Abdallah Sima has effectively confirmed he intends to make his loan move to Rangers permanent and has finally found the right club for his talents.

Ibrox Noise reported recently that the club was intending to work on a deal with Brighton to sign the Senegal international on a permanent basis, and with the Seagulls making mega profit on some recent sales (£250M in 18 months) they are willing to make a little loss on Sima, having spent £7M on him from Praha.

And Sima himself is keen to stay in Scotland, not only being happier than he has ever been in his career, but now as a new father his family is settled here.

He said:

“You know, in football anything can happen. To be honest, I am really happy to be in Glasgow right now and wearing this special shirt for me. It is a team that I really like. I said in my first interview it was a club I really like. They have everything for me to be happy. I am happy to be here and I hope we are going to find some things from here. I am happy to be here and to be helping the team now.”

The big part is ‘happy to be here and I hope we are going to find some things from here’ which is second-language English for ‘I’d like a solution to this only being a loan’.

Philippe Clement has definitely got the best from the forward, even including that barren spell of goals, albeit his play during that period wasn’t the best.

The problem with Sima is when he’s not scoring he’s basically not bringing anything at all – he does work hard and runs with the ball but he doesn’t assist and he doesn’t have an ounce of composure.

He does have outstanding positional sense and pops up with brilliant goals, but he’s not a Colak with pure scoring 9 instinct.

He’s an odd forward that’s for sure, a very atypical striker, and despite (formerly) being a winger, he literally does not assist. At all. He has barely 10 career assists and that’s not going to change in Govan.

But he’s clearly one we like and we’re working on keeping.

He’s happy to stick around too.