Rangers might re-sign £6m hero

Glasgow Rangers aren’t losing any time of their efforts to switch head coach Danny Rohl, who’s closing in on a transfer to Austrian facet RB Salzburg.

The Scottish Premiership giants have reportedly agreed a three-year contract with Hearts head coach Derek McInnes, who led his facet to second within the league within the 2025/26 marketing campaign.

After signing Lawrence Shankland on a everlasting deal to bolster the squad, the Mild Blues have gone again to their league rivals to raid them for his or her supervisor.

Which means the Mild Blues have taken the highest goalscorer and the supervisor from the staff that completed one place above them within the desk this season, in an try to enhance their efforts within the title race for subsequent time period.

With McInnes set to link-up with Shankland once more, the Scottish boss also needs to be pushing the membership to signal a brand new winger to help the Scotland worldwide within the last third.

Why Rangers must signal a brand new winger this summer season

The ex-Hearts boss had Alexandros Kyziridis on the wing to supply Shankland with loads of possibilities on the high finish of the pitch, as he created 12 ‘large possibilities’ and seven.86 xA within the Premiership within the 2025/26 marketing campaign.

Kyziridis, who additionally scored 4 objectives in his 38 appearances within the Premiership, offered a constant artistic menace for the Jam Tarts, which meant that the Scottish striker all the time had high quality service to thrive on.

In the meantime, not one of the wingers at Rangers within the 2025/26 marketing campaign created greater than seven ‘large possibilities’ within the Premiership, because the Gers struggled for creativity within the large areas all through the season.

Gassama and Moore each created seven ‘large possibilities’ for the staff, with the latter now returning to Tottenham Hotspur after his mortgage spell, which reveals that Rohl didn’t have anybody on Kyziridis’ stage as a creator.

That’s the reason the Gers should dip into the market so as to add reinforcements within the large division in the course of the summer season switch window, in order that McInnes has the standard that he wants on the wing.

Rangers might signal their very own Alexandros Kyziridis

The Scottish giants have not too long ago been linked with an curiosity in a deal to signal a star who might arrive at Ibrox this summer season because the incoming supervisor’s new model of Kyziridis.

Earlier this month, it was reported that the Gers are discussing the potential for a transfer to convey Vaclav Cerny again for a second spell at Ibrox, after his time on mortgage within the 2024/25 marketing campaign.

The Czechia worldwide joined on mortgage from Wolfsburg below Philippe Clement in 2024 earlier than signing completely for Besiktas in a £6m deal final summer season, and they’re now hoping to convey him again to Glasgow.

Within the Premiership and Europa League throughout his time at Rangers, the left-footed winger created nearly 100 possibilities in 42 begins for the Scottish giants, creating 9 ‘large possibilities’ in complete.

He averaged 2.5 key passes per recreation within the Premiership within the 2024/25 marketing campaign. No Rangers participant created greater than 2.1 key passes per match within the league this time period, and no winger created greater than 1.2 per recreation on common.

Like Kyziridis, Cerny is the kind of winger who can present fixed creativity out large. His teammates know that he’s prone to make one thing occur every time they go him the ball on the flank.

While the skilled ahead is a left-footed proper winger, as an alternative of a right-footed left winger just like the Greek star, he might nonetheless be McInnes personal model of the Hearts man with the standard that he can present within the last third.

Cerny can also be recent off the again of a season with 5 objectives and eight assists in 25 begins within the Turkish Tremendous Lig for Besiktas, which reveals that he has tailored to one more nation and league to supply constant high quality.

Due to this fact, the previous Ibrox loanee could possibly be a dream signing to return in and enhance McInnes’ choices on the wing to make sure that Shankland has sufficient help within the last third within the Premiership subsequent time period.