Rangers were heavily linked with a move to Aberdeen striker Bojan Miovski in the January transfer window as Philippe Clement now opens up on his admiration for the £8 million-rated striker.
As the Montenegrin marksman held off Connor Goldson and flicked an inventive finish past Jack Butland on the stroke of half-time – Rangers welcoming Aberdeen to Ibrox in Neil Warnock’s Scottish Premiership debut – Bojan Miovski’s 20th goal of the season had a real ‘look at what you could have won’ vibe to it.
According to The Sun, Rangers are big admirers of the Dons talisman, but there was no deal to be done in the January window.
And on a night in which Cyriel Dessers reverted to his Mick Beale-era form – snatching at chances in a wasteful display – Miovski’s dead-eyed ruthlessness at the other end of the pitch certainly strengthened Warnock’s claims that Aberdeen have the finest striker in Scottish football at their disposal.
Bojan Miovski hits 20 in Rangers clash
Clement did not go quite that far. But he did speak out on the cold-blooded mercilessness of a man who has mustered nearly double Dessers’ own goal tally in the same number of games (35).
“We played a really good game today. A really dominant game,” Clement said at full-time. “But these are the kind of games you have in a season when the circumstances are not on your side. You totally dominate the first-half, you have the chances to score more than one.
“And then you have this one moment, and it is the quality of Miovski. He doesn’t need much to score goals.”
Clement ruins Warnock’s Scotland bow
According to Sky Sports, Aberdeen now value Miovski – who set them back less than £600,000 when joining from MTK Budapest in the summer of 2022 – at around £8 million. Should he join a Rangers or a Celtic, later down the line, he would become the most expensive player ever to leave one Premiership outfit for another.
Rangers did survive that Miovski-inspired scare, however, the outstanding Todd Cantwell firing home a second half winner as Clement’s title-chasing team ensuring a defeat for Warnock on his Scottish football debut.
This is the first time the 75-year-old has been on the losing side in his first game in charge of a new team since 1997.
