Todd Cantwell ‘likely’ to exit Rangers amid reports | OneFootball

Rangers fans seeing stories about playmaker Todd Cantwell heading out of the club are possibly not realising most of this content is based on pundit opinion, particularly 4lads recently who offered their take on the ex-Norwich attacker.

And in truth they’re not wrong – Cantwell simply hasn’t lived up to his first four months since them, despite fleeting glimpses of his talents seen here and there.

It is the ‘unfortunate’ reality for all Rangers players and managers that they have to do it against Celtic or they’ve fallen short, and Cantwell sadly never came close to doing it against our eastern friends which is, as we say, the barometer we measure the club on.

So it is being suggested he’ll leave, and yes, we understand he’s not a Philippe Clement favourite by any means and will seek to move onto pastures new, in a move few will really be that upset by.

His market value, legitimately, was once £40M, and when Norwich got greedy and demanded £10M more from Aston Villa who sought a Grealish replacement, the deal died.

And it seems, as we look at it now, so did Cantwell’s career.

He ended up nowhere at Carrow Road, and then a transfer to Rangers where, for four months last year, he threatened to be very special.

The catch? There was no pressure on him. Rangers had already lost the league under Giovanni van Bronckhorst, and from January to May manager Michael Beale wasn’t challenging for it.

Meaning Cantwell didn’t have the expectation – so he could express himself, much like Brandon Barker did in training, but couldn’t on the pitch.

Cantwell could on the pitch, with less demand, but this season past with something on the line he wasn’t to come close to replicating that old form. Preseason already was a bad sign, he was dreadfully poor, and it continued into the competitive action.

So yes, he’s expendable, and sources have suggested he has asked to leave.

What he does now is up to him – but his Rangers move didn’t work out and it’s better for all parties that he moves on.

And we suspect the same will happen at his next club.

He has all the ability in the world, but not the mental fortitude to succeed and go to the top in football. It takes more than talent to become Phil Foden, you have to work so, so hard on everything, not just running on the pitch.

And Cantwell doesn’t seem to be able to.