It’s abundantly clear next season is where it’s at for Rangers. We are already hamstrung by our incompetent manager and by a meagre squad, but what of the latter? 9 out 8 in and we’ll tell you who.
What do we know about the personnel on our books for sure come pre-season training?
Ibrox Noise guides you through all the talking points about the newest developments.
Departures:
9 players are confirmed as going. Kieran Wright, Liam Kelly, James Tavernier, Derek Cornelius, Nasser Djiga, Max Aarons, Jayden Meghoma, Andreas Skov Olsen and Mikey Moore.
Cornelius is already gone, he’s hooked up with Canada already and he won’t be returning. Tavernier may have played his last match as well.
So that’s 9 for sure that have either gone already or will leave after Falkirk.
Incomings:
Obviously we can’t quite yet know who is going to arrive, but we do know what loans are returning.
Jose Cifuentes, Ross McCausland and Ben Davies all return, albeit Davies’ actual deal expires this summer anyway.
Lyall Cameron comes back, Clinton Nsalia and Leon King (albeit expired deal) too will make their way back to Govan. Paul Nsio comes back and of course Findlay Curtis returns to Ibrox after an excellent spell with Killie.
Oh, and don’t forget Danilo who still hasn’t secured his deal at NEC yet.
So we will lose a bunch of players of varying quality, and regain… mostly a bunch of rubbish.
It’s going to leave the squad this summer in an even bigger mess than it currently is and with the low budget ‘the manager’ will have overhauling won’t be easy.
As things stand, this is 26/27’s Rangers squad (inc. expired deals and 9 out 8 in):
Jack Butland, Dujon Sterling, Emmanuel Fernandez, John Souttar, Tuur Rommens, Leon King, Ben Davies, Clinton Nsalia, Jose Cifuentes, Tochi Chukwuani, Nico Raskin, Connor Barron, Lyall Cameron, Findlay Curtis, Ross McCausland, Nedim Bajrami, Mohamed Diomande, Thelo Aasgaard, Youssef Chermiti, Oliver Antman, Djeidi Gassama, Bojan Miovski, Danilo, Ryan Naderi.
What a load of overpaid underperforming mince. That stuff isn’t good enough to beat Hibs never mind push for a title.
Good lord, Rangers aren’t in a good state going into next season.