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If Rangers can afford the reported £7 million transfer fee required, well, this is a bit of a ‘no-brainer’ really for the Scottish Premiership runners-up in-waiting.

That is the view of both Simon Donnelly and Marvin Bartley, the two pundits completely in agreement when it comes to Rangers pursuing a permanent deal for a footballer who not only knows the league, has proven himself to be a bonafide matchwinenr at this level, and – most importantly of all – is open to putting pen to paper at Ibrox.

This week, speaking to the media back home in the Czech Republic, Vaclav Cerny opened the door to a future with Rangers.

The Wolfsburg loanee is entering the final two months of his loan spell. And while Cerny’s agent indicated a future in Italy or France awaits, the man himself is not in quite such a rush to say his goodbyes to a club who have build him up again after a difficult spell in Germany knocked his reputation for six.

“I definitely do,” Vaclav Cerny said when asked if he hopes to stay at Rangers. “But there are so many aspects that I can’t control. All I can do is be the best I can and keep up my form and numbers.”

Simon Donnelly says Rangers ‘would be daft’ not to sign Vaclav Cerny

The ‘numbers’ certainly haven’t been a problem.

Cerny took his tally to 17 with that Istanbul brace as Rangers tore Jose Mourinho’s Fenerbahce side apart on the counter attack a fortnight ago. And while he might not have got on the scoresheet in the return leg, or during Sunday’s 3-2 triumph over Old Firm rivals Celtic, Cerny was still a constant thorn in the opposition’s side.

Donnelly, who spent six years at Parkhead in the 1990s, feels that Rangers ‘would be daft’ not to grab such an opportunity with both hands.