staying at Ibrox, and until this left field signature, the stopper was leaving.

The info ultimately was wrong, but there’s no denying it was absolutely on the cards for months and he’d done zero to suggest that was incorrect.

He even said a cryptic goodbye with a suggestive post on Instagram – one which appreciated the past but said nothing about staying.

Borna Barisic, by comparison, vividly said he was looking forward to next season, with no apparent intention of leaving, but Goldson had none of that.

So what changed?

There are three ways of looking at this.

1: He quite simply changed his mind, and has decided his future lies with Rangers after all. His family are said to be settled in Scotland, and he was ooing and aahing about moving but ultimately decided staying was the better option. He’s allowed to change his mind, in fairness.

2: He’s signed a deal to ensure Rangers get a fee in event of him leaving, but let’s face it, no one has offered anything for him so that’s unlikely. Maybe Forest are about to submit an offer, we couldn’t possibly tell you. All bets are off.

3: He waited on offers, didn’t get anything he liked, so stayed. Simple as.

What we do know is Goldson was leaving, 100%, till he wasn’t.

And that’s really all we can say.

We must admit a spot of amusement at the hate-filled replies to our ‘how will you remember him’ post of a few days ago, where every man and his dog was abusing Goldson, and are now celebrating his new deal!

End of the day, we’re not fussed – we’re not giant fans of his overall ability, but we do recognise he’s been an integral part of the club for 4 years.

He is now likely to partner John Souttar in the heart of defence is what probably will be Rangers’ backline duo.

We also have Filip Helander, Calvin Bassey (for now), and Niko Katic (welcome back). Leon Balogun, unlike Goldson, Davis and Arfield, has not put pen to paper yet but hey, that will probably happen too!

We don’t pretend we get everything right on Ibrox Noise, we’re human and we’ll get things wrong.

But we’re pretty sure up until very recently, Goldson WAS leaving…