With former Rangers star Andy Halliday questioning whether Andreas Skov Olsen is justifying a potential £9M summer purchase, Ibrox Noise wanted to look at the Dane. An Andreas Skov Olsen transfer is questionable.
We really, really wanted this boy. We saw his CV when we were last linked in his Bologna days, and he’d shone in his homeland, and for his country, and looked promising for the Italians.
Club Bruges got him instead, and he was vintage there, with a boatload of goals and assists.
One-dimensional
Alas, the version Rangers have had is not quite up to speed and looks a bit one-dimensional so far.
This was a signing Ibrox Noise fully encouraged.
Look at his numbers:
79 goals and assists in 124 appearances for Bruges. World class stats. 34 in 51 for Nordsjælland. 18 in 40 for Denmark. Deeply impressive.
Alas his returns at Italy and Germany were not so lively. 4 goals and assists in 23 for Wolfsburg and 8 in 71 in Italy are both absolute fails.
Unfortunately Rangers, at the moment, are getting the Wolsfburg and Italy Skov Olsen, even if his numbers are, for now, actually decent on paper. 3 in 7.
He hasn’t lit things up in Govan the way Ibrox Noise expected – and while he got that big assist for Chermiti v Celtic, overall he’s not terrorising defences the way a winger needs to.
Sluggish? A little.
The ‘he’s not played since November’ line of reasoning will only last for so long, before he really has to pick the pace up and look downright dangerous.
We like him, and we like him a lot, but at the moment, his performances are not yet vindicating the option in the summer.
Andy Skov Olsen needs to pick his own pace, beat defenders, get in balls and crosses with aplomb to start looking like he’s the danger man on the right that we need.
He has talent. His time in Denmark, for Denmark and for Bruges shows what a player he is.
He did, however, like Bojan Miovski, fail in a top 5 league. In Bojan’s case Spain, in ASO’s case Italy and Germany.
His confidence may not quite be there.
And we hope he finds it soon. Otherwise Andy Halliday is probably bang on about Andreas Skov Olsen transfer.