Thelwell’s £25M delusion over Chermiti is Rangers’ biggest transfer mistake | OneFootball

The vanity of Kevin Thelwell

Rangers fans can see straight through Kevin Thelwell’s latest Rangers transfer mistake. His decision to bring Youssef Chermiti to Ibrox for almost £10 million shows the same blind arrogance that ruined Everton’s recruitment. He already signed Chermiti once at Goodison Park for around £15 million. It failed badly. The striker struggled to score, struggled to adapt, and quickly vanished from the Premier League scene. Then Thelwell did the unthinkable. He brought the same failed project to Rangers and called it ambition. That is not ambition. That is desperation.

Proof of ego over logic

Thelwell has turned the Rangers transfer mistake into a personal crusade. Rather than learn from failure, he doubled down on it. He wants to prove his analytics model right and use Rangers as his testing ground. It is not about what the team needs. It is about what he wants to justify. Chermiti fits his textbook obsession. Young, raw, and sold as “high potential”. Those phrases are meaningless when the player cannot perform. Supporters were promised a powerful forward who could replace the goals lost since Alfredo Morelos left. Instead, they got a slow learner who looks miles off the level required. Everton learned this lesson first. Now Rangers are paying for it again.

Silence from the top

The worst part of this Rangers transfer mistake is how nobody inside the club challenges it. Andrew Cavenagh stays quiet. Patrick Stewart nods along. The recruitment team rubber-stamps another multi-million-pound gamble while supporters watch the team sink. Every week without progress adds pressure, yet there is no accountability. Thelwell hides behind buzzwords about “development” and “market value”. The truth is simple. He wasted a huge sum on a player already proven not to deliver. He did it once in England and again in Scotland. This is what happens when data obsession replaces football sense. The figures might impress a boardroom but they do not win trophies.

A warning for Rangers

Thelwell’s ego has become a warning sign for the entire club. Fans are tired of watching expensive experiments that never work. Reports on Thelwell’s role at Rangers confirm that he still controls transfers almost entirely unchecked. The Scotsman analysis exposed the scale of the gamble. Even Training Ground Guru questioned his judgement after promoting his son into key roles. If the board refuses to stop him, the same cycle will repeat. Rangers will keep spending money on theory while the trophies go elsewhere.