Rangers are forever being linked with centre-forwards.
The addition of Kemar Roofe this week might stem the tide of speculation about signing another striker, even if Alfredo Morelos leaves.
But for the most part, it seems like Rangers have been linked to quite a lot of front men over the past, say, two years or so.
Sometimes it’s a pretty big name – remember Michy Batshuayi was on the Ibrox club’s radar at one point? – and other times it’s a low-profile player who’s killing it in the lower tiers of Scottish football, like Lawrence Shankland.
One other lesser-known attacker linked with a move to the light Blues over the past 12 months was Kevin Nisbet and maybe, just maybe, the Gers will regret not getting him.
Back in November of last year, The Glasgow Evening Times reported that Steven Gerrard was keeping an eye on the 23-year-old striker, who had already exceeded the 20-goal mark for Dunfermline at that early point of the season.
A move to Glasgow never materialised, but a transfer did eventually happen for Nisbet after joining Hibernian earlier this summer – and for only £250,000.
And somewhat painfully for Rangers, Nisbet scored a hat-trick on his second-ever top-flight appearance, bagging three times in yesterday’s 4-1 win away to Livingston.
It’s early days of course, and he might not score again until December maybe, but it’s equally as possible that he tears the Premiership to shreds this season and if he does, the Bears could and probably should regret not taking a £250,000 punt.
By May, that could look like the bargain of this summer for Hibs.
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