The scenario hasn’t been an appealing one lately for the Scottish Premiership side, Rangers, owing to the managerial ramification, dilemma over their future steward as well as the ever-rising gap between them and Celtic. The Gers started the season in a sporadic manner and under the tutelage of Pedro Caixinha, they did look sluggish and sporadic and no wonder why they are lagging behind the yardsticks they must have set for themselves at the start of the campaign.
Caixinha’s reign failed to garner the compelling results as things went wrong, more often than not, under him. Not only were they beaten by their arch-rivals, Celtic, in all of the three Old Firm derbies (including the 5-1 humiliation in the league game), they got themselves knocked out of the Europa League at the hands of Luxembourg minnows, Progres Niederkorn. The team looked spineless under him and a change was always on the cards.
Eventually, the Portuguese was sacked a few days back and quite rightly so, and despite the fact that Graeme Murty is appointed as the interim manager of the club, the Light Blues are vouching for their options for a permanent manager who could navigate them in the right direction. Nonetheless, two good outputs that were yielded after the exit of Caixinha were Rangers’ 1-3 away win against Heart of Midlothian at the Murrayfield Stadium and the contract extension of Aidan Wilson.
The latter event, which ties him with the club until the summer of 2020, is indeed a good move by Rangers, for he is a genuinely talented youngster with loads of potential in his belly to offer. Wilson emerged through the youth ranks of the Teddy Bears and has been touted as one of the next big things. He made his way into the senior side last season and accumulated two games under his belt towards the end and is progress has been cherished by the football fraternity.
A spectacular lad who trains very hard and is slowly but surely climbing the ladders, Wilson is expected to be a first-team regular in the near future, although injuries have frequently knocked on his door. The Glasgow based outfit made a handful number of signings during the summer transfer window and one of the galvanizing players they successfully lured to the Ibrox Stadium was Bruno Alves.
Someone like Alves can really give the requisite push to the development of Wilson as a centre-back and with the attributes which the 18-year-old possesses like strength, commendable game-reading abilities and composure, he can indeed go a long way if he keeps his confidence intact and keeps his developments moving in the right direction.
