Ibrox side Glasgow Rangers are about to welcome back Andy Halliday.
Rangers are on the cusp of welcoming Andy Halliday back to Ibrox after cutting short his season-long loan at Gabala in Azerbaijan.
Former Gers boss Pedro Caixinha shipped him off to Azerbaijan in the summer, but the Portuguese’s short-term successor Graeme Murty has reversed that decision.
Halliday’s return to Glasgow coincides with the signing of QPR midfielder Sean Goss and you wonder if such a move means that Murty has something else in mind for the 26-year-old.
Goss, as he told Rangers’ TV after joining on Wednesday, is a defensive midfielder with a “nasty side”, but so is the former Middlesbrough talent and, with Ryan Jack also fitting the profile of a no-nonsense destroyer, it seems not only possible, but probable, that Murty will play the returning Gers ace in a different role.
Bob Malcolm, who was Barry Ferguson’s assistant manager at Blackpool when Halliday was there, claimed to The Scottish Herald this week that he and Ferguson believed that the midfielder was best at either left-back or on the left-hand side of an attacking three, not as an anchor in midfield.
And it will be definitely interesting to see if Murty elects to deploy Halliday in either of those two roles.
As a defensive midfielder, it doesn’t make a great deal of sense based on Goss’s arrival and Jack’s presence.
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