Jason Cummings scored six in 18 games during a loan spell from Nottingham Forest at Rangers.
Former Rangers striker Jason Cummings has defended his record at Ibrox, telling the Scottish Sun that his goals-per-game ratio was at the Glasgow giants was not to be sniffed at.
It feels a long time now since the 24-year-old was establishing himself as one of the hottest young strikers in British football, becoming the first Hibernian player to hit 20-plus goals in three successive seasons in half a century.
Cummings’ reputation took a battering during that ill-fated move to Nottingham Forest two years ago and, from an outside perspective, he didn’t live up to expectations either during a short-lived loan spell at Rangers in the second half of 2017/18.
In total, the characterful centre-forward netted six times in 18 games for Graeme Murty’s Gers with just two of those coming in 15 Scottish Premiership matches. But Cummings is keen to point out that half of those appearances came from the bench.
If you look at starts alone, Cummings’ record certainly appears far more impressive (6 goals in 9).
“People say I wasn’t that good at Rangers, but if you look at the minutes I played to the goals I scored, there’s nothing more I could have done,” he says perhaps justifiably so.
Cummings is trying to rebuild his reputation at Shrewsbury Town these days after Nottingham Forest agreed to cancel the final year of his City Ground contract. So far, the Scotland international has averaged a goal every 77 minutes for The Shrews, an impressive record which should have fans of the League One club hopeful that the summer signing is about to rediscover his golden touch.
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