Scottish Premiership goalkeeper Vaclav Hladky has admitted that Steven Gerrard’s Rangers are keen to take him to Ibrox.
St Mirren’s chances of avoiding the drop from the Scottish Premiership could rest solely on whether Vaclav Hladky stays or goes in the January transfer window.
Jim Goodwin’s Buddies are already bottom of the table but they’d be well adrift without a series of heroic displays from their Czech Republic goalkeeper. In fact, St Mirren would have been playing second tier football already if Hladky had not saved a remarkable three penalties in the relegation play-off against Dundee United back in May.
But with the 28-year-old’s contract due to expire at the end of the season, his future clearly lies away from Paisley.
And, speaking to the Daily Record on Tuesday, Hladky dropped a transfer bombshell. He admitted that Rangers have been in touch regarding a potential switch to Ibrox.
Fortunately for everyone connected to St Mirren, a move to the blue half of Glasgow is likely to happen next summer rather than in the winter with the former Slovan Liberec man potentially lined up to replace Wes Foderingham when the long-serving Englishman becomes a free agent in July.
But the prospect of Hladky taking his cat-like reflexes elsewhere is already giving Buddies fans plenty of sleepless nights.
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