Nowadays, whenever a transfer rumour breaks about a potential Rangers target, the origin is usually in the homeland of the player in question.
It was no different in the case of Joey Veerman when Dutch media outlet Voetball first revealed that we were eyeing up a potential move for the 22-year old youth cap.
A rumoured price tag of £8.5million seemed to rule us out of the bidding with the player himself not impressed at how much Heerenveen were demanding after a £4m bid from Verona was rejected.
Rangers have bid €4.5 million for Heerenveen midfielder Joey Veerman.
That is €1 million less than the offer from Hellas Verona and well short of Heerenveen’s asking price. (De Telegraaf)
— Dutch Football 🇳🇱 (@FootballOranje_) July 15, 2021
However, over the last 24 hours we have seen an increase in speculation that Rangers aren’t out of the running and that an offer has been made for Veerman, as reported by Glasgow Live.
Rangers 'make offer' for Joey Veerman as transfer race for Dutch star takes new twisthttps://t.co/FeecNruYxd pic.twitter.com/2klPXcTrif
— Football Scotland ⚽️🏴 (@Football_Scot) July 15, 2021
Another Twitter transfer site specialising in all things Heerenveen has also claimed that we have made an offer and that our interest is “concrete” with Verona now said to be out of the running after signing a different midfielder from Royal Antwerp:
“Hellas Verona is meanwhile close to the incoming transfer of Martin Hongla, player of Royal Antwerp. He is also a midfielder. Has Verona been transferred or does the interest in Veerman remain? To be continued…
“Rangers FC has made the interest in Joey Veerman concrete and made an initial offer. Interest is growing more and more.”
Rangers FC heeft de interesse in Joey Veerman concreet gemaakt en een eerste bod uitgebracht. De interesse komt meer en meer op gang. Wordt vervolgd…
— SC Heerenveen Transfermarkt (@STransfermarkt) July 14, 2021
Veerman could be the coup of the summer and having saved a fortune by getting top targets Fashion Sakala and John Lundstram in on Bosman deals, there is no reason why we can’t spend big on the promising Dutch star.
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As a more creative midfielder, he is exactly the sort of player that we have been missing for a while, capable of picking holes in packed defences from deep which would take the burden off Steven Davis in the deploying playmaker role.
When Steven Gerrard spoke about “quality and not quantity”, he wasn’t messing about.