Rangers transfer news: ‘Comprehensive’ update emerges on Scotland hero Lyndon Dykes
Lyndon Dykes can be “comprehensively ruled out” as a Rangers target as Michael Beale is not interested in him, Rangers Review reports.
The 27-year-old scored the first of Scotland’s two late strikes to shock Norway at home in the European qualifier on Saturday (17 June) and has been linked to an Ibrox move this summer [Daily Mail, 19 June].
The QPR man played under Micheal Beale at Loftus Road and is likely to be on the move after failing to agree a new contract [Football League World, 2 June].
Beale is in the market for strikers, having signed Sam Lammers and made a push to add Cyriel Dessers as well, but Rangers Review are unequivocal that Dykes is not in his plans.
Crossed out
Players are always linked to managers they have worked with before, and when they are tipped to move because their contract has only a year left and said manager is signing forwards it all adds up for Dykes.
But it doesn’t look like anything is going to come of it this summer, unless there is a change of heart over the coming weeks, so he can be added to Tasos Douvikas as goal-scorers who appear to very much not be set for Ibrox, for now at least.
Dessers and Josh Maja updates suggest that conversely they are in the frame, but there are difficulties regarding both so Beale looks like he could be forced to wait for now.
Having wrapped up Kieran Dowell, Dujon Sterling and Jack Butland on free transfers in double-quick time, before signing Lammers for around £3million, the manager has got off to a very strong start with his transfer business.
But he is likely to want a lot more through the doors before the new season, and ideally before he starts his preseason work in earnest, so delays on a second striker, among others, will no doubt be a frustration.
In other Rangers news, Tom English has fired back to Celtic fans over the Gers’ strength to take on Brendan Rodgers’ return.