Barrie McKay’s Ibrox career appears to be in some doubt, with Glasgow Rangers boss Pedro Caixinha sending him to train with the club’s youngsters.
Former Rangers winger Ted McMinn has suggested to the Evening Times that he fears that Barrie McKay’s Ibrox career is about to come to an end, and suggested that he would not be surprised to see the wide-man link up with former boss Mark Warburton at Nottingham Forest.
McKay has been one of brighter prospects to come through the Rangers academy in recent years, and looked destined to become a potential talisman for the side in the future during their promotion-winning campaign under Warburton.
Rangers’ Barrie McKay
However, he struggled to make a major impression in the Scottish Premiership, and the Daily Record reports that he has been sent by Caixinha to train with the development squad, and McMinn suggested that the future is bleak for the 22-year-old if he decides to stay with the Gers.
“I have seen bits and bobs about Andy Halliday and McKay training with the youth team,” he told the Evening Times. “When that starts happening, you haven’t really got much of a future with the club.”
But where next for the youngster? McMinn has suggested that he is incredibly surprised to see that former Light Blues boss Warburton has not made more of an effort to be reunited with some of the players he worked with at Ibrox, and hinted that McKay moving to the City Ground would not be a shock.
“With Warburton going there, you think would he go back to Ibrox and take some of the players he had there? There will be clubs down in England watching him,” he also told the Evening Times.
Nottingham Forest manager Mark Warburton
“I am surprised he hasn’t signed players from Rangers but it is only June and nobody really makes moves at this time,” he went on to add.
Despite McKay’s talent and ability to change games at times, the fact that the Evening Times have confirmed that he has just 12 months left on his contract suggests that his departure this summer would probably be accepted by the Ibrox faithful if Caixinha feels that he has already played his final game for the club.
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