Rangers sign £6m Liverpool gem and £15m lethal striker as monster summer transfer window predicted

Failure to win the Scottish Premiership in 2025/26 would make Rangers’ current barren run their second-longest since the 1980s, and with Russell Martin taking over at the helm it’s set to be a pivotal summer of transition at Ibrox so we decided to give him a little AI help.

Somehow the managerial genius of Steven Gerrard is the only thing that’s been able to stop Celtic since Rangers’ drop to the fourth tier, but Martin will hope to change that and he now has Grok’s suggestions for the summer to aid him in that quest.

It’s already been a busy transfer window with Oscar Cortes, Lyall Cameron, Emmanuel Fernandez and Joe Rothwell signing and Max Aarons joining on loan while no players have left for a fee yet, but that’s sure to change soon.

Grok heralded this as a summer of change for Rangers and earmarked a budget of £32m, so how did it spend that money? And who did it sell to fund that spending? Let’s find out…

AI predicts £15m Premier League striker will headline arrivals

We told you the AI is planning a big summer and there’s some key departures to get to, but first the marquee signing for Rangers this transfer window is predicted to be Cameron Archer (who Grok still thinks is at Aston Villa for some reason) for £15m.

Archer showed bags of potential in two half-seasons in the Championship at Preston North End and Middlesbrough and won the 2023 U21 Euros with England but has failed miserably in two spells in the Premier League, getting relegated even more prolifically than Aaron Ramsdale.

So a move north of the border makes perfect sense even if it may not inspire Rangers fans, though that disappointment would be a drop in the ocean compared to the next name on Grok’s shopping list - Kalvin Phillips. He’s had an even sharper decline than Archer since reaching a Euros final and the AI believes the 29-year-old would be available for £8m, less than a fifth of what Manchester City paid for him.

There’s more exciting news in the form of two young starlets heading to Ibrox though, in the form of Thelo Aasgaard and Owen Beck. The former has been heavily linked to Rangers after getting relegated with Luton, as Norway manager Stale Solbakken said it’d be “difficult” to select the 23-year-old for the national team if he’s playing in League 1, as Erling Haaland and co. look to qualify for just the country’s fourth World Cup.

Grok prices him at £5m, and spends another £6m on highly-rated 22-year-old Liverpool left-back, who was on loan at Dundee two seasons ago. Finally, the AI believes Conor Coady would be a good addition in central defence for £3m and also adds Wolves’ Nasser Djiga as cover on loan.

Grok cleans house at Rangers

There’s no other way of putting this - in Grok’s prediction, Rangers lose their top four scorers from 2024/25 by the start of next season.

Vaclav Cerny doesn’t return after his loan spell at Ibrox and Cyriel Dessers is the first to be shipped out by the AI, heading to AEK Athens for £5m and joined in south-eastern Europe by Mohamed Diomande who joins Besiktas for double that fee, reflecting the fact he’s seven years’ younger than Rangers’ top scorer last season. Reports suggest Hamza Igamane will join Lille for £15m in the coming days, just 12 months into a five-year deal in Glasgow, but only values him at £8m in sending him to northern France and the meaning it will be a new-look attack for Rangers next season.

Meanwhile Ridvan Yildiz is also on the move, making way for Beck by leaving for the same £6m that they bought the Welshman for, and Grok also believes they can £3m for Ianis Hagi despite Rangers releasing him from his contract earlier in the summer. That’s just the kind of left-field thinking and business genius that a three of four billion dollar AI is capable of, apparently.

AI-predicted 2025/26 Rangers starting XI: Butland; Aarons, Coast, Propper, Beck; Phillips, Barron; McCausland, Aasgaard, Cortes; Archer.