Rangers waste £10M while Shankland scores at Ibrox for fun | OneFootball

To add insult to the many injuries that Rangers are currently sustaining, was the opening goal yesterday at Ibrox. Yes, Rangers have spent £10 million on a nobody with very little senior experience and who has no goals. Instead of signing the freebie, there would have been Lawrence Shankland. Ibrox Noise promoted that signing for years. We wanted desperately to see Lawrence Shankland in a Rangers shirt. Rangers lose Lawrence Shankland permanently.

Shankland signing

Going back a couple of years, fan favour was heavily endorsing such an addition. Unfortunately, the same fans swayed misguidedly by Shankland’s poor form as a result of being unsettled at Hearts last season, changed their minds and couldn’t have wanted him less if they’d tried. Of course, this season that has changed again.

Once again, like our opinion on Russell Martin from the beginning, Ibrox Noise has never swayed and we always wanted Lawrence Shankland against the grain, even last season. And of course, once again, the majority of fans now would give anything to have had him in our shirt, which will never now happen, unless of course Rangers bid big to Hearts during a transfer window. That saga has dragged on for years. Not going to happen anytime soon.

Mismanagement

But of course, it highlighted once again the astonishing mismanagement at Rangers of just about everything these days. To spend £10 million, the second highest fee in the history of Rangers FC, on a literal nobody who hadn’t scored a senior Premier League goal for Everton in over 20 appearances is absolutely, we would say baffling, but it makes perfect sense, such is the utter astonishingly poor logic of this club and how badly it is run now. Even Russell Martin himself has blasted his own squad, highlighting the disarray.

Instead, of course, of making that move for Shankland, who would have been nothing, a Rangers fan, and of course, extremely experienced in the Scottish Premiership, a perfect signing. So of course we’d avoid that. And it’s a wonder why we’re 10th. The pressure is now so great that even the Independent are reporting Rangers’ growing crisis.

Badly run

Rangers are an astonishingly badly run club, regardless of who the board is, regardless of who the ownership is, regardless of who the manager is, and regardless of who any sporting director might be. But even we didn’t see the level of absolute chaos that we are currently witnessing in Govan. Sky Sports have even noted Martin remains defiant, claiming he enjoys his time, which only fuels more anger.

Shankland, for his grace, did not celebrate his goal with any great fervour yesterday. He did acknowledge the goal, but he didn’t look overly enthused, because he’s a Rangers fan and would love to have played for our club. It’s all he ever wanted. But instead, he’s doing it for Hearts. He’s content there and he is happy there, and he’ll now be getting paid a decent level. But Rangers lose Lawrence Shankland.

But the fact is, he should have been ours, he could have been ours, he put his hat in the Rangers’ ring, he issued many come-and-get-me calls, but Rangers just wouldn’t listen. We much prefer to waste £10 million on a nobody. Nice job.