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Ex-Rangers star joins third-tier club in search of first-team football

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Former Rangers winger Gregg Wylde has signed for Scottish third-tier side Clyde as the 28-year-old joins the ranks of Danny Lennon’s team at Broadwood.

The one-time Ibrox winger has joined up with the Scottish League One side until the end of the season as he looks to win a deal on Clydeside.

Having previously turned out for the likes of Rangers, Aberdeen, Plymouth Argyle and most recently Livingston, Clyde are Wylde’s eleventh club and a surprising development in the player’s career.

It is perhaps not the way that Rangers fans envisaged Wylde’s career going after the once explosive winger burst onto the scene at Ibrox.

A product of Rangers’ youth academy, Wylde joined the Rangers youth set-up from Old Firm rivals Celtic as a 14-year-old.

Wylde made his first-team debut as an 18-year-old back in August 2009 and would go on to feature semi-regularly under the management of Rangers legend Walter Smith.

The left-sided winger turned out for Rangers in the Europa League, started the 2011 2-1 League Cup Final win over rivals Celtic and would go on to make 48 appearances for Rangers scoring twice.

Joining up with a Clyde side currently languishing in 8th place in Scottish League One [as of 05/01/20], Gregg Wylde will be hoping to establish himself alongside the likes of David Goodwillie.

Gregg Wylde was a hard-working pacey winger who also laid on 13 assists in his Ibrox career [Transfermarkt] but struggled in a return to the Scottish Premiership. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
The former Dundee United and Blackburn striker also turns out for Clyde after a stuttering career of his own.

Former Rangers star Wylde made his debut for the third-tier Scottish club after coming on as a substitute in their 3-3 draw with Stranraer this weekend.