{"id":785548,"date":"2026-09-28T18:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785548\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T18:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:42:11","slug":"lewis-ferguson-rangers-dream-remains-but-bologna-exit-was-never-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785548\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Ferguson: Rangers dream remains but Bologna exit &#8216;was never close&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ferguson, who is under contract until 2028 with the option of a further year, has played every minute of Bologna&#8217;s five Serie A games so far this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His father, Derek, and uncle, Barry, both played for Rangers with the latter captaining and at one stage managing at Ibrox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In July, newly-installed Rangers manager Derek McInnes spoke of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/cz7581q7758o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;obvious link&#8221;<\/a> with Ferguson, having worked with the player at Aberdeen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On his bond with Rangers, Ferguson said: &#8220;It&#8217;s no secret that I grew up a fan and my family is involved in the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a dream of mine as a kid and that&#8217;s not changed but I don&#8217;t want to speak about that while I&#8217;m a player at Bologna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In the future, you never know. It might happen, it might not, but it&#8217;s always been something in the back of mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ferguson, who is under contract until 2028 with the option of a further year, has played every minute&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-785548","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\/785548","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=785548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}