Rangers are being heavily linked with a new striker as we look to find someone capable of covering for both Alfredo Morelos and Kemar Roofe, a player who can play without us having to adjust our entire system for.
Those expecting us to go out and spend massive sums of money will be disappointed whoever we are linked with, remember, we are looking for someone to cover, arguably, our best player.
The most recent name is Sunderland’s Ross Stewart, the Loch Ness Drogba, as he has affectionately been christened. At 6ft 2inches tall, the 25-year old has been leading the line in League 1 to good effect scoring 22 goals and providing five assists, with just a year left on his contract it may be that he looks to move on this summer depending on where his side finishes this season.
There can be an element of snobbery towards players from England’s lower leagues but it is th nature of our player trading model that sees us look in these markets, after all, James Tavernier, John Lundstram, Joe Aribo, Leon Balogun and Jon McLaughlin were all signed from these divisions and have done alright – there is talent there if you look for it.
Stewart has also got good experience of the Scottish Premiership, he’s a relatively late bloomer in that he had to drop down to junior football before working his way up the leagues to Ross County where he scored 28 goals and had eight assists in 82 appearances, a decent return at a struggling team, he was also called up to the most recent Scotland squads.
If our own forwards like Tony Weston are deemed to young to support the first-team just now then we have to look at Scottish options like Stewart, it allows us to have a bigger squad in European football, something that has cost us this season a few times in terms of who we have been able to pick.
In the past we had players like Gordon Durie, Billy Dodds and Steven Thompson, unfashionable Scottish strikers who would contribute to the attack, they were never asked or expected to be first choice and neither would Stewart.