According to my sources, Rangers have already held preliminary talks with Brighton about getting Abdallah Sima permanently to Rangers. Brighton are ready to let the player leave but the price being quoted by the Premier League club right now is higher than what Rangers want to pay. If you are a supporter of The 4th Official on Patreon, you got this news last night only.
With a long term injury to Danilo, Sima is set to become an even more important figure for Rangers this season. We can only hope that the injury issues that have created havoc for Rangers this season will ease up. After all, Clement did say in the Rangers AGM, ”Give us a few months and you will see less injuries.”
Phillipe Clement has already made it clear that he wants the on-loan Brighton man’s loan made permanent, “It’s not about assessing Abdallah’s situation in the summer. There will be faster talks.
“But of course it’s really early to be doing that, the most important thing is that Abdallah is performing and he feels really good in the club.
“That’s the first step, so we can build on that.
“That’s an interesting process. If he is continuing what he is doing now I think this is also a good place for him to grow, as a player, as a person, in everything.
“It’s a demanding club so you love that or you have difficulty with that.
“You need a big personality to be strong with that in the moments when people are not happy about things.
“Then you need to fight through and Abdallah has shown that in these last weeks.
“It’s not the whole time that he’s getting praise. But he also fights through, and that’s also one of the things we need to look hard into in the assessment of players.
“It’s not just physical, tactical and technical qualities, it’s about personality too, the ability to be strong in the environment of a big club.
“That’s also the winning culture I want to create here.”
As there is no buy clause in the loan deal, it needs to be a negotiation and with the form Sima is in right now, you have to suspect that Brighton can afford to play a wait and watch game.
Sima right now has 12 goals from 1986 minutes played. That’s a goal every 165 minutes. Phenomenal numbers for a winger. And the Brighton loanee has adapted to the physical nature of the Premiership as well.
However, after the money that was spent this summer on signings that have yet to fire properly at Rangers, you get a feeling that the club will not pay an outrageous price for Sima.
