Rangers secure Ryan Naderi as immediate permanent signing – German journo | OneFootball

With the twists and turns on Deadline Day very much asunder, it has broken today that Rangers will pay Hansa Rostock around £4M for the immediate permanent Ryan Naderi signing.

Furthermore fans are already reacting suggesting it’s an expensive gamble again, a player who is unproven at this level and that Rostock won the stand off between them and Rangers.

Expensive

If confirmed before the end of play, Naderi will become the most expensive sale ever by the Bundesliga 3. Moreover this eclipses Hendry Blank’s €4M departure in 2024 from Dortmund II to Austria’s Salzburg at age 19.

Want to know how Blank is doing? Crashed and burned. Barely played for the Austrians, managed one assist, and ended up farmed back to Germany.

So it’s not a guarantee that the big bucks are getting Rangers a top player. Second most expensive? Yannik Engelhardt from Freiburg II at €3.8M. He did a bit better at Dusseldorf in Bundesliga II and not too badly in Serie A with Como. He’s in the top tier now with Bundesliga Borussia Monchegladbach and again, doing not bad.

Mixed bag essentially.

Gamble

Naderi is a gamble, and an expensive one. Rangers are praying this investment really is a wise one. It will take this January’s spend to £13M, which is an unprecedented sum in this window.

Moreover we can’t help feeling underwhelmed that our big new star striker is from the German third division. But what choice do we have?

He’s 22, a big guy, and in that division it’s 13 goals and assists in 18. Plus it’s the highest level he’s ever played and he’s miles off a call up at any level, never mind senior.

Fundamentally we’re not excited that we’re spending big on a literal low-league nobody, and can only hope that Danny Rohl knows what he’s doing with this lad.

Additionally Ryan Naderi signing reminds us a bit of the gait of Tore Andre Flo, a lanky big guy who we spent big on. But only time will tell if the saga over Naderi shows that Rohl was right all along and nailed it with a gem of an addition from his homeland.