The most expensive flop in history – £4m and a title up in smoke

We’ve had our fair share of flops as Rangers fans with the years preceding Steven Gerrard’s arrival littered with costly errors.

However, you’d have to look pretty hard to find one as bad as Shane Duffy.

A loan fee of £2million just to borrow him for the season, no option to buy, nothing, Roughly the same it cost us for Niko Katic or Borna Barisic and not far off what we paid for Filip Helander.

And then there is his wages which Celtic are paying 100% of for his ill-fated time in Scotland.

With Sportrac reporting that the Republic of Ireland international is on £40,000 per week, the total bill comes to around £4m – worth every penny to the Rangers support!

The famous “what a window” tweet really came to bite them on the backside with a fortune shelled out for little return, for example, £10m was spent on Vasilis Barkas and Albian Ajeti and the pair of them are rarely – if ever – seen in the starting XI.

But it is Duffy that has been the poster boy for a doomed campaign, he was going to score more goals than he conceded, he was going to cause chaos in the opposite box, he was here for 10-in-a-row, spoiler alert – he wasn’t.

Scoring a couple of early goals glossed over shaky defensive performances, anybody who has ever watched Duffy could tell you he was a competent siege defender but if you want him to be someone who brings the ball out of defence to start attacks or cover large areas of space then you might be in trouble, much to our hilarity.

Score more goals than he conceded? He cost them more goals than he scored!

Tore Andre Flo was a pricey £12m but at least he left with a goal every two games and we got £7m back when he left, Duffy was £4m and cost them their “holy grail”.