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Does Eros Grezda have a future at Rangers if Jake Hastie joins?

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Does Eros Grezda have a future at Ibrox side Glasgow Rangers?

26th January 2019, Dens Park, Dundee, Scotland; Ladbrokes Premiership football, Dundee versus Motherwell;  Nathan Ralph of Dundee races past Jake Hastie of Motherwell

Rangers are closing to signing Jake Hastie, according to The Scottish Sun.

The 19-year-old Motherwell winger is on the brink of signing a pre-contract agreement with Rangers.

If true, it’s a brilliant coup for Steven Gerrard, but does it mean the Gers boss has admitted defeat over Eros Grezda?

Grezda, a £2 million summer signing [The Scottish Sun], hasn’t kicked a ball for the Ibrox side in 2019 as of yet, and was left out of Friday’s trip to Hibernian entirely.

The Albanian winger is not injured and played in a behind-close-doors friendly against Livingston earlier this week.

His career at Ibrox already looks close to being over, but the arrival of Hastie would make it nigh-on impossible to come back from.

That is because Gerrard already has Jamie Murphy, Glenn Middleton, Jordan Jones and potentially even Ryan Kent for that left-wing role next season.

Where does Grezda fit in to Gerrard’s plans? The simple answer is that he doesn’t, anda deal for Hastie could effectively be the final nail in his Blues career.

Eros Grezda of Rangers claims for a penalty during the UEFA Europa League Group G match between Rangers and Spartak Moscow at Ibrox Stadium on October 25, 2018 in Glasgow, United Kingdom.