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Your weekly roundup Rangers January transfer rumours - Defensive crisis + Ryan Kent to make Ibrox return?
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07/01/2025
GlasgowWorld discuss the latest Rangers transfer murmurings after the first week of the transfer window.
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We'll move on to Rangers then Declan, what can you say, it's been a topsy-turvy start
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to the season to say the least for Philippe Clement's side, well behind Celtic in the
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Scottish Premiership title race, have been faring better of course in Europe where they seem to do
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save their best performances for Europe at this stage but you'd imagine in this window
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defence at this moment in time is a real crisis going on with injuries to the likes of James
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Tavernier, Liam Ballaghan, John Souter, you'd imagine that's one area that Clement will be
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looking at and there's already been quite a few candidates rumoured. Yeah I think we only had to
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have a look at an overseas goal he's out just now too and we only had to look at the back four in
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that Dabby game which came through the fixer fine but you know having to play Yilmaz at right back
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Stirling in the middle it's not too practical for Clement and when Stirling went off at the weekend
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obviously it was Leon King coming in, again you can maybe see he's a bit similar to Welsh in terms
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of he's been in the picture for a while but just not a lot of game time and he's played up to a
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decent level with Scotland too so whether again Lewis he maybe looks to try and bring him and
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again obviously you've spoken about that gap at the top of the table you know in terms of what
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the priority is towards you know the rest of the month obviously Rangers there's the expectation
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to win games of football but to bring in somebody for the youth set up who has looked okay whenever
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he's fed to Rangers they might like to do that but I know there's a couple of names that are.
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Yeah so just touching on those names then you've got Bam O'Meaty who's emerged just over the last
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24 hours or so plays his football for Marseille in Liguria and he's valued at around nine million
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pounds so you'd imagine at this stage unless it's a loan deal that that would be fairly unrealistic
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given that we know Rangers don't have a big transfer kitty to spend in January that's
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been made evidently clear. The other two names that have been mentioned in the last couple of
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days is Johnny Evans from Manchester United, highly dependable figure and vastly experienced
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could come in and shore up that back line I guess but I mean you're asking a lot for a guy of his
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age to maybe play in the games. Especially when you've also got somebody in the building like
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Baligan who will eventually come back obviously Baligan 36 Evans 37 it's not very practical is it?
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Again I mean from what I've watched in Johnny Evans this season he still looks
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okay he doesn't look like a 37 year old footballer but again what kind of money would he be looking
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on to come up to Ivorox he'll be in decent money at Old Trafford I know he kind of was
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without a club started training with United and then came in there came under the picture
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under Ten Hag of course it's all been changed at Old Trafford since then. I believe he's a
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big Rangers fan though so you do wonder if that could have an impact. It could but you just don't
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know with this if Manchester United need him which they actually might do I would imagine he'll be
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at Old Trafford until the end of the season. And Ryan Porteous is the other name which given his
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time in Scottish football previously I know he's rather unsettled and not enjoying life at Watford
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at this moment in time but he was somewhat of a pantomime villain wasn't he up here during his
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time at Hibs so again another one you wouldn't be convinced at this stage. I think you know
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you know yourself in terms of any transfer window whether it be the summer or the winter
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there's always these names that bandied about Porteous I wouldn't be surprised if he just
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becomes one of those and gets linked back but again you know Scotland international I know it's
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not really worked out probably how we'd have hoped it at Watford but yeah I just want to keep an eye
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on but you know certainly in terms of where Rangers are at just now they will be looking
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I would imagine to bring in somebody just to give a wee bit of exit at that back four. And in an
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attacking sense one name who has been heavily linked ever since he became a free agent
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is Ryan Kent now a Rangers fans will be well aware of this man's talents albeit the reaction
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seems to be fairly mixed around this one Declan purely on the fact that a lot of Rangers fans
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kind of feel he really downed tools in that final year of his contract at Ibrox obviously went out
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to Turkey spent 16 months out there ill-fated to say the least very few first team appearances
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wasn't fancied by Jose Mourinho has been a free agent now for a couple of months and still on the
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lookout for a club there was even talks that he's back actually back in living in Glasgow again
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and so but a player that Filipe Comonte has gone on the record saying that he previously
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tried to sign so given his current situation would this not be a bit of a no-brainer?
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It probably is a no-brainer if he is looking for the transfer and Rangers are willing to sign him
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when he goes in and that team with the way the system plays where he plays when they can attend
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is where you would imagine he goes who drops out because obviously you know Chernie
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has had a great season so far in terms of you know goals and assists and he's come back and
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he's come back in and looked the part too for Rangers so certainly in that department they look
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kind of well stocked to getting a man hydrated the weekend and whatever else so it just depends
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what kind of wages as well can be looking at you can't imagine him coming in for
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you know 15 grand a week I'm sure would probably be up there as one of the
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at the top here but certainly one of the higher earners of the club and
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depending on where Rangers are at financially in terms of their kitty for this January window
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whether that position is a priority I'm not too sure yeah yeah it's a good point I think
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there has been other names banded around two Croatian players in particular Marco Soldo
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who's a more of the kind of defensive minded midfielder he'd be around 2.4 million and Leon
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Belcar is more of an actual number 10 both playing back in their homeland in the Croatian
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top flight at this moment in time but yeah Ryan Kent is the interesting one here we will have
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suitors in January as undoubtedly you know a player of his quality doesn't become available
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that freely in January does it Declan so that is all for today's show thanks for tuning in and
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stay tuned for next week's roundup of all the latest transfer news surrounding Celtic and Rangers
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