BEST SIGNING EVER;Rangers confirm the signing of their dream player-Jamie Murphy

They say good things come to those who wait. And for one Rangers fanatic, he had to wait longer than most to secure his dream transfer to the Scottish Premiership giants.

At one point, the deal looked to have collapsed.

Rangers had agreed to bring Jamie Murphy to his beloved Ibrox from Brighton and Hove Albion at the start of the January transfer window back in 2018. But, for 24 hours at least, that lifelong ambition looked set to be ripped away from him in heartbreaking circumstances.

Murphy, looking back the most nail-biting period of his career, describes the situation he found himself in as nothing short of a ‘fiasco’.

Fortunately, thanks in part to former Rangers director Mark Allen, a compromise would eventually be reached with Brighton and the transfer – belatedly – was completed.

Rangers finally signed Jamie Murphy from Brighton

“There was a bit of a fiasco about the transfer,” Murphy recalls, speaking on The Open Goal podcast. “I had the first part of the medical on Thursday night and the second part was booked for Friday. It was all trying to get it done so I could go out to Florida (with them for a friendly tournament in the USA).

“It gets to five, six, seven o’clock, (the Rangers squad) had all met up. Then, Brighton phoned and they were like; ‘deal’s off’. I had done the medical!

“I’m sitting at Murray Park thinking; ‘what’s going on here?’.

“But Mark Allen has gone; ‘no, leave it with us. We’ll sort it’. So we were just sitting there. I know I’m not going to Florida. So I phoned Paul Barber, the chief executive in Brighton, (and said); ‘there is no chance I’m coming back down’.

“He was like; ‘unfortunately Jamie, it’s just something that happened’. So I got home that night thinking it’s off! The next day, it gets to 6 o’clock and Brighton said it can be a loan, and Rangers had agreed it.