Alan Hutton has reportedly been lined up for a return to Scottish Premiership giants Rangers should he leave the Championship and Aston Villa.
Could one of Rangers’ favourite sons be on his way back to Ibrox?
A decade after becoming the biggest export in the history of Ibrox when he joined Tottenham Hotspur for £9 million, the Birmingham Mail reports that Alan Hutton has been lined up for an emotional return to where it all began.
Hutton, the Glasgow-born Scotland international who joined Rangers’ famous academy all the way back in the year 2000, is a free agent this summer as things stand with his Aston Villa contract set to expire.
The 33-year-old has been an almost ever-present for Villa in the last year, thriving at right-back and even filling in on the left as they reached the Championship play-off final. But defeat to Fulham at Wembley, and the financial meltdown that has occurred as a result, means Villa can no longer afford to pay Hutton his hefty weekly wage.
But would he be welcomed back at Ibrox?
It seems the Rangers fans are divided. But those who are looking at his age and getting cold feet should consider the fact that Hutton has just enjoyed one of the most impressive seasons of his career and appears to be in the form of his life despite entering the autumn of his playing days.
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