Rangers confirmed as ‘interested’ in Borna Barisic rival | OneFootball

The story about Italian Serie B side Salernitana’s Domagoj Bradarić and his potential loan move to Rangers really was the boost we needed, albeit the predictable comments responded with ‘what about a striker ffs’.

The reality is Cyriel Dessers’ form is making a new hitman less of a priority than it was (4 in 5 ‘ffs’) and replacing Ridvan Yilmaz has become essential.

The Turk, whose Rangers career just cannot get going after two years of nearly constant injuries, is projected to be out for at least 6 weeks, but potentially more, and Rangers need to replace him now.

Simply put, Jefte and Robbie Fraser aren’t up to it, but a (former) Croatia international is.

Let’s look a little at the lad Ibrox Noise has been following ever since compatriot and ex-Ibrox man Borna Barišić, now of Trabzonspor, vied with him, Borna Sosa and Josko Gvardiol for that left back berth with the national team some years ago.

Bradarić is 24, and his career has seen him make 77 appearances in Ligue 1 with Lille and 65 in Serie A with Salernitana.

It is in fact puzzling he remained in Italy when relegated down to Serie B, because he is much, much better than that.

He has four Champions League appearances with Lille, four with his country, 7 in the Europa League and all of this before he’s 25.

We’re not calling him Maldini, not quite, but this really is a lad a cut above the players we’ve had there, and we’ve had Borna and Ridvan!

At 24 he has a tonne of potential in that slot, and he’d be a massive upgrade on Jefte and Fraser.

It’s a position we need fixed because we can’t rely on what we currently have in LB to take us forward.

What we have just isn’t good enough.