Rangers legend Barry Ferguson is impressed by what he’s seen from Mohamed Diomande amid claims that the Nordsjaelland starlet is on his way to the Scottish Premiership giants for a fee of around £4.5 million.
22-year-old Mohamed Diomande is not the first highly-rated African attacker to make his name at Nordsjaelland. And if his spell at Rangers proves to be as successful as Mohamed Kudus’ at Ajax, then Philippe Clement’s side should see plenty of return on their reported £4.5 million investment.
According to Danish publication BT, Rangers have fought off competition from a number of clubs, Diomande leaving Nordsjaelland’s USA-based training camp in order to undergo a medical in Glasgow.
Rangers close in on Mohamed Diomande deal
And while ex-Gers skipper Ferguson is not getting carried away just yet – well-edited YouTube compilations could make the best of us look half-decent – he is excited to see one of the most promising midfield talents in Scandinavia bring his ball-carrying prowess and his impressively well-rounded skillset to Scotland.
“When I knew it was probably going to be happening yesterday, as you do, you go on to YouTube and have a look,” Ferguson tells the Daily Record. “Listen, everybody can look good on YouTube. But from the highlights, he looks as if he has got something about him.
“(Diomande is) certainly a player the manager knows and fancies so interesting to see if it gets done in the next couple of days.”
A new midfielder at Ibrox
Rangers were not expected to bring in a new midfielder this month – the club reportedly rebuffed the chance to bring in Steven Alzate from Brighton earlier in the window – but Diomande is clearly rated highly enough that the Ibrox giants felt this was an opportunity they could not let slip through their fingers.
Tough-tackling and tenacious yet technically gifted too, Diomande has five assists from 21 appearances for Nordsjaelland this season. A tally of nine yellow cards, meanwhile, suggests he won’t need too much time to adapt to the physicality of the Scottish league.
