Four Lads Had A Dream demand Cyriel Dessers and Sam Lammers axed for Rangers clash v Dundee
Official Rangers partner Four Lads Had A Dream have demanded that Cyriel Dessers and Sam Lammers are axed immediately by Philippe Clement.
The Ibrox club are unbeaten since the Belgian manager replaced Michael Beale and head to Scot Foam Stadium with eight first-team players out injured.
But according to Four Lads (1 November), now is the right time to take Lammers and Dessers out of the firing line and put Danilo and Todd Cantwell in their preferred positions because “every fan and their granny can see” the other two aren’t performing well enough right now.
“The first and most obvious matter that has to be attended to is the one that every fan and their granny can see – the Dessers and Lammers situation,” they said.
“Neither have hit the ground running, neither have shown anything that the fans or the manager can cling to and both in truth have become targets for the crowd which is counterproductive all round.
“The contrast in Prague and then again at the weekend when Danilo came on was stark. The Brazilian is a striker who acts on instinct and whose movement in the box is natural and threatening. In short, everything that Dessers lacks. Maybe Dessers would benefit from playing in a pair – who knows – but in the absence of that there should only be one player leading the line for Rangers at present and it isn’t him.
“On to Sam Lammers. At a brief glance he is a player with skill as he twists and turns in tight spaces. All very good but then after a few weeks you realise that he’s twisted and turned, beaten his man four times but hasn’t actually moved anywhere or affected the game. And the last part is key. Lammers can be on the pitch, he can get on the ball but very rarely does he produce anything that actually matters.
“To complicate matters Lammers is also occupying the space that could perhaps be better utilized by Todd Cantwell, a player who is undoubtedly amongst our best but who has suffered from a continual changing of position to accommodate others this season.
“So for me it is time to take Sam Lammers out of the firing line, for the crowd reaction can’t be doing him any good, and give Cantwell a run centrally in that more advanced area of the pitch. It just makes sense.”
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Every fan and their granny can see exactly what needs to be done and it feels like Clement knows that too, but the lack of options is making it difficult for him to pull the trigger.
The best trait Dessers and Lammers have had so far at Ibrox is the fact they’ve been available for basically every game, which means they’ve racked up plenty of game time.
However, they’ve done next to nothing with it and the time has surely come for different players to be given opportunities in the starting lineup instead.
If we can get Cantwell playing centrally behind Danilo it will greatly increase our creativity and goal threat, and we can give players like young Ross McCausland a chance to make an impact in the first-team.
Neither player would be able to complain about losing their place and while we want them to make it, obviously, they have to give us something to cling on to and they haven’t been. It’s time for change.
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