Rangers must address out-of-contract youth team players
Much has been made of Rangers potentially losing some of their key first-team players in the summer of 2023 with Alfredo Morelos and Ryan Kent the two big names out of contract.
Scott Arfield, Ryan Jack and Allan McGregor are a few of the other notable names who will see their deals at Ibrox come to a close over the next year.
However, Ross Wilson should be focussing on a problem which has potentially gone unnoticed at Ibrox. Rangers B team have a number of players out on loan who are out of contract in the summer, along with eleven of the current B team who see their current deals come to a close.
There, of course, are going to be a number of those players who won’t go on to make an impact for Rangers but with five players currently out on loan who are set to leave the club, it does feel as if Rangers aren’t making the most out of some of their youth products.
Tony Weston, Kai Kennedy, Harley Ewen, Kane Ritchie-Hosler and Murray Miller are currently all out on loan and see their deals end at the end of the season.
It is likely a number of these youngsters will depart Ibrox for free and it begs the question, is the academy producing enough at the moment? Considering the number of youngsters the club have on their books, better decisions have to be made in judging some of their youth players.
Loaning out players and then letting them go for free just doesn’t seem like a smart way of running things. Considering the number of players in the academy, Rangers should be looking to use their youth system as a way of increasing profit.
Another mass exodus is likely to occur over the course of the summer on the academy front and surely out of the players that will leave, one or two could have earnt the Gers a pretty penny.
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