Rangers must sell 6 million pounds sterling “Yaya Toure” on left “

Back in their favorite competition, can the sound of the Hymn of the Europa League in the season of the Rangers of Govan Spark?

Just to say, the start of the Russell Martin era has disappeared, frankly, disastrously, with the light blues which has not yet won a prime minister match in five attempts, their worst departure since 1978, was thus seated in the second row of the table.

They beat at least Hibernian 2-0 in the quarterfinals of the League Cup on Saturday, creating a confrontation in the semi-final with Celtic in Hampden in November, a result which will maintain the universally unpopular Martin in a work, for at least a few days.

Now the Gers will start their Europa League campaign with a Genk visit Thursday evening; They also welcome Roma, Braga and Ludogorets Razrad in the league phase, with trips outside at Sturm Graz, Brann, Ferencváros and Porto on their calendar.

Last season, the Rangers finished eighth in the phase of the inaugural League, reaching the quarter -finals of the Europa League, continuing their love story with European action Thursday evening, having reached the final of course that recently in 2022.

If Martin’s team will make a winning start against Genk, he must make his best player a central pillar, but imagine if the Rangers still had a key man in their team, sold under Giovanni Van Bronckhorst.

The importance of Nicolas Raskin for the Rangers

Nicolas Raskin was the best undisputed Rangers player last season, underlined by the fact that he was appointed player of the year of the two players as well as the player of the supporters.

Thus, any new manager would like to build the team around the Belgian international, well, with the exception of Martin, he would seem.

The midfielder was left on the bench for the Champions League qualifiers against Viktoria Plzeň and Club Brugge, not included in the match team for matches against Celtic and Hearts, the latter a 2-0 defeat, with the presenter Darrell Currie perplexed why all manager would choose to leave his “best player in stand”.

Thus, after having apparently settled their differences, Raskin returned to Martin’s programming against Hibs this weekend and, to anyone’s surprise, made all the difference, returning to his house the opening and putting an excellent performance.

Thus, the 24 -year -old must be considered simply a little in the future, who joined forces with Mohamed Diomandé at the base of the midfield on Thursday, but imagine if the Rangers still had the “Yaya Touré with the left foot” to finish this trio.

What happened to the hero of forgotten rangers

In the summer of 2019, despite the reported interests of many Premier League clubs, the free agent Joe Aribo decided to join the Rangers, convinced to move north of the border by manager Steven Gerrard, following the expiration of his contract to Charlton Athletic.

Well, the midfielder scored his Ibrox debut with a goal against St Joseph’s in a qualifying match in the Europa League, winning 26 goals and 25 assists for the club in total, winning a title of Premiership and the Scottish Cup.

Speaking in 2021, the defender of Aston Villa Ezri Konsa, who played alongside Aribo in the valley, called him “Yaya Touré on left”, adding that his “languid style [is] Quite unique “, praising his” big feet “and his fantastic ability”.

Then, manager Gerrard accepted, saying that ARIBO had “the world at his feet”, adding that he was “exceptional from start to finish” after a victory for the League Cup against East Fife in August 2019, shortly after his arrival.

The historic Nigerian international moment in a Rangers jersey came to the final of the Europa League 2022, breaking the impasse against Eintracht Francfurt in Estadio Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán, while the Gers were beaten with penalties in Seville.

This would be his last goal for the club, sold in Southampton for around 6 million pounds sterling shortly after, and her career has not all proven that she would do it.

The table below documents its season performance by season.

First and foremost, it is worth recognizing that ARIBO has not played a single minute for Southampton this season, completely frozen by the manager will always be, initially because of uncertainty, but, now that the window has closed, it has not yet been reinstated.

When he was on the ground for the saints, he recorded only nine goals and a solitary help for the club, despite his double figures for combined goals and assists during each of his three seasons in Glasgow.

Thus, Aribo surely regrets moving on the southern coast in 2022, since Southampton has been a Yo-Yo club since his arrival, and simply imagine if this current Rangers team had it at its peak; He would make a huge difference next to Raskin.

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