Player to sign 4.5-year Rangers deal at eleventh hour as deadline approaches – report
Scott Wright is set to sign a four-and-a-half-year contract at Rangers after a deadline day switch was agreed with Aberdeen, according to PA journalist Andy Newport.
Writing on his personal Twitter account on Monday, just hours before the 11pm transfer deadline in Scotland, Newport reported that the agreement with Aberdeen sees the North-East club get a £150,000 discount on Ross McCrorie, who joins the Dons on a loan-to-buy basis last year.
Newport adds that Brandon Barker is set to join Oxford United on loan in a flurry of late transfer activity at Ibrox.
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Rangers have faith
It’s a long contract for Wright and that suggests that Steven Gerrard and Ross Wilson have a lot of faith in the attacking midfielder as he heads to Ibrox for an eleventh-hour transfer.
Wright has scored two goals and supplied five assists in 20 appearances across all competitions for the Dons this season.
He missed a good chunk of November and December with a hernia but since then, he’s re-established himself as a key player in Derek McInnes’ squad.
There’s clearly a lot of talent in Wright and we’re delighted that will benefit Rangers in the coming years and not the Dons, whose fans haven’t reacted at all well to the midfielder’s move to Glasgow.
It’s best for everyone that Wright’s move to Rangers went through on deadline day rather than him waiting for the summer after a pre-contract deal was agreed in January.
If his form dropped a tiny but then he could have found himself dropped from McInnes’ squad and that would have hurt him a lot in terms of his development.
That won’t happen now, thankfully.
In other Rangers news, the Gers are set to announce another midfielder’s move to Ibrox.