Rangers Have Done Great To Get Max Aarons But Missed A BIG Trick | OneFootball

The worst-kept secret in Scottish football is now out, and it has been officially confirmed that Rangers have indeed signed Max Aarons. Ibrox noise conjectured earlier on in a previous entry that there was every possibility that this was option to buy because Sky Sports had reported that there would be no obligation to buy.

Sky Sports were absolutely correct about that, but unfortunately our speculation regarding a potential option to buy was unfounded, and this is purely just a loan. Now don’t get us wrong, this guy in theory is of good calibre.

He’s experienced in the Premier League with around 100 appearances, and while his stock has fallen in recent times, you don’t play in the Premier League at his age that many times if you can’t play a bit. So we do hope that he lives up to the past CV even if his time in Spain wasn’t too productive, but we are a bit disappointed in that lack of an option to buy.

Basically the notion is that he is too pricey at the moment, that he at a value of around £8-10m is too expensive to have signed permanently. However, that may not be the case next summer. When this loan ends, we may have been extremely impressed by Max Aarons indeed. He may well be a perfect successor to James Tavernier, or indeed a replacement right now.

But that option isn’t there. The option to buy Max Aarons doesn’t exist. It may well be that a deal can be done regardless with Bournemouth to bring the boy permanently if he impresses. But the fact that Rangers don’t have first refusal in this contract is a curious one. This is the new ownership. This is the people, the new ownership, have employed the likes of Kevin Thelwell etc to do the negotiations at this level. And yet still it feels a little bit ham-fisted.

Any loan signing should have an option to buy. There should always be an option, not an obligation as was stupidly done with Dio and Cortes, but an option. Because if the player doesn’t impress, he can just go back and that’s fine. But if he does, then we have the option to make it permanent if a deal can be struck and negotiated.

Aarons doesn’t have that. We will just have to see what the future holds for this player and how he does as a Rangers man. And we do look forward to seeing him. He does seem to be a better calibre of right back than we have had for a long time at Rangers. But that term, that contract, that lack of option is a little bit disappointing.

We can’t hide that.