Rangers boss Mick Beale believes Ibrox starlet Alex Lowry would benefit from a loan spell away from the Glasgow giants with Northampton Town keen to bring him to England’s third tier.
Back in May, after a season interrupted by injury, the Scotland U21 international spoke to Rangers’ official website, with the conversation soon turning to where he felt he was most effective on the football pitch.
“Playing as an attacking midfielder or winger are my best positions,” the stylish, elegant Alex Lowry said at the time. “So I need to play at level (of the first-team stars) and maybe do stuff they don’t do in games to try and get in the team.”
Given that, in the subsequent two months, Beale has succeeded in bringing in two new faces in Kieran Dowell and Abdallah Sima to Ibrox – with Jose Cifuentes also on his way from the MLS – Lowry’s hopes of a bigger role in 2023/24 appear to have diminished considerably.
Alex Lowry could leave Rangers on loan
Dowell, Sima and Cifuentes, after all, will all be looking to nail down a spot in one of Lowry’s preferred spots.
And that’s without mentioning Todd Cantwell; the floppy-haired string-puller who, in some ways, resembles what Lowry could become if he can build on that impressive breakthrough campaign in 2021/22.
Beale rates 20-year-old Lowry very highly. He referred to him as the ‘future of Rangers’ last season. But with senior minutes likely to be hard to come by due to the sudden influx of competition in the attacking areas, the Gers boss is leaning towards sending Lowry out on loan for the first time.
According to the Daily Record, Northampton Town is a potential destination. Cobblers boss Jon Brady is ‘keen’ on the baby-faced playmaker, and Rangers will hope that a spell in England’s League One can impact Lowry’s development like that Notts County stint did for Celtic captain Callum McGregor all those years ago.
‘The future of Rangers’
“He had some really nice moments in the game and moments where he looks very young,” Beale told Rangers Review of Lowry a few months ago.
“I think it’s fair to say he’s got a little bit to do as a young player like most young players. We know that he’s a big player for us for the future.
“There are areas of his game that are outstanding for a young player and there are areas I’d like to see him improve,” Beale added.
“Alex is really heading in the right direction. He hasn’t played much this season under the previous management team but, for me, he is the future of Rangers.”
