BREAKING NEWS:A striker comes clean about the Rangers decision that forced him to reach a crossroads in his career.

Jermain Defoe says Rangers coerced him into a player-coach role, which drove him to leave Ibrox.

The seasoned striker was on loan from Bournemouth to Glasgow in 2019 to try his hand at the Premiership; Defoe didn’t leave until

2022, when he went back to Sunderland. Following a brief second stint with the Black Cats, he retired.

He began his playing career at West Ham and went on to play for Portsmouth, Toronto,

and Bournemouth before making his mark at

the Premier League level during a spectacular spell at Tottenham.After joining the team under Steven Gerrard, Defoe gained

popularity and assisted the team in winning the Premiership in 2021. However, the Tottenham star did not leave Rangers on his own

terms since, near the conclusion of his playing career, he felt pressured into taking on the position of player-coach.

“I noticed you were sharp in training. Could you tell me what’s going on?” Are you more interested in coaching than in playing?

“I want to play, I said. To tell the truth, I had no desire to be a coach or player at all. I was made to do it. Thus, I chose to travel to

Sunderland.That left him with a choice, and in the end, he decided to go back to England. “I hadn’t played in about two or three

months before I went to Sunderland,” he said to Football Firsts.

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