I have reason to suspect Igamane may not be around at Rangers for long and £10m fortune is just the start – Barry Ferguson

There are some days that stand out in the memory more than others. And often it involves the moment you realise you’re in the presence of someone very special.

For example, I’ll never forget the morning I turned up at Auchenhowie and clapped eyes for the first time on our latest new signing. Rangers had paid around £4m to Utrecht for a striker I had never even heard of before. But half an hour on the training pitch with Michael Mols later and I realised we had a potential superstar on our hands.

I knew nothing about the guy until that morning. But I watched him closely in that first session - the way he took the ball in and then spun on a sixpence, the way he finished inside the penalty box - and I thought to myself, ‘What a player we’ve got here!’. I know Mikey won’t mind me saying this but if he hadn’t picked up such a terrible injury in his first season away to Bayern Munich then he would have gone to move to a top four club in the English Premier League.

For those five months, he was without doubt the best striker I ever played with. For me, Mikey could have gone on to become one of the best strikers anywhere in British football. Trust me, he was that good.

So, as much as I don’t want to make any direct comparisons or to stick an unrealistic label on anyone’s back, I have to admit I’m getting Mikey Mols flashbacks every time I see Hamza Igamane pull on a Rangers shirt.

Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not for one minute saying that Igamane is on the same level as Michael was at his peak. There’s a long, long way for the young man to go before he gets there. But I do see glimpses of Michael every time I watch Igamane play. The wee flicks, the mad things he does - he’ll chest the ball, keep it up four times on his head and