He’s got something’: Barry Ferguson excited as Rangers close in on £4.5m transfer

Barry Ferguson, a former player for Rangers, is thrilled with what he has seen in Mohamed Diomande.

There have been rumors that the Nordsjaelland youngster is headed to the Scottish Premiership giants for a reported £4.5 million.

The highly regarded African attacker Mohamed Diomande, 22, is not the first to establish himself at Nordsjaelland.

If his tenure at Rangers follows the same prosperous trajectory as Mohamed Kudus’s at Ajax,

Philippe Clement’s team ought to reap substantial benefits from their purported £4.5 million outlay.

According to Danish publication BT, Rangers have fought off competition from a number of clubs,

Diomande leaving Nordsjaelland’s USA-based training camp in order to undergo a medical in Glasgow.

Rangers close in on Mohamed Diomande deal

And while ex-Gers skipper Ferguson is not getting carried away just yet – well-edited YouTube compilations

could make the best of us look half-decent –

he is excited to see one of the most promising midfield talents in Scandinavia bring his ball-carrying prowess and his

impressively well-rounded skillset to Scotland.

“When I knew it was probably going to be happening yesterday, as you do, you go on to YouTube and have a look,

” Ferguson tells the Daily Record. “Listen, everybody can look good on YouTube. But from the highlights, he looks as

if he has got something about him.

“(Diomande is) certainly a player the manager knows and fancies so interesting to see if it gets done in the next couple of days.”

Rangers were not expected to bring in a new midfielder this month – the club reportedly rebuffed the chance to

bring in Steven Alzate from Brighton earlier in the window – but Diomande is clearly rated highly enough

that the Ibrox giants felt this was an

opportunity they could not let slip through their fingers.

Tough-tackling and tenacious yet technically gifted too, Diomande has five assists from 21 appearances for Nordsjaelland this season.

A tally of nine yellow cards, meanwhile, suggests he won’t need too much time to adapt to the physicality of the Scottish league.