Ibrox Noise
·5 August 2024
Injury update on Cortes as Igamane appears on Rangers scene
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·5 August 2024
The good news at least is that Oscar Cortes will not be out for the season, but Rangers have confirmed he will miss around two months, even though it’s been spun as ‘4-5 weeks’, with a twisted ankle. Fan reaction to this wasn’t terribly positive.
In terms of the day’s other developments, the Hamza Igamane stuff is slightly absurd – on one hand he was finally seen in a training video today, making some fans think he’s not injured or unfit, with some media even reporting that, but on the other he didn’t travel to Poland and the manager confirmed again that he isn’t going to be featuring for a long time and that he is NOT in first team training:
“I have been really clear about that from the first second that he came in. This is a young boy with a lot of potential but who never trained at the level we are training now. I can make the fans really happy to put him directly in tomorrow and then he gets injured and they cannot enjoy him the next couple of months. That is not the idea. For the moment he is more in an individual programme to make him better and then to get him in the first team squad training and afterwards to get him playing minutes. There is a way to go with him.”
In short, he’s at Auchenhowie, working on his own, but he’s nowhere near properly integrating with the first team squad and why on earth he was included in the Champions League squad we’re completely baffled by.
Clement has literally confirmed he can’t include Igamane any time soon, but still put him in the UCL squad. Bewildering.
And yes, Dujon Sterling did travel which gives us hope he might just be involved on Tuesday evening, but then it’s absurdly clear how inconsistent, eccentric and downright odd Philippe Clement is – his bizarre treatment of Todd Cantwell is evidence of this.
So honestly who knows what to believe any more.
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