OPINION
Rangers have signed a lot of trash over the last few years, mainly while Mark Warburton and Pedro Caixinha were in charge, and one of the worst signings made was Joe Dodoo from Leicester in 2016.
The 23-year-old cost the Light Blues £250,000 in compensation fees [Daily Record] when he swapped the East Midlands for Glasgow, but since then his value has more than likely dropped with a failed spell at Ibrox as well as an agonizing loan spell with Charlton last season.
Dodoo returned to Rangers earlier than expected last term, but has since found his feet when Steven Gerrard loaned the Ibrox reject out to Blackpool in the summer after it was reported by the Daily Record that the Gers boss told him to find a new club.
While he has not played that much, the ex-Leicester kid is on a solid scoring run by netting three goals in his last two outings and now, according to the Blackpool Gazette, he is within a chance of earning his first league start since September when Blackpool take on Southend this weekend.
Director of football Mark Allen will surely be licking his lips over the news that Dodoo is performing well at the moment and given the fact that he could be back in Blackpool’s starting line-up, his transfer value is bound to rise.
It’s only the middle of November and a lot of football is to be played between now and the end of Dodoo’s loan deal at Bloomfield Road but if he continues to impress in the way he has done, there’s no reason that he should be worth more than the quarter-of-a-million that was spent on him in 2016, and that would add a fairly decent sum of money to Allen and Gerrard’s transfer budget in 2019.