Nico Raskin picked up his first two caps for Belgium. It is linked to a lucrative distance from the Rangers in what will surely be a summer cleaning at the Ibrox underperforming outfit.
However, there is one thing that the 24 -year -old accepts that he must improve before his future is decided in summer – adding to his objective count and his versatile numbers.
Raskin operates mainly as a defensive midfielder, but is disappointed to have marked only twice during the current campaign and accepts that he must work on his finish and his level of deposit in scorer situations if he wants to pass his career to the next level.
“I missed a few goals with my feet and I should score more,” he said. “I want to score more, I want to add that.
“I have sometimes been in the box and I need to be a little calmer to score in this situation and add statistics.”
The two goals of Raskin – one of which came in the 3-0 victory of the Rangers, the old victory at Celtic Park in January – came from the headers and he admits that he put pressure on the interim manager Barry Ferguson to let him get more involved in the sets and show his strength.
Belgian midfielder Nico Raskin (far right) was impressive for the club and the country
Raskin started for Belgium in his 3-0 Nations League victory against Ukraine last month
“I fight to be allowed to get on the corners because I know that I jump up and that I have a good timing,” he told the Official Match Program.
“Everyone is used to playing against big and big guys and maybe they think:” Choose the big ones “- and they forget me.
“But when you score two, three or four goals, they start to look more like, so I should be a little more creative with the boys.”
Will the Cortes winger finally have the chance to show its value?
One of the reasons why the American takeover of the Rangers is such a matter is the need for potential buyers to show reasonable diligence.
From loans of administrators to players’ contracts, it is natural that those who are about to move know exactly what they deal with before buying a majority participation.
You cannot then imagine that there was a certain degree of apprehension when the lawyers began to chew the Rangers’ obligation to buy Oscar Cortes to the goal for 4 million pounds sterling this summer.
Cortes fought for fitness since he joined the Rangers on loan before a permanent decision
There is no doubt that the Colombian winger has talent. This was obvious in his first initial Ioan fate to the club from January 2024.
But the injuries that destroyed this first hour in Glasgow raised interrogation points on the wisdom of Philippe Clement in advance with a loan of a later year before a permanent transfer this summer.
With only seven appearances to its name to date, the Rangers began to discover the buyer’s remorse before they even separate their money.
There will therefore be a considerable relief throughout the round that Cortes is not only returning to complete training, but has done the bench during the recent matches against Dundee and Hibernian.
“Thank goodness, I train alongside the team,” he told a radio station.
“I have been training with my teammates for a month now.
“I’m fine and I feel good, which is the most important thing to get playing time.
“The intention is to recover from an injury, to be able to play and to get minutes.
“I’m learning a lot now. This injury taught me a lot, a lot of things I have to do and learn here.
“I focused a lot on this, also on work outside of team training, and that helped me feel much better. I’m on the right track.
Clement did not stay long enough to see if Cortes could be the active that he thought he could be. At least, he no longer seems to be a complete responsibility for anyone who is responsible next season. This is a thing less for the American consortium to take care of taking care.
Rangers can live to regret the day the young Wilson striker left
The loss of talented academic youth products before flirting with the first team is a problem even for the biggest Scottish clubs.
Rangers and Celtic are not immune to the trend that has seen early adolescents suckled by English giants almost as soon as their potential emerge.
Since the £ 400,000 of Rory Wilson from the Rangers to Aston Villa at the age of 16, he supported the 49 goals he scored in his last season in the Ibrox youth system.
The value of the teenage striker Rory Wilson has climbed since he left the Rangers for Aston Villa
The goal machine born in Girvan managed 36 games in 53 games under 18 and at the under 21 for the Midlands Club, where some have described him as the best young talent from Jack Grenalish.
The 19 -year -old striker has become such a sought -after commodity that he felt able to refuse the offer of a five -year agreement with Villa, which aroused a lucrative move abroad.
But, with his existing contract which soon expires, the talks with his current employer resumed last month and it was announced this week that an agreement had been concluded.
Although Villa has not disclosed the details, it is understood that Wilson has accepted a two -year contract, with the option of an additional 12 months. The hope will be that he had an impact on the first team by then.
