{"id":657760,"date":"2026-06-25T16:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/657760\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T16:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:04:13","slug":"ross-mccrorie-returns-to-rangers-from-bristol-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/657760\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross McCrorie returns to Rangers from Bristol City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McCrorie moved to Ashton Gate in the summer of 2023 for a reported \u00a32m fee and made 89 appearances for City &#8211; 41 of those last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In May, the Championship side took up the option to extend his terms by a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Capped twice for Scotland and included in the squad for Euro 2024, McCrorie played regularly at right-back for City but can operate across the defence and has been used as a midfielder, his predominant position in his first Rangers spell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And McCrorie has been given the number two jersey vacated by long-serving captain James Tavernier, who has moved on after 11 years at the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Ross is someone I signed for Aberdeen from Rangers, and at that time he wanted to go out and prove himself, which I think says a lot for him,&#8221; said McInnes, who joined from Hearts last week, of his first Rangers signing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He has developed and improved as a player, he has got that added experience, he is a full international now and he knows the club inside out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In the conversations I have had with him, a lot of things I am saying are things he wants from the club as well, so he&#8217;s a determined and competitive boy on the pitch, and he is determined to bring good times back to the club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McCrorie is McInnes&#8217;s first signing and will join fellow Scotland international Lawrence Shankland at Rangers this summer, with the striker currently at the World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McCrorie moved to Ashton Gate in the summer of 2023 for a reported \u00a32m fee and made 89&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-657760","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\/657760","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=657760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}