Alex Lowry January loan exit addressed amid Rangers to Ross County rumours
Alex Lowry is not leaving Rangers for a loan move to Ross County in the January transfer window, according to Mark McDougall.
The 19-year-old has only played 73 minutes of first-team football for the Light Blues this season and speculation had started to generate online that he could be set for a temporary move this month, and that Dingwall would be the location.
But Malky Mackay is reportedly interested in other targets so the prospects of the Gers youngster making the move in the coming days appears to have no legs.
Football Scotland reporter McDougall posted on Twitter on Thursday evening (12 January): “Just to clear up the Alex Lowry rumours that have been floating around.
“He won’t be joining Ross County on loan, their interest is elsewhere.”
Non-starter
Lowry could certainly use some more senior appearances at this stage, and there is a decent argument that he deserves to get them at Rangers.
He’s too good for the Lowland League and he was injured unnecessarily earlier in the season playing for the B team, yet his lack of action for the first team has persisted.
This time last season he broke into Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s side amid Africa Cup of Nations absences and the injury to Ianis Hagi, and looked at home straight away.
He disappeared for the majority of the season all the same before a late-season flurry after the top six split when starters were being rested around the Scottish Cup and Europa League finals, and while he hasn’t been perfect he has certainly shown enough to stake a claim to further involvement.
That is especially true in light of how the side was performing so poorly earlier in the campaign. Fashion Sakala has been unleashed since Michael Beale came in, after being underused by Van Bronckhorst, and it is paying dividends.
Lowry isn’t at the Zambian forward’s level yet, but it is a surprise that he hasn’t been developed more over the past 12-months so a loan in January would probably make more sense than him continuing to play for the reserves.
In other Rangers news, Beale’s two-pronged January transfer pursuit has seen contrasting developments to it.