With only hours to go before the deadline, the question on the lips of each and every Rangers supporter is ‘how many players are going to arrive prior to 11pm?’
It can be said with a degree of certainty that at least one new face is going to be posing for photograps in that famous blue shirt before Sunday’s Old Firm derby meeting with Celtic.
Neraysho Kasanwirjo is expected to become a Rangers player imminently.
The Scottish Premiership title hopefuls are likely to tie up a loan deal for the versatile defender, who is free to leave Feyenoord just 18 months after he arrived in a £1.5 million deal from Groningen.
Rangers could also bring in Nedim Bajrami on an initial temporary deal. The Daily Record claims that talks have been held with the skilful Sassuolo ace.
Bajrami, who became a household name for a day or two when scoring a 23 second opener against Italy at Euro 2024, will add extra competition in the wide areas and for the number ten role while offsetting the departures of Scott Wright and the Blackburn Rovers-bound Todd Cantwell.
But with regards to Ibrahim Adel, the Pyramids FC attacker who has also been linked over the last 24 hours or so, the phrase ‘watch this space’ feels like a fitting one at this moment.
Rangers in for Neraysho Kasanwirjo and Nedim Bajrami
Rangers News were told this week by reporter Graeme Bailey that Adel was likely to end up in Spain rather than Scotland. Getafe were closing in.
And we use the past tense of ‘were’ because a proposed switch to the La Liga outfit appears to have collapsed on deadline day.
Getafe were willing to pay a loan fee for Adel, but offered only half of the fee Pyraminds wanted.
“The reason for Pyramids’ rejection of the offer is the sharp disagreement over the financial value of the deal,” a source close to the situation tells Al-Masry Al-Youm. “Getafe submitted an offer worth $500,000 for the loan.
“The Pyramids management saw that this offer does not reflect the true value of the player and the club, as the Sky Blues management wants to obtain one million dollars (loan fee).”
A second chance for Rangers with Ibrahim Adel
Al-Masry Al-Youm add that a final deal would likely have cost Getafe £3.8 million, once Adel had joined the Madrid-based outfit on a permanent basis.
The 23-year-old Egypt international even travelled to Spain for a medical. All those air miles appear to have been in vain, however, though Adel is staying calm in the face of such adversity.
“God is sufficient for me,” Adel writes on his official Instagram account as a long flight back home awaits him. “He is the best disposer of affairs.”
Could Adel perhaps stop off in Glasgow on his way to Egypt?
If Rangers are indeed interested – Philippe Clement’s team are certainly in the market for a right-footed left winger after the hopes of a return to Ibrox for Abdallah Sima went up in smoke this week – then the collapse of his Getafe deal has just opened a window of opportunity in the dying embers of the market.
Adel scored seven goals and set up two more in 23 appearances last season.
