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Cummings lifts lid on life at Rangers last season

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Former Rangers striker Jason Cummings has described what life was like at the club during a tumultuous year last season.

The 23-year-old joined the Glasgow giants on loan from Nottingham Forest in January with an option to buy, but Rangers failed to take up their option, and he joined Peterborough United in another temporary switch this summer.

He’s started spectacularly at his new side, however, scoring six goals to start the season and earning League One’s August Player of the Month Award.

He hasn’t exactly been glowing in his assessment of his former club, though: “Last season, when I was at Rangers, all the Scottish lads sat at one table – and the foreign boys at another. There isn’t any divide here [Peterborough],” he told the Scottish Sun.

“When I was on loan at Rangers last season I barely played much and was mostly sitting on the bench. Forest and Rangers play one up front and normally opt to go with a big guy. I’m not the tallest so I am not a target man and you end up getting isolated.”

OPINION

Cummings certainly seems to be enjoying life in Peterborough a lot more than he did in Glasgow, that’s for sure. He obviously didn’t have to best of times north of the border but he’s doing well now for Posh so it’s best he just move on. There’s no need for him to comment on the state of things at Ibrox last season. However, he’s had his say, and his words confirm what many people suspected about last season’s Gers team. Namely that they weren’t, in fact, a team. There was no unity amongst the players and that is shown by Cummings’s admission that the Scottish players and the foreign players sat on separate tables. That sounds bizarre, but is probably more common that you think at football clubs. Language barriers are tough things to overcome, and they can require a certain amount of team spirit in order to do so. Rangers didn’t have that last year, but they seem to be back on track under new boss Steven Gerrard.

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