Kilmarnock Football Club is delighted to announce the loan signing of Bailey Rice, subject to international clearance.<\/p>\n
The Scottish midfielder arrives at BBSP Stadium Rugby Park from Rangers on a deal until the end of the season.<\/p>\n
Bailey, 19, had significant transfer interest from clubs around the UK and Europe before agreeing a new contract at Ibrox this summer.<\/p>\n
Following the success of Findlay Curtis\u2019 loan spell in Ayrshire, both clubs felt another arrangement was suitable for the next step in Bailey\u2019s career, and so he will join up with Neil McCann\u2019s side when they travel to Northern Ireland for the next part of their pre-season preparations.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a big club, and we\u2019ve got a good team\u201d Bailey told Killie TV after becoming our fourth summer signing. \u201cI obviously know the gaffer and Doddsy well, so I\u2019ve got a good relationship with them. I\u2019m looking forward to it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been close with the manager here throughout my career for different reasons. He\u2019s honest, he doesn\u2019t hold anything back, and that\u2019s what I like.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got good vision when on the ball. I\u2019m hoping I can take that onto the pitch, and take games by the scruff of the neck.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bailey started out at Motherwell but was snapped up by Rangers from the Fir Park youth system. He has spent the last four years at the Glasgow club, making 16 first team appearances, including a Europa League outing at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n
He will wear number 49 during his time in Ayrshire \u2013 the same shirt he holds at Rangers.<\/p>\n
McCann commented: \u201cHe\u2019s someone I\u2019ve known for a long time, even in his younger days. When we spent time at Rangers, we played him against Athletic Bilbao, and he came on against Dundee as well. Unfortunately, he didn\u2019t manage to continue that progress under the new management team.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s somebody that I\u2019ve always kept an eye on and he\u2019s got so much to offer us. The challenge for Bailey now is to get into our team. That\u2019s a challenge I think he\u2019s going to embrace.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s got so much potential, but sooner or later, potential needs to be realised, and he\u2019s got a chance here with us. He\u2019s young with not an awful lot of game time behind him, so I\u2019ve set him the task of getting himself to the stage where he\u2019s pushing to get into the team. If he does that, he\u2019s got the quality that can help us have a successful season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kilmarnock Football Club is delighted to announce the loan signing of Bailey Rice, subject to international clearance. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-662921","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\/662921","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=662921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}