Joe Aribo took part in training on Saturday, ahead of Rangers’ Scottish Premiership fixture against Hamilton.
The midfielder signed for the Gers from Charlton in the summer, despite numerous offers from elsewhere [Express].
By and large, he’s enjoyed an impressive start to life in Glasgow. However, his progress was checked by Ricki Lamie’s elbow during the first half of the recent League Cup quarter-final against Livingston.
Aribo was caught on the head and the deep resulting cut required 20 stitches.
The injury has kept him out of the last two matches, at home to Aberdeen in the league and away to Young Boys in the Europa League.
However, it looks as though he could be poised to return to action earlier than initially expected.
Having previously all but ruled him out until after the international break, Steven Gerrard said on Friday that his man had a ‘small outside chance’ of making the Accies fixture depending on how things looked on Saturday.
Rangers midfielder Aribo spotted in full training
With that comment in mind, the signs look good for Aribo, who can be seen in the training gallery on Rangers.co.uk taking what appears to be a full part in today’s session.
Crucially, he’s no longer sporting a rugby-style head guard, but instead, what appears to be a reinforced headband with bandaging underneath.
It looks like a much more match-suitable protective measure, which could be bad news for Andy King.
