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Director breaks silence on £7m Rangers link with January decision ‘agreed’
Standard Liege’s sporting director has broken his silence on the Steven Alzate situation amid claims that Premier League outfit Brighton and Hove Albion have offered the midfielder to Rangers.
It’s certainly not an ideal situation to find yourselves in, Standard Liege at the mercy of a re-call clause and reduced to praying that the phone does not ring.
Steven Alzate is in the midst of his second season on loan at the Belgian outfit. But, with his contract expiring next summer, Brighton would jump at the opportunity to sell in January before losing the London-born Colombia international for nothing in July.
Brighton want Rangers to sign Steven Alzate
According to Belgian reporter Sacha Tavolieri, writing on X, Brighton are hoping to convince Rangers to take Alzate off their hands.
And Standard Liege can do nothing but sit and wait, Alzate’s future in Brighton’s hands.
“We had agreed with their (parent) clubs that they could be recalled in January,” Fergal Harkin tells Voetbal Krant, Alzate’s future uncertain and fellow loanee Isaac Hayden expected to return to Newcastle United.
“Steven is recovering from an ankle injury at Brighton. The recall option has not been exercised for the time being, and he is therefore still our player.”
Philippe Clement has big January plans
That would change, however, if Rangers opted to take up the opportunity afford to them. Whether they will do just that remains to be seen, though Tavolieri insists that a midfielder – even one as talented and technically gifted as Alzate – is not currently a priority for a Rangers side who appear to have set their sights on a left-back and another attacker after bringing in Fabio Silva on loan from Wolves.
Alzate, once a regular under Graham Potter at Brighton, is likely to be available for less than the £7 million fee demanded by The Seagulls last summer, when Sevilla and Fiorentina were showing an interest.
Rangers have also been offered the chance to bring in another Premier League misfit in Nottingham Forest’s £20 million forgotten man Emmanuel Dennis.
