The Rangers International Courier
Squad19 Feb 2035
A fracture rules Ikechukwu Mgbemena out for 100 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Rangers International will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad19 Feb 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ebuka Ogbonna
63 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Rangers International lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings19 Feb 2035
Nobody could get near Dillon Hoogewerf
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Feb 2035
Otabek Jo'raqo'ziyev in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rangers International this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match17 Feb 2035
Otabek Jo'raqo'ziyev sends Rangers International past Bendel Insurance
It finished 1‑0, and it was Otabek Jo'raqo'ziyev’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Rangers International.
Player ratings19 Feb 2035
Otabek Jo'raqo'ziyev was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.06. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad19 Feb 2035
When it matters, Dillon Hoogewerf plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Player ratings19 Feb 2035
Lenni Cirino was immovable
8 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Market19 Feb 2035
Adebayo Lookman leaves for nothing
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Adebayo Lookman leaves Rangers International the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
In brief
- Market Chukwueze Nwankwo leaves for nothing
- Boardroom Rangers International keep producing them
- Market Chukwuma Abdullahi placed on the list