Official Rangers partner reacts as Brentford striker Ivan Toney makes transfer admission
Heart and Hand have reacted as Brentford striker Ivan Toney revealed that he turned down the chance to join Rangers due to the lack of game time.
The England international gave a tell-it-all interview to the Diary of a CEO YouTube channel where he made revelations about his career and his betting ban.
He also admitted that moving to Ibrox was on the cards had there been guaranteed game time for him in Glasgow.
Explaining his decision to Steven Bartlett on The Diary Of A CEO podcast [21 August, 25m 45s], Toney said: “I did speak to other clubs. I actually went up to Rangers and spoke with the manager there, which was Steven Gerrard at the time.
“We spoke a bit, but there were two strikers at the time and they were looking to bring another one in, so there would’ve been four strikers.
“I think the formation that they played, the majority of the time was one striker up top. So I would have been third choice, something like this.
“We went to Celtic, we spoke to Celtic and I think it was the same there. I’m one of three strikers or something like this. I think at the time when I was moving, I wanted to be the main guy.”
Heart and Hand, the club's official partners wrote on Twitter, "There’s one that got away. Dammit."
Would've been sensational
At that time, Toney was well within his rights to deserve regular game time as he was extremely talented and was scoring goals regularly.
Rangers perhaps felt that he wasn't ready but should've changed their mind once they saw him thriving at Peterborough United.
He would've certainly preferred moving to big side playing in Europe over Brentford who weren't even among the favourites to get promoted.
However, Gers missed the trick and he moved to West London to become one of the best strikers in the Premier League.
Last season, he was third to only Erling Haaland and Harry Kane in the Golden Boot standings and that's at a club that started the campaign as one of the relegation candidates.
He would've been so much better than Alfredo Morelos and without the unprofessionalism that eventually saw everyone at the club happy to see him go.