{"id":654932,"date":"2026-06-24T00:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/654932\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T00:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:32:12","slug":"rangers-close-to-transfer-deal-for-return-of-academy-graduate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/654932\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers close to transfer deal for return of academy graduate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  After falling out the picture a little, he moved on loan to Portsmouth for the 2019\/20 season and then to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/local-news\/aberdeen-news\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aberdeen<\/a> for the following campaign, under current Rangers boss Derek McInnes. That eventually became permanent, and he spent four seasons at Pittodrie in total.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He move to Bristol City for around \u00a32 million in 2023 and has been a key player at Ashton Gate over the past three seasons.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He has just one year left on his deal and Rangers are set to bring him back, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rangersreview.co.uk\/features\/26221675.rangers-closing-second-transfer-summer\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rangers Review<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It is being reported that Ibrox chiefs have beaten competition from other clubs down in England to bring McCrorie back to Glasgow.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A two-time Scotland cap, he has mostly been used at right-back or wing-back by his current club but can also play at centre-back or in midfield.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Rangers will press on with attempts to strengthen their squad, and will look to add two centre-backs, more options in midfield and a right winger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After falling out the picture a little, he moved on loan to Portsmouth for the 2019\/20 season and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-654932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}