Rangers fans can’t understand the fixation with Kieran Dowell | OneFootball

If ever Rangers made a rather unnecessary signing, it was former Norwich man Kieran Dowell. A Michael Beale addition, the 26-year-old did have around 20 Premier League appearances, but nowhere near the credibility or CV of former ex-team mate Todd Cantwell, for whom he was being added as a deputy.

He more or less played the same position, attacking midfield, but had never been courted by Villa and Liverpool or had a £40M price tag on his head.

He was, frankly, a bit of a ‘nothing’ player, who adds little to any team.

He won’t make many mistakes, but think Ben Davies in midfield for the kind of player Dowell is – a non-eventful non-event of a player with no obvious qualities at all.

And yet for some reason, despite Rangers having £4.5M Mohamed Diomande, Connor Barron and Nicolas Raskin in midfield, Dowell continues to get used a bewildering amount.

The final straw for a lot of supporters v Lyon was seeing Tom Lawrence removed and Dowell replacing him.

Rather than Nedim Bajrami being moved into the centre and McCausland replacing Lawrence (or anyone else, frankly), it was Dowell.

This had fans exasperated with Clement’s decision-making, but the persistence of Dowell, who seems to be becoming the new Scott Wright, when he adds next-to-nothing to the first team, is quite perplexing.

Clement built all these new players yet Dowell has amassed 8 appearances and 300 minutes. Now admittedly there are only two starts for him, but 6 sub appearances is 6 too many for a lot of supporters.

We don’t understand the fixation with him frankly, especially when things are needing to be changed, and the manager resorts to adding someone else who will not impact the match at all.

We had some talent on the bench, and yet Dowell was the first one to come on.

With a manager thinking this way, is it any wonder we’re struggling?