Rangers Close In on Premier League Star – But Fans Slam ‘Too Slow’ Claims | OneFootball

We’ve heard on Ibrox Noise quite a few rumblings about Leicester City’s Conor Coady. The Premier League defender is the next big thing in terms of a massive target Rangers are after, and it is certainly needed in light of the loss of Leon Balogun and technically the loss of John Souttar as well. The main criticism that we have heard labelled at the 32-year-old stopper is ‘too slow’. This immediately rings alarm bells, not at the player himself, but at the viewpoint that being too slow is in any way an issue for a defender who’s of high quality. Coady has many, many Premier League appearances, and it is safe to say that the last time that Rangers brought in a significantly experienced Premier League defender, it certainly did not work out too badly in either case. David Weir is a complete epitome and symptomatically emblematic of the experienced veteran Premier League defender coming to Rangers and thriving. His team-mate of the time, ex-Aston Villa and Rangers stopper Ugo Ehiogu, rest in peace, was another example of an older defender, slower, who absolutely shone in Scotland simply because he, like his team-mate, were experienced and wise and knew how to cover positions, how to cover space, how to read the lines and how to work as a partnership. The idea that pace is in any way a constriction is laughable. We can’t lie and say that we are hugely familiar with Coady, we haven’t seen an awful lot of him, but any notion that a Premier League defender who’s experienced and slow could in any way be a criticism is absurd. We aren’t exactly thrilled overly with Russell Martin’s transfer targets at this point in time. In places they seem okay, there are a few Premier League players in there which is important for a club of the pressures of Rangers, but there’s a lot of lower league stuff too and a bit of a hype train about them as well. But nevertheless, Coady, like potential future team-mate Max Aarons, is an experienced Premier League player, he’s a bit older than Aarons, but he’s certainly experienced and the idea that slowness is in any way a problem, all it needs is a picture of David Weir as the response, that would not be a valid argument against bringing him in.