Soccer Football - Pre Season Friendly - Rangers v Tottenham Hotspur - Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - July 23, 2022 Rangers manager Giovanni van Bronckhorst REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
A knee injury suffered against Ross County looks like putting Tom Lawrence out of action for at least a fortnight covering tomorrow’s match against Celtic and two Champions League ties.
Alongside Antonio Colak the Welshman has been the only summer signing to make any impact at Ibrox but is now sharing the treatment room alongside Ben Davies and Sicknote Souttar.
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— Scottish Sun Sport (@scotsunsport) September 2, 2022
Lawrence scored in three successive matches but his absence tomorrow opens the door for Steve Davis, Ryan Jack or Scot Arfield to join up with John Lundtram and Glen Kamara in midfield. To the surprise of no-one Nice failed to put in a £10m offer for the Finnish internationalist.
Van Bronckhorst will probably host a media conference today with carefully selected questions avoiding the lack of spending and glossing over the injury list with doubts over whether Kemar Roofe and Filip Helander will be named in the Champions League squad.
Facing Celtic, Ajax, Aberdeen and Napoli in a 10 game spell Colak is the only fit forward, in central defender Connor Goldson’s partners consist of a midfielder, James Sands and a Murray Park starlet, Leon King.
That highlights what should be sevco’s main weakness over a long season: a thin squad.
Yes, we will have injuries / loss of form too, but we have strength in depth now – with young, eager players wanting to be first team regulars.
Ange has also managed to change the historical CFC Board mindset: when we were successful it usually resulted in a drop in player investment.
Ange has signifcianty changed the squad after a highly successful, turnaround season. It’s refreshing to see and bodes well for this and next season.
Expect the tabloids to be full of negative stories tomorrow prior to the big Glasgow derby game (;-0)
After all Kent & Morales can now sign for other clubs in 4 months time….. for FREE !!!!!!!
Horrendous decision at boardroom level…..
HH
The board has backed him to the hilt after what he completed last season good on them.