Rangers transfer update: £7.5m Cyriel Dessers and Sam Lammers double-deal on cards amid ‘coming days’ Jose Cifuentes update
Rangers are pressing ahead with deals to sign Cyriel Dessers and Sam Lammers for a combined fee of £7.5million, according to The Scottish Sun, potentially saving millions on the pair.
Cremonese had wanted more than than the £6.5million they paid last year for Nigerian striker Dessers alone [Daily Record, 5 June] but with the 28-year-old “keen” on an Ibrox switch he appears to be closing in on a £3.5million move.
The Light Blues are also “stepping up” their plans to sign Dutch forward Lammers who has “impressed” Michael Beale and is available for around £3million, just three years after Atalanta signed him for £8million.
However, while those two deals look to be moving forward it appears the brakes have been stepped on for the long-expected move to sign LAFC midfielder Jose Cifuentes.
The Scottish Sun reports: “Ecuadorian international Jose Cifuentes is NOT expected in Scotland in the coming days, with work still to do before his move is rubber-stamped.”
Pros and cons
Lining up a new strike force is clearly a positive step, and saving millions on a pair of players who have gone for much more in recent memory should be a sign of good negotiating.
But with Lammers being sent out on three consecutive loans and not scoring more than two league goals in any season since the 2018/19 campaign it might be a sign that he isn’t the right man.
The 26-year-old netted 16 that year in the Eredivisie for Heerenveen so clearly knows where the goal is, so Beale must be hoping that it is just misfortune that has seen him struggle to score in Serie A and the Bundesliga since.
Transfer developments have moved fast so far at Ibrox, with Rangers capturing three free transfers before the window has opened in Kieran Dowell, Dujon Sterling and Jack Butland.
But it was always going to be impossible to have an entire summer of smooth sailing, and the Cifuentes deal is starting to feel like an awkward one that takes its time.
Indications are that the 24-year-old is still headed for Glasgow, but the hope that it would be announced within a few days is perhaps wide of the mark.
As long as Beale has identified the right targets it does appear that he may have as many as six new arrivals in situ by the end of the month, which would be pretty impressive going.
In other Rangers news, a current Ibrox ace “will leave” once one of the aforementioned deals is completed.