Ipswich manager Mick McCarthy has admitted he was baffled by Rangers’ decision to sell Martyn Waghorn and Joe Garner over the summer.
Waghorn and Garner were among 12 players who left Ibrox over the summer as part of a massive overhaul sanctioned by Pedro Caixinha.
Both strikers have made immediate impacts at Portman Road, with Garner scoring four times in 10 league appearances and Waghorn striking at an even more prolific rate of six goals from eight matches.
McCarthy has admitted that he is still struggling to get his head around why Rangers offloaded the pair.
“Why Rangers didn’t want to keep them I don’t know,” McCarthy said, as quoted by the Daily Record website.
“We’ve been the very fortunate beneficiaries of that one.
“When I heard Waggy was available I thought that can’t be right. But we checked it out and he was.”
OPINION
Any Rangers fan will tell McCarthy he should not be too baffled. Waghorn was a flat-track bully for most of his two years at Ibrox, excelling against the second-raters but rarely delivering when it mattered. His goal record looks great – 44 from 78 appearances for the Light Blues – but it tells only half the story. As for Garner, his effort and commitment could not be questioned, but his one-dimensional style was a frustration for Rangers supporters. Following the summer signing of the exciting Alfredo Morelos, Waghorn and Garner have not been missed.