Originally published at: https://www.rangersnews.uk/analysis/end-of-season-report-ross-mccrorie/
Following on from the excellent Ryan Jack, we take a look at homegrown talent, Ross McCrorie. It’s been a strange sort of season for the 21-year-old, but there are heaps of positives to take out of it. McCrorie turning out in the Scottish Cup at Kilmarnock. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images) First and foremost, he’s now…
Ross McCrorie is a fantastic young player. Very soon Rangers will have to play him in the first team regularly, or lose him to the EPL, where Clubs with cash to burn build big squads and basically have 2 first elevens to compete in The Premiership, Carabao Cup, FA Cup and Europa/Champions Leagues.
I could see a team like Man City, Arsenal, Everton or Wolves taking him on and using him in the secondary Competitions. If it was City, Guardiola would turn him into a Worldbeater!
We need to be using young talent, not exporting them. Get him in! Quick!
Manchester City have shown us that the days of playing with the same 11 players (or even 14) are over. Players get injured, they get ill, they temporarily lose form, sometimes due to playing too many games within a short time period. So we DO NEED MORE THAN JUST THREE OR FOUR MIDFIELDERS. In midfield, you cover a lot of ground and do a huge amount of tackling, thus increasing the chances of injury. McRory is big and physical–and very well suited to games where we know that the opposition is liable to be very physical–AND DIRTY. Many teams try to kick us off the park, and the referees do not give our players the protection that they should. Steven Gerrard should use more of his squad and NOT to keep asking players to play with knocks. Guardiola does not do that–and neither does Klopp of Liverpool, who also successfully does a lot of rotation. Good players like Henderson and Milner are NOT guaranteed a game evry week. Hopefully that will pay off when they beat Spurs in the European Champions League Final on Saturda.
Gary Holt.Greg Docherty. Surely good enough as cover.