Sam Lammers heads to Glasgow to sign four-year Rangers contract
Sam Lammers is set to sign a four-year deal to become the latest Rangers transfer of the summer, Chris Jack reports.
According to the Glasgow Times journalist the Atalanta striker is heading to Glasgow in “the coming days” to become the fourth signing for Michael Beale, who has identified the Dutchman as a “key summer addition” [Scottish Sun, 11 June].
The cost will be over £3million for the 26-year-old who scored once each for Sampdoria and Empoli across a pair of loans last season.
Lammers will join Kieran Dowell, Dujon Sterling and Jack Butland as new additions to the Rangers squad once he signs his contract to 2027 as expected.
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As with the summer business as a whole this deal looks to have moved fast as soon as the green light was given by Gian Piero Gasperini in Bergamo.
Beale has been working on recruitment behind the scenes since before the end of the SPFL season and it looks like he got a number of moves ready to go once his full focus was available to concentrate on transfers.
He clearly sees Lammers as the right profile of player to flourish in his Rangers team based on his style of play, as it can’t be down to his scoring record since moving to Serie A, with just six in all competitions in the past three seasons.
That period included a third loan move to Eintracht Frankfurt, so it is clear that he has not had a settled time in Italy by any means, and the Ibrox boss will no doubt be hoping that if Lammer’s is brought in as a priority and put in a team that suits him he can recapture the form he displayed in the Netherlands earlier in his career.
With Alfredo Morelos gone, Antonio Colak possibly going, and Kemar Roofe impossible to rely on due to injury a lot of the time this is likely only half of the job to make signings at the striker position.
Cyriel Dessers is still on the cards from Cremonese, and the door is surely open for a third if the right deal arrises.
In other Rangers news, Beale can now pounce to make another “absolutely superb” signing after recent developments.