Leeds United striker Joe Gelhardt paramount to Philippe Clement at Rangers as transfer update emerges
The Liverpool born Leeds United striker Joe Gelhardt has been linked with a move to Rangers in the January transfer window.
According to the Daily Mail [8 January], Celtic are also keeping tabs on the 21-year-old who has fallen down the pecking order at Elland Road.
Manager Daniel Farke has other attacking options he fancies over Gelhardt, which means a January exit could be on the cards.
The goal he scores, as seen in the footage shared above, showcases just why he’ll be an ideal signing for Philippe Clement.
He receives the ball and collects it so calmly under pressure, with an impressive first touch he runs with it and sets it up in a position where he can score from the edge of the penalty area.
If he can do this consistently in the Championship, he’ll certainly be able to do it at Rangers with better players around him.
In England’s second tier, he was at a club that was not expected to win every game, but it will be a different ball game at Ibrox.
The stats above show that he’s got a passing accuracy north of 80 per cent and also received over 14 passes per 90 minutes.
This puts him in the top 80 percentile of strikers and that’s a good place to be in.
Leeds broke their record to sign Georignio Rutter and even paid a decent amount of money for Joel Piroe so they’ll obviously be preferred options.
Clement likes his strikers to be versatile, drop deep and drift into space in the final third and it’s fair to say that Gelhardt ticks a lot of boxes for him.
In other Rangers news, a senior player will pass his medical in the January transfer window despite a groin worry as Gers are battling Celtic to sign him.