Scottish Premiership giants Rangers reportedly want to bring Ross McCormack back to Ibrox from Championship outfit Aston Villa.
Kyle Lafferty is not the only former Rangers striker being linked with an eye-catching return to Ibrox before the end of August.
In one of the summer’s most intriguing rumours so far, TEAMtalk claim that Rangers are keen to bring none other than Ross McCormack back to the Scottish Premiership with Aston Villa having told the striker to leave on loan.
It has been twelve years since McCormack left Rangers and now would perhaps be the oddest time to try to bring him back. The 31-year-old was prolific in spells at Cardiff City, Leeds United and Fulham but his reputation has crumbled on the back of a disastrous £12 million move to Aston Villa in 2016.
Mccormack scored just three goals in 20 games for The Villans and a strained relationship with manager Steve Bruce means he hasn’t featured for the Midland giants since September of last year.
So Rangers would be taking a massive risk, perhaps the biggest since Steven Gerrard took over, bringing in a £40,000 a week centre-forward who has endured the worst two years of his entire career.
On the other hand, McCormack could thrive and be given a new lease of life at Rangers. He produced a timely reminder of his qualities with 13 goals in a brilliant loan spell at Australian outfit Melbourne Victory last season and a similar impact at Rangers could turn Gerrard’s ambitious outfit into genuine title defenders.
He has the technique and the class to be the best forward in the Scottish Premiership.
Though there’s no way of knowing which McCormack will turn up.
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