Former Rangers Striker Is Trying To Bring Premier League Star To Ibrox | OneFootball

Rangers’ transfer window has so far yielded very few results of any real magnitude, while the first friendly also ended in a defeat. So we are not exactly thrilled with how things are going under the window at the moment, and this feeling is shared among a great number of Rangers fans.

However, if there is one mildly positive story, it is Rangers’ ongoing interest in Leicester City’s Conor Coady. Coady could very well become the modern-day David Weir if Rangers can pull this one over the line. Former Rangers striker Jermain Defoe has spoken to the press about this, saying he has spoken to the English defender, and the ex-Wolves stopper did not offer any negativity in response to Defoe’s praise of Ibrox as a potential transfer destination.

Let us make no mistake—Coady is a top-level, experienced Premier League defender. He has 198 appearances at that level, let us just call it 200. This is not somebody who is washed up, nor is he overpriced. He would be a very solid defensive addition for Rangers, and probably the best signing since Weir and Carlos Cuéllar. Unless we have forgotten someone in the post-administration era, and we are not sure that we have.

Coady is a top defender. He might not be a former England international of the highest profile, but he is a level that Rangers clearly need. So far we have only added Max Aarons as a new signing, unless you count Lyall Cameron. The incomings simply have not been enough yet. Coady would be a significant leap.

It would also mark the second Premier League signing that Rangers have made this window, and Ibrox Noise have been on record many times in extolling the virtues of recruiting at that level. Of course, getting marquee Premier League players is not easy for Rangers these days. It is not like the old days, where we could get Weir and Ehiogu—top-level players who made the difference, especially under Walter Smith.

But if we can get Coady, it would be a real flag-bearing, bell-ringing signing. Would it change everything? No—we are not going to be that hysterical. It will not necessarily bring us 56, but it would be the kind of signing we need in order to have any aspirations of achieving it.

So if Defoe’s comments are to be taken seriously, as one source suggests, maybe Coady will come. And we could certainly do with that.