Jermain Defoe joined Steven Gerrard’s Ibrox club Glasgow Rangers on loan from Bournemouth in the January transfer window.
Jermain Defoe of Rangers
Rangers suffered a disappointing defeat at the hands of Aberdeen this week, as Steven Gerrard’s side lost 2-0 at Ibrox on Tuesday evening.
It was the Scottish Cup quarter-final replay, and the loss will have come as a bitter disappointment to Rangers and to the Ibrox faithful.
With Celtic having already won the Scottish League Cup and pretty much set to clinch the Scottish Premiership title this season, it does look like Rangers will end the season without winning any major silverware.
Jermain Defoe, though, still harbour hopes of winning the title, as the former West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur striker suggested after the defeat.
The 36-year-old striker, signed on loan from Bournemouth in the January transfer window, suggested after the defeat that the Gers can still catch Celtic at the top of the Scottish Premiership table, and underlined the importance of bouncing back, as quoted in The Daily Record.
Kilmarnock striker Kris Boyd, who had two separate spells at Rangers, has given his take on Defoe’s comments in The Scottish Sun, suggesting that the Ibrox faithful do not want to hear what he was saying.
Boyd wrote in The Scottish Sun: “Defoe probably thought he was saying what fans wanted to hear. Trust me, it wasn’t.
“This isn’t Bournemouth, West Ham, Portsmouth or even Tottenham he’s playing for now. It’s Rangers, where these sorts of results are just not on.”
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