Todd Cantwell has made his bed at Rangers, choosing to end his stay in Glasgow to look for a new adventure elsewhere.
After only 18-months at Ibrox, he’s far from outstayed his welcome or grown stale, but it looks like a lot has changed since professing his love for the club only last summer.
After leaving Norwich City and Bournemouth under a cloud, the 26-year old should be looking to get his head down and prove the doubters wrong instead of jumping ship at the first sign of adversity at Rangers.
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Todd Cantwell hasn’t lived up to his own Rangers expectations
Speaking to The Beautiful Game podcast in October 2023, Cantwell discussed a variety of topics and looked like he was here to stay when asked about his decision to join Rangers:
“The moment I arrived to now I feel like I’ve been a Rangers fan my whole life, it’s so weird. It’s honestly so weird. It might sound like ‘he has to say that he plays for them’ but I promise you, however long I play here which as a footballer is out of your control, I’ll always follow Rangers 100%.
“The club has been immensely powerful and it has made me fall in love with football again. There’s expectation, there’s pressure and I love it. I know that me going up there and giving 100% and playing how I want to play, they love it because they love football and they love people who care.”
To go from being a self confessed Rangers fan to wanting to leave in the space of a year is some change of direction.
He talks about expectation and pressure and yet doesn’t seem to want to deal with either.
Cantwell said all the right things in this interview but is he giving 100% now?
Cantwell’s next move will only be a step down from Rangers
Instead of helping the squad in their attempts to qualify for the Champions League, he was sitting at home watching on TV.
With Rangers down to just Tom Lawrence for the number 10 role, Cantwell should have been knocking on Philippe Clement’s door, demanding to be available for selection.
Clement covered for the wantaway playmaker for two weeks and gave him a second chance, a chance that he didn’t take.
There will be other players that the manager has said can leave and they have still been playing.
With only Trabzonspor and a link to Saudi Arabia so far, Cantwell will be learning a harsh lesson about his status in the game.
To demand a transfer with no club lined up has been naïve at best and borderline unprofessional.
His next move will be down the way where there will be less pressure and less expectation.
If anyone comes in for him at all that is.
