Rangers are in talks with a number of rising stars about tying them to new contracts, it was revealed on Wednesday.
Academy chief Craig Mulholland has revealed a spate of Rangers’ promising young players are set to follow Aidan Wilson’s lead and sign new deals with the Ibrox club.
Wilson penned a one-year extension to his contract on Tuesday to keep him at the club until 2020 and Mulholland explained that his youthful teammates are set to follow.
“Aidan is one of a few who we are talking to at the moment, and we got him over the line first,” Mulholland said, as quoted by Rangers’ official website.
“There will be a number of young players who will be signing new contracts over the next couple of weeks.”
Wilson is one of a number of homegrown talents to make their first-team debut for the Gers in recent months and Mulholland believes it proves that there is an ever-improving pathway for young players at Rangers.
Jamie Barjonas, Kyle Bradley, Myles Beerman and Ross McCrorie have also made their first-team debuts in recent months with others like Serge Atakayi and Andy Dallas unused substitutes for the senior squad at the tail-end of last season.
OPINION
It doesn’t require the detective skills of Miss Marple to work out the identity of the Rangers young guns set to follow Wilson in signing new contracts. Bradley, Beerman, Atakayi, Dallas and brilliant young centre-back McCrorie are surely next line. It is understandable why Wilson was the first to be rewarded. He was a stand-out for Graeme Murty’s Under-20s last season as he worked his way into first team consideration and his work ethic is said by all those in the know to be second to none and an example to all.