Rangers transfer hurdle grows higher with over...

Rangers transfer hurdle grows higher with over £20m of talent now sidelined

Rangers transfer hurdle grows higher with over £20m of talent now sidelined Rangers News

While Borna Barisic, Tom Lawrence, and Ryan Jack’s recent comeback may have been encouraging,

Philippe Clement is still struggling with injuries.

We’ll be lucky to see striker pair Danilo and Kemar Roofe again this season,

whilst Abdallah Sima’s returned from AFCON early with a long-term problem.

Add into the mix a long-term injury sustained by Kieran Dowell in the club’s winter training camp,

and the fact Ben Davies remains sidelined, and suddenly the problems are once again beginning to mount.

That’s before we mention the situation with Jose Cifuentes, for whom some confusion reigns on the injury front.

Rangers injury woes amount to over £20m of talent

Between them, this group of five players are highly experienced, high-earners, and, with the exception of Kieran Dowell, have high price tags

attached.

Brazilian striker Danilo signed a reported £6m to join Rangers from Feyenoord in the summer, whilst Kemar Roofe has toiled with injury ever

since his £4.5m move in 2020.

Abdallah Sima – who has scored 15 goals since signing on loan from Brighton in the summer – also cost the Seagulls the bones of £7m when he

signed from Slavia Prague in 2021.

Whilst Kieran Dowell joined Rangers on a pre-contract following the expiration of his deal at Norwich City, Ben Davies cost £4m when he was

signed from Liverpool in 2022.

That’s more than £20m of talent not currently contributing, and unlikely to really contribute in the weeks ahead, in a damning indictment of the

club’s fitness record.

For a side like Rangers to be missing such substantial investment is genuinely devastating and the club are hamstrung by the situation at present –

no pun intended.

Whilst it’s easy to say that Rangers need to go out and buy more players, quality investment comes at a cost and also bulks out an already stretched

wage bill.