Calvin Bassey sets Rangers transfer wheels in motion as Ibrox chief opens up on player trading next step

Having hit the jackpot with Nathan Patterson, Rangers will be hoping there’s another tidy windfall on the way if Calvin Bassey decides the time is ripe to move on from Ibrox.

But Gers youth supremo Craig Mulholland insists the Light Blues won’t be satisfied with just one lottery win as he revealed the Light Blues are already planning for their next lucky dip into the English market.

Bassey was a £300,000 gamble when he was poached from Leicester’s academy two years ago.

The returns on that punt are set to pay out handsomely now though, with Ibrox chiefs confident they can hold out for a fee of around £25million on the back of a breakthrough campaign that saw the 22-year-old powerhouse centre-back take Europe by storm on the surge to Seville.

Their belief is further strengthened by the 12million notes they managed to squeeze out of Everton for Nathan Patterson, a player who when compared to Bassey’s achievements had barely made a ripple on the first-team scene before sealing his Goodison switch.

As hard as losing young talent - whether homegrown or pinched from clubs down south - is for the Ibrox faithful to stomach, it’s the stated policy of the club to now to rear their own starlets in the hope of generating vital profits.

And Mulholland reckons the successful sale of Patterson has only strengthened their resolve as Ross Wilson prepares to raid England again in the hope of finding fresh diamonds that can be polished up and sold on.

The academy boss - who confirmed Rangers have now raked in over £1million thanks to add-ons inserted into the £500,000 deal that took the then 15-year-old Billy Gilmour to Chelsea in 2017 - said of the Patterson deal: "It was massively important. We look at the eight figures we got for