If he does it, he will be another star of the Rangers who has escaped, like Billy Gilmour before him. Nowadays, nobody expects Scottish clubs to compete with their EPP equivalents, but developing players for the benefit only of someone else is an ungrateful business.
Prepare or break time for women Rangers Coach Potter
Jo Potter, the chief coach of the women of the Rangers, is preparing for a sequence of four games which could make or break their dream with a domestic hatch.
Two points of the rhythm of the SWPL table, its second side, has an appetizing confrontation with the fourth Celtic on Broadwood on Sunday.
Rangers head coach, Jo Potter, continues a triple domestic
Not only would a victory leave their rivals which would hang out in the title race, but that would do the rangers for a week during which they also play Hibs leaders and the third city of Glasgow.
With Aberdeen to come in the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup a week later, it was an exciting period for the Potter team, which has already won the Sky Sports Cup of this season.
Unbeaten in 11 games since the start of the year, the Rangers will be favorite to win the match on Sunday. They only lost once with their city rivals in eight derbies since Elena Sadiku became the Celtic coach 15 months ago.
Nothing to fear for teams outside Ibrox after the Rangers record five consecutive losses at home
Remember when they said that consecutive defeats have been a crisis among the Rangers? Well, what is five consecutive home losses? Or the concession of at least two goals in six consecutive league games?
These are the attractive statistics on which the acting manager Barry Ferguson is struggling in the rest of the 2-0 Hibs victory in Ibrox on Saturday. Is there a word that does justice in the melodramatic vocabulary of the old company?
“Unprecedented” maybe. Never before have the Rangers lost five home games in a row. And Queen Victoria was on the throne when they conceded two or more goals in half a dozen consecutive league outings.
Hibs was the last visiting team to silence Ibrox, winning 2-0 last weekend
When it comes to beating goalkeeper Jack Butland, it has become quite free for everyone. In recent weeks, St Mirren, Motherwell, Hibs and Celtic have all done it twice in the same game, while Dundee and Celtic have succeeded.
Concern for Ferguson, this home record has the potential to worsen, and not only because the next visitors to Ibrox are athletic bilbao in the first leg of their quarter -final of the Europa League on Thursday evening.
Any type of team will savor a trip to Ibrox at the moment. Morale is weak among these players of the Rangers, confidence is fragile and the supporters are ready to make their feelings known in the first opportunity.
The former Rangers and Hibs midfielder Kevin Thomson admitted as much the other day when he suggested that Ferguson players had not been mentally strong enough to cope.
“If the opposition teams come to Ibrox and they think that there is a little fear there, there is a little animosity, they reproduce, they live there,” said Thomson. “That’s what they want. It will be the manager’s team to speak. I sat in the opposition locker room.
“Can you silence the crowd?” Can you stay in the game? All the old shots you can see and unfortunately for the last five home games, the players could not manage this.
The finalists of the Europa League will obtain 15,000 tickets each, and optimistic fans of Ibrox can apply now!
Optimistic fans of the Rangers can now request final tickets from the Europa League and UEFA revealed that the Ibrox side would obtain an allowance of 15,000 if they had passed.
The Rangers are facing a huge challenge against Athletic Bilbao in shape, which has lost only one Liga match since early October – this week in the quarter -final in Ibrox.
If they were to negotiate this challenge, they would only be a turn of what would be their second final appearance in four years in the Europa League.
The final will take place on May 21 in Spain at the home of San Mames of the opponents of the Rangers this week, arrangements of sports bilbao and tickets have now been announced.
All fans are invited to request a lottery for the final, but the two finalists will be awarded 15,000 memoirs each of the final 49,600 capacities.
All fans are invited to request a lottery for the final, but the two finalists will be awarded 15,000 memoirs each of the 49,600 capacities of the May 21 final.
The San Mames Stadium in Bilbao Athletic will host the Europa League final on May 21
And prices will start at £ 34 for tickets in the UEFA “Fans” section, with four different categories. The higher category price is £ 206.
UEFA revealed that a total of 11,000 tickets will go to the lottery.
They said: “A total of 41,000 tickets out of 49,600 are available directly for fans and the general public to buy.
“The two teams reaching the final can receive up to 15,000 tickets each, while the remaining tickets are offered for sale directly to fans around the world.”
