Scottish Premiership side Rangers are understood to be looking at signing Dwight Pascal from relegated League Two club Barnet.
Unlike Jermain Defoe, Lucas Leiva and Martin Skrtel – the big names who have been lined with Rangers this summer – the Ibrox faithful will be far less familiar with the club’s latest reported target.
But who better to explain the youngster’s qualities than his former manager Underhill, Martin Allen?
Back in November 2016, Pascal made his Barnet debut in an EFL Cup clash with Peterborough United. What is so remarkable about that you ask? Well, he was just 15 years of age and the youngest player in his club’s history.
“His school-mates will have a lot to talk to him about tomorrow,” ‘Mad Dog’ Martin Allen said of Pascal in quotes reported by Get West London.
“He is 15 and certainly didn’t look out of place. I certainly wasn’t thinking at half-time or at 70 minutes I need to get him off because he just kept going on and on and on right through to the end.
“He is a tenacious character and good technically. I’m not sure if he is a lovely lad because I don’t really know him that well yet, but what I do know is he is a good player.”
Considering that Steven Gerrard’s albeit limited managerial roots come in youth team football, where he did a sterling job with Liverpool’s U18s, Pascal could justifiably believe that the 37-year-old is the man to take his promising career to the next level.
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