Kyle Lafferty scored just seven goals since returning to Scottish Premiership giants Rangers from Hearts.
In an ideal world, Kyle Lafferty would be preparing for another season in the famous blue shirt of his boyhood club Rangers. Instead, the Belfast Telegraph reports that the veteran striker is being forced out of Ibrox this summer.
And he really only has himself to blame.
Lafferty never hid the fact that dreamt of a second spell at Rangers even while banging in the goals at Scottish Premiership rivals Hearts. But after sealing that emotional £500,000 return in the summer of 2018 (Glasgow Evening Times), the goals dried up. Lafferty scored just seven goals under Steven Gerrard and by the end of the season, he had fallen to third choice in the pecking order.
The Northern Ireland international was recently left out of Rangers’ pre-season training camp in Portugal and it is reported that he has been told in no uncertain terms that his Ibrox career is over.
Lafferty would have ‘loved’ to stay and fight for his place. But the Belfast Telegraph believes that this decision has been taken out of his hands.
Fortunately, a new adventure awaits for a well-travelled centre-forward who has plied his trade in Italy, Switzerland, Turkey and, erm, Norwich.
Cypriot outfit Apollon Limassol are battling clubs in Qatar and Saudi Arabia for his signature and the prospect of a new life in a whole new country should soften the blow of Lafferty’s inevitable Rangers goodbye.
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