This week has shown that Rangers need to strengthen, or at least fill a couple of holes in the starting XI.
The one area that seems to be well served is the middle of defence with Connor Goldson and Calvin Bassey continuing to look like a solid partnership with Filip Helander and Leon Balogun both set to return to action which makes todays transfer news a bit of a surprise.
The 4th Official was one of the first outlets to report on our contract offer for John Souttar and they now claim that we have made a bid to get the Hearts centre-half in early:
”According to multiple sources I have spoken with, Rangers have made a substantial offer to land John Souttar from Hearts in this window.
“This offer is somewhere in the range of £200k-£250k.”
Souttar didn’t show any sign of being under pressure against St Johnstone despite his own support booing him, weirdly, the Hearts fans might be doing us a favour, getting him used to an increased level of scrutiny until he heads along the M8.
The fee that The 4th Official claims we have offered would be about as high as I’d want us to go, all things considered. He’s a good player and will serve us well in the future, I’m just not sure it’s a necessity.
If we can get the deal done now then fine, however, I hope Wilson isn’t spending all his time trying to get Souttar immediately, there are much more pressing areas of concern.