Has reported Forest target Angel Rangel highlighted a completely different side to his game?

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Nottingham Forest are reportedly interested in signing right-back Angel Rangel from Championship rivals Queens Park Rangers.

There has been plenty of focus on Angel Rangel over the last seven days and the veteran defender maintained his place in the spotlight as Queens Park Rangers grabbed a 2-2 draw away at Stoke City on Saturday afternoon.

The 36-year-old’s future is up in the air right now with his short-term contract at QPR set to expire in January. And The Mirror (17 November, page 63) reports that Nottingham Forest are keen to sign him on a free, having missed out after he left Swansea City in the summer.

Now, it barely needs saying that Forest obviously believe that Rangel’s experience and consistency would enhance Aitor Karanka’s back-line, particularly with Saidy Janko, the Porto loanee, doing little to convince of late at right-back.

But Rangel highlighted a completely different side of his game on Saturday in the Potteries – one that often gets overlooked.

For the first time in his 17 year career, which includes 481 club games, Rangel scored a brace. He scored only his 11th goal in English football with a bullet header from an Ebere Eze cross in the first half before securing QPR a point with an angled drive late on.

As a result, only two players in Forest’s squad have scored more than Rangel this season, Joe Lolley and Lewis Grabban. So surely Karanka will be even more keen to secure the veteran’s signature on the back of one of his best displays on British shores.