Brentford striker Ivan Toney once held talks with Rangers and is now being valued at £65m amid links to Chelsea, Arsenal and Spurs.
The England international striker, 27, may well be serving an eight-month suspension for breaches of FA betting rules but there remains much chatter around his future in the press.
It also hasn’t stopped transfer journalist Fabrizio Romano from claiming that Brentford could stand to bank over six times as much as they paid for Ivan Toney when the striker returns.
Speaking to the Debrief Podcast, Romano claimed “a deal could be done” for the former Peterborough striker around the £65m mark as several of the Premier League’s top clubs reportedly watch on.
The Metro claim that Chelsea, Arsenal and Spurs are all interested in Ivan Toney with the striker set to return to action from January 17th.
Ivan Toney almost signed for Rangers
These Ivan Toney links will have Rangers fans talking after the striker revealed in a recent interview just how close he was to signing for the Ibrox side.
Back in 2020 both Rangers and Old Firm rivals Celtic were strongly linked with a move for Ivan Toney with the Parkhead side appearing to have the upper hand in the press.
But as Ivan Toney himself explained to Steven Bartlett on Diary of a CEO, it’s the blue side of Glasgow he almost joined with only fierce competition in the frontline preventing a deal being struck.
“I did speak to other clubs (before moving to Brentford,” said Toney. “I actually went up to Rangers. I spoke with the manager there, which was Steven Gerrard at the time.
“They had two strikers at the time and they were looking to get another one in, so that would have been like four strikers and the formation they played, the majority of the time, was one striker up top.”
Brentford would strike a £5m rising to £10m deal to sign Ivan Toney from League One Peterborough with the striker firing the club to Premier League promotion.
Before his ban for betting offences, the striker had gone from strength-to-strength in the English top flight and was even capped for the Three Lions against Ukraine in March this year.
