Wes Foderingham details struggles with Rangers and Gerrard: ‘I found it quite strange…’
Wes Foderingham has admitted he found it strange when Rangers boss Steven Gerrard claimed the keeper “wasn’t his type of person”.
The former Gers’ stopper believes it was always the club’s intention to sell him after the arrival of Allan McGregor at Ibrox.
The 29-year-old was frozen out of the first team and believes that a high asking price is the reason he wasn’t allowed to leave at the time.
Foderingham admitted that he thought he would be sold, but the asking price was never a realistic figure set by the club.
“When McGregor came in it was always the club’s intention to sell me that summer,” Foderingham told Open Goal.
“He just said to me, ‘You’re not my type of person’, and I was thinking, ‘Okay’. I found it quite strange.”
Foderingham’s contract has recently expired, and these comments prove that there was no real chance of the stopper getting back into the first-team picture.
The 29-year-old only made four appearances for the Light Blues since the start of 2019, and a keeper of his quality will have been growing frustrated at the lack of opportunities.
Gerrard may not have been on the same page as the stopper, but he wanted to keep him around just in case McGregor was not available.
Either way, Foderingham has got out and it doesn’t look like he’s holding back despite spending five years at Ibrox.
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