Karlan Grant scored yet another Championship goal for Huddersfield Town on Saturday as he shows Steven Gerrard’s Rangers what they are missing.
With Danny Cowley transforming Huddersfield Town from relegation candidates into the Championship’s form team, the last thing they needed was fresh speculation surrounding one of his star players.
Thanks to Karlan Grant, the previously toothless Terriers have some much-needed bite these days with the in-form striker netting his ninth goal in 15 league games on Saturday. It was the winner too, securing an impressive triumph away at Brentford.
The downside, however, is that holding onto Grant beyond the January transfer window may be easier said than done. The Sun (4 October, page 61) reports that Wolverhampton Wanderers want to bring the former Charlton Athletic star back to the Premier League for a fee likely to be in excess of £10 million.
Huddersfield will be desperate to hang onto a man who’s scored 13 league goals in 24 games since moving to Yorkshire in January. Though, if it’s any consolation, they already look guaranteed to make a huge profit on a player they paid just £2 million for ten months ago.
What could have been
And with Grant’s price-tag and his goals tally rising by the week, he is quickly becoming like one-that-got-away for Rangers.
According to talkSPORT, Steven Gerrard’s side were hoping to snap up the London-born poacher all the way back in the winter when he was still banging in the goals for third-tier Charlton. Grant was worth just £2 million back then, at least £8 million less than the fee he would command 12 months on.
Yet it almost goes without saying that it’s not all bad at Ibrox right now. Far from it.
Forget the ongoing speculation, 20-goal talisman Alfredo Morelos isn’t going anywhere in January and, in the evergreen Jermain Defoe, Rangers have a brilliant back-up striker waiting in the wings too.
But Grant will still feel like an opportunity missed, from both a sporting and financial perspective, if he becomes Wolves’ latest big-money signing in the New Year.
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