Scottish Premiership outfit Rangers were expected to sign a left winger in January…but will bring back Michael O’Halloran from St Johnstone instead.
Pedro Caixinha’s decisions in the transfer market left a lot to be desired but the former Rangers boss’ biggest error might have come when he shipped out Michael O’Halloran.
For whatever reason, Caixinha did not believe the winger was worthy of Rangers, a point he made very clear and very publically on more than one occasion. In the end, O’Halloran was forced to return to former club St Johnstone in the summer with the now-departed tactician refusing to even consider him as part of his first-team squad.
Though it speaks volumes of O’Halloran’s performances at St Johnstone that their manager, Tommy Wright, has admitted that Rangers want the 26-year-old to return to Ibrox when his loan spell at McDiarmid Park comes to an end in January, as reported by the Daily Record.
Understandably, Wright would love to keep hold of his talisman, who won the Scottish Premiership’s Player of the Month award in August. But the former Bolton Wanderers man’s future appears to lie in Glasgow.
Whether this is an indication of Rangers’ January transfer plans, however, remains to be seen. The Gers have been looking for a player to take up that left wing position for a number of months but, with Lewis Morgan set for Celtic and Jamie Walker seemingly unlikely to arrive, you wonder whether this has sparked the club’s decision to hand O’Halloran a second chance.
Capable of playing on either flank, the £500,000 2016 signing would immediately fill a gap in Rangers’ squad – one that was expected to be plugged by a new signing.
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