Sold for £9m: Rangers played a blinder on gem whose value plummeted £7.2m in 5 years - opinion

Rangers transfer chief Ross Wilson was a busy man throughout January as he completed a number of deals at Ibrox throughout the transfer window.

He brought a plethora of players in to bolster Gio van Bronckhorst’s squad, including Amad Diallo, Aaron Ramsey, James Sands and Mateusz Zukowksi.

The sporting director also managed to negotiate a club-record sale as Nathan Patterson left to join Premier League side Everton for an undisclosed fee.

That particular record had been held by fellow right-back Alan Hutton – who joined Tottenham for a reported fee of £9m in 2008.

The Gers ended up playing a blinder with Hutton as his career after leaving Glasgow suggests that they did incredibly well to receive such a significant fee for his services.

He burst up through the academy set-up and played 99 times for the first team, scoring two goals and providing nine assists.

This led to Spurs picking him up in 2008. However, it was a strange move in the sense that the player was not over the moon to be making such a major transfer away from Ibrox. Speaking last year, Hutton explained:

“I turned down Tottenham multiple times, I didn’t want to go, I told the manager I didn’t want to go and I didn’t.

“At the end of the day, if Rangers agree on a fee, they’ve agreed on a fee and they’re willing to let you go so it’s kind of out of your hands a little bit. I remember it like it was yesterday. I turned them down multiple times, I was Rangers through and through and I never wanted to leave but when Rangers come and say: ‘Look, we’ve accepted this bid,’ it is what it is.”

He went on to play 66 times for Spurs in all competitions during a three-year spell at White Hart Lane, spending some of that time on loan at Sunderland.

They eventually sold