“Whether I agree with it or not, it doesn’t matter. That’s football.<\/p>\n
“I’m just proud and happy I got to share those two and a half years at the club with all these great people. It means everything to me.”<\/p>\n
Rangers’ interest in Pandur, who said it was “a lovely experience” to play in front of the crowd at Ibrox for the first time in Wednesday’s pre-season friendly win over St Etienne, began before he joined Hull from Fortuna Sittard in 2024.<\/p>\n
“I remember my agent was talking to a director who is not with this club any more and it came close,” he recalled.<\/p>\n
“It is probably better because I am much better than I was three or four years ago – I have developed quite a lot and there’s still more to come and I think I’m in a perfect place to improve.”<\/p>\n
Pandur revealed that contact with Rangers “was ongoing through the season” but that “I didn’t have much to think about” when the approach came and a deal was done “in a couple of days”.<\/p>\n
His arrival at Ibrox coincides with the return of former number one Allan McGregor as goalkeeping coach.<\/p>\n
“It means a lot to me to have him as my coach,” Pandur said. “It is up to me to learn from him and ask him questions and develop under him.<\/p>\n
“He is a legend of the club and also in Europe he played a lot of games and in the national team as well.<\/p>\n
“When I found he was the goalkeeping coach, it just filled me with happiness. I want to learn from the best and that’s why I came as well.”<\/p>\n
Pandur had consulted Hull team-mates John Lundstram and Kieran Dowell, and former Rangers striker Antonio Colak, before making his decision.<\/p>\n
“They told me they demand a lot,” he revealed. “There is pressure. They want trophies.<\/p>\n
“I want all of that as well, so I never ran from pressure, from responsibility all my career – it’s just the way I’ve been raised.<\/p>\n
“I want to test myself on the biggest stage and I think Rangers are one of the biggest clubs in Europe. In my mind I know I’m ready for it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Whether I agree with it or not, it doesn’t matter. That’s football. “I’m just proud and happy I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-707134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707134","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=707134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}