Available on a free
Caixinha’s transfer funds are likely to be thin after completing eight summer signings already, and scouring the market for players available for nothing is likely to be high on the Portuguese manager’s agenda.
Still in need of quality in certain areas of the pitch in order to catch Celtic, Caixinha must look to continue his summer influx by bringing the best of this summer’s freebies to Ibrox.
Allowed to leave Middlesbrough for nothing, Downing offers top-class quality that would see him tear up the Gers’ Scottish Premiership rivals without having to spend a penny.