Scottish Premiership giants Rangers reportedly offered £3m to sign centre-back Jake Cooper from Championship outfit Millwall
Millwall stood firm over the summer and refused to let the promising defender Jake Cooper leave for Rangers.
It is well documented that the Glasgow giants wanted to bring Cooper to Ibrox with Steven Gerrard aiming to reinforce a defence that looked shaky almost every week under his predecessors Graeme Murty and Pedro Caixinha.
But according to STV, Millwall rejected Rangers’ £3million bid in July as they were desperate to keep the former Reading man at the Den. Though it would be interesting to find out how Cooper feels about being made to stay at Millwall.
Steven Gerrard is leading a revolution north of the border with Rangers seemingly on the way back to the top. Rangers have been much improved under the former Liverpool captain and are currently ahead of Celtic in the Scottish Premiership table while scoring 13 times in their last four domestic games.
A tilt at the title is certainly a possibility as things stand.
Instead, however, Cooper is instead stuck in the Championship relegation zone. Millwall have picked up just six points so far in 2018/19, having won just one of nine games so far.
And with Connor Goldson, Nikola Katic and Gareth McAuley now at Ibrox, and with Gerrard keen to sign Nottingham Forest loanee Joe Worrall permanently, Cooper’s chance might have passed him by.
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