Sold at £6.5m, now rated at £50m: Rangers had a mare on 25y/o who "will go to the top" - opinion

Over the last few years Rangers haven’t exactly had a problem with goals, with the Ibrox club rattling the back of the net on a regular basis under the stewardship of Giovanni van Bronckhorst and his predecessor Steven Gerrard.

Last term, the Gers scored 92 times in the Scottish top-flight, a record that happened to be 14 more goals than their fierce Old Firm rivals.

They are tracking five behind Celtic this season but there is a belief that they still have the firepower to win the title for a successive season.

After all, they have Alfredo Morelos in their team, the ‘jungle cat‘ who has been terrorising Premiership defences for years now.

However, the Colombian continues to be linked with a move away and it feels inevitable that in the not too distant future, the Glaswegian club may decide to mutually part ways.

Should that happen, then Rangers will need to identify an urgent replacement for their current star striker.

Yet, they may have already had their ideal successor right in front of their very eyes if a piece of transfer business had gone according to plan back in 2020.

The player in question is Brentford’s Ivan Toney, a forward who caught the interest of both Old Firm clubs 18 or so months ago.

The 25-year-old admitted himself that the Gers were an option, telling talkSPORT: “Like you said, I was going to sign for Celtic – but I was also going to sign for Rangers.”

It was a piece of news that left Ally McCoist stunned, as he exclaimed the following in response: “Oh, you’ve killed me! I didn’t know that, man!”

Indeed, that reaction is never more apt right now as Toney’s value is skyrocketing in England following a £6.5m move to Brentford in the same summer. He has since been linked with pastures new again after