However, Middleton, who reunites with Graeme Murty at Rangers, has no buy-back clause in his Ibrox contract.
Daniel Farke has revealed he will continue to monitor Glenn Middleton’s progress – despite sanctioning the winger’s sale to Glasgow Rangers earlier this week.
The boyhood Rangers fan has signed a two-and-a-half year deal at Ibrox, where he reunites with his former Norwich City academy manager Graeme Murty.
Middleton’s move prompted a strong reaction from many Norwich supporters, however, they may not have seen the last of the Scottish teenager after Farke left the door open to a return to Carrow Road once he’s developed at Rangers.
Speaking to Pink Un on Friday, the Canaries boss said of the Gers’ newest recruit – whose contract does not contain a buy-back clause: “Glenn is a really talented player, and a really good guy.
“When we have to sell, sometimes, players from a financial point of view, my first view will always be to have an eye on our academy. [But] when you want to be successful, I am not naive, then sometimes you need to add some quality. We have several really good lads in this area on the pitch. And for that, we got the feeling, okay, it’s perhaps a bit too difficult right now for Glenn to be in the competition on the wing.
“I think it was a really good opportunity for him to join, in such a young age, such a giant in Scottish football. It was an unbelievable chance for him and for that he wanted to go. We wish him all the best I think it’s a good step for his career but I think it’s also important that we will have an eye on him further on, [to see] how he develops.
“I think for short-term it would be a bit too early to have him together with us because the competition is too high, but I wouldn’t say there’s no possibility for [Middleton to] return anyhow, [at any point] in his career.
“And we’ll always have an eye on lads like him because it’s always good when you have an eye perhaps for players who were in your own academy and are perhaps, at this moment, [are] not the best fit or not on this level that they are able to help the team.
“But then perhaps after developing for one, two, three years [there will be] an opportunity to get him back and we will follow his career 100 per cent.”
As well as Murty, Rangers’ manager until the end of the season, Middleton joins Graham Dorrans and Russell Martin at Ibrox, after the pair made the same move last summer and last month, respectively.
Middleton, who was born south of the border in Northampton, was a regular in Norwich City’s Under-23s despite having only turned 18 at the start of January.
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