As hinted at in a recent piece, with Rangers’ deal for Hansa Rostock’s Ryan Naderi hanging in the balance, attention has turned to Southampton’s Cameron Archer.
If ever Ibrox Noise was underwhelmed by striking targets, these two would be primo.
Naderi, free-scoring against the German equivalent of Alloa, while Archer isn’t even scoring in England’s Championship.
Youth career
Archer, 24, has a credible youth career with England. He got an excellent 6 in 11 for the U21s, but that was a long time ago.
His form has crumbled at club level, he’s fallen down the pecking order at St Mary’s, and Rangers are turning to him in desperation at the dire lack of quality we have up front.
Indeed he has just 6 starts for Southampton in England’s second tier this season, and just 2 goals in all appearances (19).
If we wanted a low-scoring fail of a striker, we’d sign an Everton reject for £10M. Oh wait…
In Archer’s defence, he does have quite a few Premier League outings, but alas it was for the same Russell Martin Southampton that Joe Aribo also crashed at. That team was a doomed nightmare.
EFL slop
This player would be the quintessential example of the EFL slop Rangers have signed for far too long, and we wouldn’t even be able to whine at Russell Martin or Kevin Thelwell this time.
No, this would be a Danny Rohl acquisition, ditto of course Rostock’s Naderi.
That one is looking like being a summer job unless a last-minute price can be negotiated between both clubs today.
Even then, we end up with a striker who’s had one good season in the German third division.
Parody
We swear, we were making parody gags about that kind of level of player not that long ago.
At one point we’re sure we mentioned the gems one could find in the Afghan third division as well…
We digress.
We can’t say Archer or Naderi exactly fill us with confidence. Neither shines as being better than any of the mince we already have.
We already have strikers who can’t score, we’re not sure why we want more of them.
We gave Kevin Thelwell dog’s abuse for getting Chermiti and paying full whack for Miovski. But Rohl is doing the same with these two.
We’re not sure Cameron Archer or Ryan Naderi is going to take us to 56 this season, but hey, we’ve been wrong before!