Rangers legend admits damning verdict on £2.5M Ibrox striker | OneFootball

Rangers striking legend Kris Boyd’s assertion lately that Hamza Igamane is not ready to lead Rangers’ line is rather true, but also a statement of the utter obvious.

The 21-year-old Moroccan has had a mixed start to his Rangers career, initially being injured for long enough before finally gaining match fitness enough to begin featuring in games, and while some of his cameos were good, and looked like he had the tools to become a £20M striker in the future, when the boy started, he struggled.

Boyd believes he’s not ready to be Rangers’ main hitman, and it’s hard to disagree with that.

Igamane is raw – he’s big, strong, quick, powerful, and seems to have a clinical finish, but for once, we might actually agree with manager Philippe Clement who said the lad wasn’t emotionally ready for the step up to Rangers level having only plied his trade in the lowly Moroccan domestic game.

Rangers plunged £3M at FAR RABAT for this striker, clearly seeing him as a massive investment for the future, and it was abundantly clear that fitness-wise, emotion-wise and mentality-wise Igamane wasn’t ready to play for the club.

This did have fans outraged – why sign a player who isn’t good to go immediately.

Beats us, we do wonder why we’ve lost effectively 3 months of football and lost an option up front by signing him.

There is indeed potential there, it’s clear with his sparing cameos that Igamane has a lot of tools – he’s a bulldog, and he’s got power, as well as that clinical finish.

But it’ll take time, and unfortunately Rangers otherwise only have the out-of-form and potentially injured Cyriel Dessers as an option, because Danilo still isn’t there yet either.

So it’s safe to say Rangers’ striking options could be better, with fans now also pinning a lot of random hopes on Zak Lovelace, who has only made 4 appearances from the bench.

This is an area Rangers did desperately poorly in the window in.