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Their best ST since Morelos: Rangers lining up dream 31-goal star

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Ross Kilvington

57 minutes ago

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Cyriel Dessers isn’t the answer. The Glasgow Rangers striker may have good intentions and puts the hard yards in, but the reality is, the Light Blues are never going to win the Premiership title with the Nigerian as the main centre-forward.

 

Take last season, for example. Yes, he may have scored 22 goals from 54 appearances, add in nine assists, and the striker has 31 goal contributions in total. This works out as one goal involvement every 1.7 games, not bad at all.

 

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Taking a deeper dive into his top-flight stats offers a more comprehensive look as to why he isn’t the answer for next season.

 

The 29-year-old missed a staggering 27 big chances in 35 matches while finishing the season with a goal conversion rate of just 16%, hardly the best figures.

 

Cyriel Dessers’ Rangers stats last season

 

Metric

 

Premiership

 

Europa League

 

Goals

 

16

 

1

 

Assists

 

4

 

1

 

Big chances created

 

8

 

0

 

Big chances missed

 

27

 

0

 

Shots per game

 

2.9

 

0.4

 

Goal conversion percentage

 

16%

 

33%

 

Via Sofascore

 

Danilo should be fit for the start of the season having spent the previous few months recovering from a serious knee injury in December, but questions will be asked if he doesn’t start scoring goals when he returns to full fitness.

 

The Ibrox side made a massive mistake by allowing Alfredo Morelos to leave for free at the end of the 2022/23 season when his contract expired, as a player of his calibre would be perfect right now for Philippe Clement.

 

Alfredo Morelos’ Rangers statistics

Morelos arrived at Rangers as a 21-year-old with a point to prove who had impressed at Finnish side HJK Helsinki, scoring 46 goals in just 62 appearances for the club.

 

He had plenty of potenti

al, but was a move too much of a gamble for Pedro Caixinha, who was aiming to dethrone Celtic?