Rangers are sitting with a few big squad calls that can’t be kicked down the road. The one that jumps out is Curtis. If we genuinely rate him, then give him starts and live with the odd rough edge. If we don’t, then there’s no point in him collecting five-minute cameos and learning nothing.
Curtis: start him or send him to grow up
I’m all for keeping Curtis around the first team, but only if there’s a clear path to minutes. Development isn’t magic. It’s repetition, pressure, learning when it matters, and playing through mistakes.
If he’s not going to start regularly, then a loan makes sense, and ideally a loan where he’s playing 90 minutes most weeks. Abroad would be my preference as well. Not because it’s glamorous, but because being away from home forces a young player to mature quicker. New environment, different football culture, and he has to fend for himself a bit. That’s often where you see a boy turn into a pro.
The Tav call: respect the service, but move on
This one will split opinion because of what he’s given the club over the years, but I’m with the view that another deal for Tav shouldn’t be happening. You can thank a player for their service and still accept the time is right to turn the page. That’s not personal, it’s squad management.
Rangers have spent too long clinging onto the familiar. If you want a fresher team with a bit more energy, you need to be brave about the harder decisions, not just talk about “rebuilds” every summer.
A striker who links play is useless without service
There’s also a wider point about how the team functions. If you’ve got a striker who can hold the ball in, link play, and bring others into the game, that’s a useful profile. But he still needs the ball in areas that matter.
Too often we end up with the forward doing the dirty work outside the box, then when the ball finally goes wide or a cross comes in, he’s not there because he’s 25 yards away having just stitched the move together. It becomes a circular problem: we don’t create enough, then we blame the striker for not being in the right spot for chances we aren’t actually producing.
Midfield: we need invention, not passengers
On recruitment, the point about Watt is fair. If we’re bringing in a midfielder, he needs to raise the level. It’s simple. If nobody can look at him and honestly say he displaces someone like Raskin, then what’s the plan? Another body, another option, another “squad player” who doesn’t change games?
What Rangers lack in the middle, for me, is that proper creative player who can receive under pressure and slide a pass through a set defence. In Scotland you see a lot of low blocks. Without a midfielder who can pick a lock, you end up going side to side, hoping for a mistake. That’s not enough.
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