Jonny McFarlane and Gavin Berry discussed all things Rangers on the most recent edition of the Record Rangers podcast and during the show, they spent some time talking about Glen Kamara.
Kamara has played quite regularly for the Gers this season, appearing in seven of the Glasgow-based club’s eight league games so far.
He has earned a less-than-stellar overall WhoScored rating of 6.8 from those seven appearances, with WhoScored ranking him as Rangers’ 14th-highest rated player in the league so far this term.
While discussing the Finnish midfielder’s style of play, Berry pointed out an area of Kamara’s game where he believes the 24-year-old is currently lacking.
He said: “Glen Kamara is so neat and tidy and a good player when he’s got time. [He has] maybe a kind of European style – he’s been linked with European clubs and all that.
“If he went to a Serie A [club] or somewhere like that where you get time on the ball, he probably would be very effective and probably could make that transition, but when you’re going to Hibs away, you’ve then got to be able to do the ugly side of it.
“That is what Rangers are lacking, they need a big monster in midfield.”
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As can be seen in what Berry had to say, it seems as though the journalist thinks that Kamara struggles with “the ugly side” of the game, suggesting that he is a good technical player on the ball, but he isn’t the “big monster” that the Gers “are lacking.”
Judging by Kamara’s stats in the league this season, we find it hard to disagree with this assessment of the £1.08m-rated midfielder.
As per WhoScored, In his seven Premiership appearances, the midfielder has made 0.4 tackles per game, which is fewer tackles than every other outfield Rangers player to have started a league game has made this term. He has also made just 0.7 interceptions per game, which is fewer interceptions than eight other Rangers players have made this season, suggesting that he is not a standout player on the defensive side of things.
However, his passing stats are much more impressive, with the 24-year-old having made the third-highest number of passes per league game (79.1) and the sixth-highest number of long-balls per league game (three) of any Rangers player this season.
Hopefully, for the Gers, they can figure out a way of playing which highlights Kamara’s strengths and hides his weaknesses, so that the player can be used in the most effective way possible.