It may be time for Rangers and Dessers to part company | OneFootball

If one thing stood out (and many did in fairness) against Manchester United for Rangers it was the continuing unpopularity of Nigerian striker Cyriel Dessers and how utterly poor he actually is.

Ibrox Noise has been a long-standing supporter of the former Cremonese man, trying to back and support him much more than many other fans have, but it was hard to defend how poor he was even in a friendly, because it reflected his all-round game in competitive matches for Rangers.

See, Ibrox Noise’s main defence of the ex-Feyenoord hitman was that his goals and assists were strong – in fact they were the best we’ve had, more or less, since Kris Boyd. They surpassed Alfredo Morelos, Nikica Jelavic, James Tavernier and Antonio Colak in terms of combined total, with his having scored the most overall in one season since Jelavic.

But there’s absolutely no doubt that of all of these strikers and players, he has by far the worst touch, control, and at times, attitude on the pitch as well.

Dessers is not a polished striker – he’s a sclaffer of a boy, a rough and ready forward who noises opponents up but then stumbles on the ball, loses the thing, or just completely wastes a pass.

He is rough as hell – we can’t accuse the others of being any of these things, even if they scored fractionally less.

This is not us saying we can do better than Dessers in terms of numbers – we explained only Boyd really has hit big heights numbers-wise for this club in the best part of 30 years. You have to go back to Negri for the kinds of goal volume fans these days seem to expect.

But Dessers just looks awkward, he bumbles, he stumbles, and he clearly doesn’t command assurance from fans in their trust that he won’t mess up a chance.

All the others were polished, careful, methodical, strong – Dessers just blindly fumbles his way into the back of the net, and his hapless display v Utd only reinforced fans’ dislike of him.

Of their insistence that he’s just not good enough.

His numbers, overall, are – but his play style, his bumbling sclaffing all over the place doesn’t visually inspire reassurance he’s not about to ruin everything again.

He is the worst in the SPL for blowing big chances, and that’s when the statistics work against him.

Is it time for Rangers and Dessers to part company?

Well we are talking about a changing of the guard…