Rangers are interested in signing Danilho Doekhi, the player himself confirmed this only last week.
The Vitesse Arnhem skipper is out of contract at the end of the season and any deal for the 23-year old was expected to be a pre-contract agreement, however, a recent report in The Sunday Mail claims that a fee has been set to get a deal secured now.
“MailSport understands the Eredivisie side won’t allow their 23-year-old captain to leave for anything less than £2million in January.”
It’s a big fee to pay for a player we could get for nothing in just a few months time but we need depth as soon as possible because of the injury problems that Filip Helander and Leon Balogun are having plus, if he has been pencilled in to replace Connor Goldson, learning our system and style of play before a season kicks off is never a bad thing rather than being thrown in at the deep end.
Yes, it’s £2m but we have to think what we could get at the other end of any possible contract, he has played a lot of games for a player his age and in his position, that he is captain of Vitesse shows how mature he is too, 6ft 4inch Dutch centre-halves will always be in-demand especially ones as comfortable on the ball as Doekhi who, coincidentally, came through the academy system that we poached assistant manager Dave Vos from.
With the Patterson money in the bank, it makes an awful lot of sense to move now because I’ve got a feeling if we miss out, not only will we regret not signing a player with massive potential for a relatively small fee but miss out on a potential windfall a few years down the line.