Rangers told they ‘should’ sign Premiership star who can follow Lyall Cameron to Ibrox

A Rangers audition was well and truly aced last weekend as Barry Ferguson’s side survived an almighty scare before Cyriel Dessers shattered Dundee hearts.

Now, it wasn’t quite as spectacular as the Cristiano Ronaldo performance which encouraged Manchester United to make the blonde-tipped Sporting Lisbon wonderkid the player to inherit David Beckham’s famous number seven shirt back in 2003.

But, not for the first time this year, Josh Mulligan showed that Andy Halliday might have been onto something when the former Ibrox midfielder urged Rangers to bring the Dundee roadrunner to Glasgow.

Halliday, back in early January, suggested that both Lyall Cameron and the aforementioned Mulligan should be under consideration on the blue side of the city. A few weeks later, a beaming Nils Koppen secured Cameron’s signature on a pre-contract arrangement.

Now, with Mulligan’s Dens Park deal also set to expire at the end of June – and with Koppen insisting that Ibrox will always be home to the best young talent in Scotland – there is a chance that the Dundee teammates could be reunited in a new dressing room soon enough.

Rangers urged to sign Dundee’s Josh Mulligan for a second time

Josh Mulligan was at his rampaging best when Dundee held Rangers to a 1-1 draw shortly after the Hogmanay celebrations died down.

Three months on, with Rangers returning to Dens Park and this time triumphing by the odd goal in seven, the all-action right-sider again did his chances of following Cameron up the ladder no harm at all.

Suddenly, Halliday is not the only one suggesting that a future in the Old Firm may await the Scotland Under-21 international.

Celtic and Rangers should be going for him,” says Paul Slane, the one-time Hoops prospect who played under Barry Ferguson at Clyde.