This time last year Ross Wilson would have been putting together the finer details to the offers to sign a host of transfer targets, managing to get both Scott Wright and Jack Simpson in early to help get 55 over the line.
One player who we had to wait until the summer to arrive was Nnamdi Ofoborh, the Nigerian youth international who was signed from Bournemouth on a pre-contract agreement before being immediately shipped out on loan by his club to Wycombe Wanderers before injury cut short his time on the pitch.
Unfortunately, his year hasn’t got much better after his arrival and pre-season training assessments picked up a heart issue which, as revealed by Giovanni van Bronckhorst to Rangers TV, is still under investigation:
“At the moment, he’s still being tested.
“I spoke with him when I arrived and we just have to wait until he sees the doctors and the results and we can go from there.”
“But, so far, nothing is decided.”
We obviously identified Ofoborh as a player who could play a similar role to that of Glen Kamara given some of the comparisons before he joined us, with the system that GvB has shifted to he would have been perfect in the games where we needed more protection.
The biggest concern is obviously his long-term health, but at just 22-years old, he should be given every opportunity to return to competitive action, it’s not like a knee injury or hamstring pull that we would be able to get updates on how a player is progressing either, it sounds very much like he will be given the thumbs up and told that he is ok to play again or that he has to retire at a painfully young age, there will be no middle ground.
Rangers can’t stand still though and he will have to sit and watch as we bring other midfielders in, we’ve had players before like Seb Rozental, Daniel Prodan and Oleg Kutznetsov who never got to fully display their talents at the club, I just hope that Ofoborh isn’t the next.