Rangers haven’t had a great deal of success in the transfer market in terms of signing players who can stay fit and make a contribution.
Gambles were made in the past with good players like Kemar Roofe and Filip Helander however, aside from one (wonderful) season, they were costly experiments.
Ross Stewart was heavily linked but now looks like a bullet dodged with the Scotland international making former Rangers pair Roofe and Helander look like ever presents.
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Ross Stewart injury jinx continues after Rangers interest
Speaking ahead of their trip along the south coast to face Brighton, Southampton manager Russell Martin gave an update on Stewart after missing the last two months:
Ross and Juan (Larius) are not going to be ready this side of Christmas unfortunately. They’ve had such bad luck. I don’t really know what else to say about these two other than that it’s not through a lack of hard work or a lack of expertise in the medical department.
Sometimes it’s just bad luck, it really is, and we’ve seen so many consultants about both of them, we have people working with them. We’ve sent them to different places and now we just need to try and get them ready again for the next challenge. Ross will be sooner back than Juan. It’s just a really upsetting part of the game unfortunately when people have such misfortune and a terrible time with injury.
We’ll do it all we can and the guys are in as good a place as they can be mentally in terms of where they’re at and we just have to make sure of that.
Rangers must avoid players with questionable medical files
Since signing for £10m in the 2023 summer transfer window, Stewart has barely played a handful of games in terms of 90 minute appearances.
Rangers have learned the hard way, even after Clement made changes behind the scenes at Auchenhowie in terms of staff, facilities, procedures and protocols, that injury prone players can never truly be cured.
Individuals like Rabbi Matondo and Ridvan Yilmaz are highly rated by the manager, but his determination to have a fully fit and resilient squad means that they will be allowed to leave if a suitable offer is made for them.
Shopping on a tight budget, Rangers can’t afford to make the same mistakes as they did in the past, they have been unlucky with Danilo, but Southampton signed Stewart off the back of a long term injury and had plenty of warning.
