Glen Kamara's 'strange' Rangers exile leaves ex teammate baffled as club told chance for mega cash has passed

Glen Kamara has found himself the odd man out among the crowded Rangers dressing room.

With a bloated 32-man squad, Michael Beale has decided it’s time to make space by ordering the exiled Finn to train on his own while he finds a new club. It’s a puzzler though for Kamara’s old Ibrox team-mate Greg Stewart, who always felt Gers and the 27-year-old bargain buy from Dundee were better together.

Stewart was on the Ibrox books at time when Kamara was keeping close company with Joe Aribo and Calvin Bassey, two stars who went on to make the club millions with their big money moves last summer. And he always expected Kamara to follow suit and eventually join his mates in rubbing shoulders with the biggest names in the game either down south or in a top European league.

Stewart hasn’t ruled out that that prospect yet but admits it will only come after the former Arsenal trainee goes his separate ways from Ibrox after struggling to keep his starting place. This time two years ago Kamara, fresh from a star turn for Steven Gerrard’s title-winners and an impressive Euros campaign with Finland, was being rated at £20million-plus. But with his old midfield colleague now banished to solitary confinement, Stewart doesn’t think there will be many queuing up to pay that kind of cash now.

He told Record Sport: “Football can be a funny game at times because with Glen, it’s only a couple of years since you really thought he was going places. Obviously new managers come in and have different views on players and where they fit.

“I’m not sure if Glen had a couple of injuries last year too which didn’t help. It’s never nice to hear that players are training on their own. It sounds like he’s had a chat with the manager and decided the best