Aris target a third Rangers player to add to their collection of two | OneFootball

Hot on the heels of adding a second Rangers player to their squad in the form of Leon Balogun, Cypriot giants Aris Limassol also want surplus winger Ross McCausland on loan as well.

The Mediterranean side originally secured Connor Goldson for a reported £200,000 last summer, and were quick to snap up a lucrative free in the form of the ex-Nigerian international Balogun this close season as well. Aris clearly has a taste for Ibrox surplus, building a curious little Scottish-flavoured project over in Limassol, one that’s rapidly becoming a haven for Rangers’ fringe names. There’s ambition there, albeit shaped with slightly second-hand parts.

Now it appears they have set their sights on Ross McCausland on loan to add to the ranks in southern Europe too. McCausland never shone at Rangers – he got a good 10 initial days when he broke through, but his limitations appeared quickly and he faded from Philippe Clement’s squad. There was a flicker of hope, a glimpse of energy in his early appearances, but it all withered under the weight of expectation and lack of real end product. In the end, he became more of a name than a player.

Indeed, McCausland and the hype around him probably summed up the Belgian’s judgement, creating fanfare over a painfully ordinary player who never came close to the potential Rangers’ former manager implied in him. It was smoke and mirrors, a gamble on youthful promise that fizzled out. Clement seemed determined to sell a dream – but the reality was far more beige.

These days the Cypriots look likely to take Ross McCausland on loan, which will surely end his Rangers career for good, but then loans don’t necessarily mean that anymore. Kieran Dowell has gone from rejected loan at Birmingham to Rangers ‘captain’ in the past two weeks, so who actually knows? Stranger things have happened at Ibrox. One moment you’re invisible, the next you’re lifting armbands and leading the line. Football’s a weird mistress like that.

Either way, we doubt McCausland will get a second bite at the Rangers cherry – he’s just not good enough, but we wish him luck. A sunny Cypriot reset might be the making of him, or it might be the gentle fade into obscurity we all quietly expected. Either way, the road ahead probably doesn’t lead back to Glasgow.