Rangers Have Missed The Opportunity To Sign 26-Year-Old Midfielder: Big Loss For The Team?
Rangers Have Missed The Opportunity To Sign 26-Year-Old Midfielder: Big Loss For The Team? Rangers have missed their window to sign Lewis Ferguson, as the Premier League now looks like the most likely destination for the Bologna midfielder this summer. Pete O’Rourke of Football Insider has confirmed that Ferguson is leaning toward a move to England.
Rangers miss out as Lewis Ferguson sets his sights on the Premier League Despite his deep family ties to Ibrox, a return to Glasgow remains a romantic notion that simply doesn’t match Rangers ‘ current budget. His uncle, former Gers captain and manager Barry Ferguson, has openly admitted that Bologna’s valuation has priced the 26-year-old completely out of the club’s reach. Ferguson’s career has been defined by his ability to bounce back.
After four years in the Rangers academy, the club let him go at 14, leading him to rebuild his career at Hamilton Academical and later Aberdeen. When Bologna took a £3 million gamble on him in 2022, he hit the ground running, netting seven goals in his first Serie A season, which turned out to be the best return for a Scotsman in Italy since Denis Law’s stint with Torino in the early sixties. Even a devastating ACL injury in April 2024 couldn’t slow him down for long.
He led Bologna to their first Coppa Italia final in over half a century, eventually lifting the trophy after a 1–0 win over Milan in May 2025. In doing so, he became the first Scotsman to achieve the feat since Graeme Souness. So far in the 2025–26 campaign, Ferguson has logged 1,233 minutes and a single goal, playing with the same grit that has seen him pick up five yellows and a red.
On the Transfer Insider podcast, journalist Pete O’Rourke noted that while Premier League scouts have watched Ferguson since his Aberdeen days, his success in Italy has made him a priority target. “I can’t see why not. Premier League clubs have looked at him before when he was up at Aberdeen.