Kevin Kyle has hit back at comparisons made to Ibrox flop Cyriel Dessers.
Eleven years ago the former Scotland striker was leading the line for the Tribute Act as they powered their way to the Third Division title.
Montrose, Elgin, Peterhead and East Stirling had no answer to Kyle as he rampaged through the bottom tier of Scottish football assisted by Ian Black, Lee McCulloch and Dean Shiels.
There was a set-back when Stirling Albion beat the Tribute Act 1-0 but there was a title medal to be collected as the journey was launched towards winning two domestic trophies in 11 years.
At £4m, Dessers has had a horrendous start to his career in Scottish football, scoring twice in 13 appearances with both of them coming from deflections.
That prompted one caller to Radio Clyde to brand the former Cremonese forward as the Nigerian Kevin Kyle but the taxi driver and podcast host wasn’t prepared to sit back and take that level of abuse without striking back.
The Sun reports:
As Si Ferry and Andy Halliday poked fun at his expense, Kyle blasted: “I tell you f***** what, Rangers would be lucky to have me right now, I’ll be honest with you. I’m the one that’s laughing.”
And he went on: “I nearly texted you [Andy Halliday] to get the number for Clyde One so I could phone in.
“I was going to call up and say ‘How you doing Gordon, It’s the Scottish Cyriel Dessers here’.
Dessers is under contract until 2027 which will be one of the first problems that Beale’s successor has to deal with.
? “The guy is a dud. I would take a 60% fit Morelos over him”
? “When you wear No. 9?, you’re judged on goals – he doesn’t fit that bill”? Stuart in Cardonald phoned @markwilson_12 and Gordon last night to criticise the lack of goals from Cyriel Dessers for Rangers so far. pic.twitter.com/2HpNoL0M8i
— Clyde 1 Superscoreboard (@ClydeSSB) September 29, 2023
That will be a BITE then
So drosser the villain of the shit hole at present?
Strange one really, as didn’t he claim to be prepared to die upon the pitch in the scums cause against ourselves?
Well since he’s been a corpse with boots that day and ever since, don’t really understand what the scum are all moaning about regarding him?
Shouldn’t a bit of respect be shown to a player, who’s true to his word?
Strange bunch the scum zombie remains
Why has the Rangers main strikers over the years whether mark l or mark ll entities , had a serious overweight problem ? There was Derek Johnstone , big fake Kris Boyd , Kevin Kyle and the Uber rotund… Alfredo Morelos ! All of them obviously loved the old Scooby Snacks . Maybe it was that wonderful downtown Govan spring water ? Great for building up an appetite.