With Davis and Defoe comes quality in abundance, but it also brings in something Rangers have badly missed on and off the pitch. Experience.
From the struggle to kill teams off to our disciplinary problems, our fledging young side has often struggled this season. But they’ve kept in the fight and dragged us to January.
If you didn’t already know we weren’t, you’d think we’re 40 points clear the way our rivals are getting on. The reality is there is much work to be done, and Gerrard has identified securing experience as part of that.
If these deals go through – which it is being reported they will – Rangers sign two players with years of Premier League experience. In Davis, Rangers are signing a leader, fighter and playmaker who is a former Rangers captain.
In Defoe, we’re getting a lethal goalscorer and iconic Premier League forward.
Experience could make vital difference – on and off pitch
Right now, the Rangers squad’s average age sits at 27. Prior to this interest we really only had two or three senior players in the first team. Now we have them right across the squad. McGregor (36) is perhaps the only one who’s been available all season too.
We signed McAuley (39) after the window had shut (and we’d already qualified for Europe), and Lee Wallace and Dorrans (both 31) haven’t been in the team all year. For whatever reasons. Kyle Lafferty (also 31) has also struggled to make an impact, if not for the want of trying.
But in McGregor, McAuley, Davis and Defoe, you have four players of the highest quality and experience.
And to win titles you need those wily old heads to get us over the line. But more than just be effective on the pitch, their experience will be invaluable off it too.
