Rangers’ injury issues are starting to pile up following Lawrence Shankland’s potentially 2026-ending hamstring tear.
Derek McInnes has confirmed that Tuur Rommens remains a bit away from returning to the squad. Naturally Youssef Chermiti is out for the season.
Meanwhile Rangers have been hit by a further blow with new signing Daisuke Yokota now sidelined. He has a groin issue and will miss St Mirren at the very least. Daisuke Yokota injury is hardly helpful.
– Lawrence Shankland has suffered a hamstring tear, relating to a previous injury from last season. We expect to have a clearer idea of the extent of the injury within the next 48 hours following a scan.
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This means while it’s not quite a calamity, once again around early autumn Rangers’ annual injury crisis appears. It likes to creep up on us at this time of the year bizarrely seeing accumulation of injuries accelerating.
The loss of Yokota is not ideal, but Rangers do have a boatload of wingers with Ross McCausland, Djeidi Gassama, new signing Badredine Bouanani and of course Findlay Curtis at their disposal.
But nevertheless in the course of 5 weeks Rangers have lost a fair few players, and the last thing we need is for a crisis to appear and take out any more bodies.
More as we get it on Daisuke Yokota injury.