Dunfermline manager Peter Grant has insisted it was “worth waiting” to land former Rangers midfielder Graham Dorrans after he was reunited with the veteran at East End Park – and confessed the ex-Scotland international has shown a “great eagerness” to join the Pars after his return from Australia.
Dorrans is back in Scotland following a spell Down Under with Western Sydney Wanderers, signing for the Championship after stints training with former club Dundee and ex-Rangers teammate Russell Martin’s MK Dons.
After being in discussions with Dorrans for a “little while” Grant finally got his man and the Dunfermline boss is delighted to link up with Dorrans after previously working together at West Brom, saying: “I have always said it is worth waiting on when you are looking for quality.
“We got an opportunity and have been speaking to Graham for a little while now. We had a rough idea that he was coming back and I was involved in taking him down in the first place to West Brom, so I have known him a long time.
“I had an inkling that his daughter had not settled in Australia so once I got the opportunity to take the job, here he showed a great eagerness to come. His eagerness was probably ahead of mine because I wanted to make sure that he was making the right decision.
“Sometimes you jump into things just to get straight back and I think for us it was going to be important that he wanted to come here but looked about.
“He has that much quality I knew that there would be other clubs interested.”
Dorrans was joined at East End Park this week by another ex-Rangers player in Rhys Breen after the defender’s loan spell with the Gers’ partner club Orange County was cut short to allow him to join the Pars permanently.
Rangers Academy star Kai Kennedy is also on loan with Dunfermline having joined the Fifers last week on a season-long deal.
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