It is clear’… Philippe Clement makes prediction about 22-year-old Rangers midfielder

The Belgian spoke honestly about the player trading model he wants to help control at Ibrox alongside director of football Nils Koppen, who is also working through his first transfer window in Glasgow. Ivorian midfielder Diomande signed initially on loan yesterday and will then make a reported £4.3m permanent switch from Nordsjaelland to Rangers in the summer.

Nils Koppen named some of the qualities 22-year-old Diomande will bring to the first-team and is looking forward to seeing him offering his services to the club. How long that will be for is unknown – it will all depend on how much of a success Diomande can be with Gers.

Clement stressed that Diomande is the type of signing Rangers want to be making. The club simply cannot splash out £10m plus on individual talents so must work smartly to ensure that they players they buy have the potential to be worth millions more in the future.

And he thinks Diomande can be one of those ‘intelligent’ signings. Clement told the written press on Friday, as quoted in the Daily Record: “An assessment is made by the whole club, what he (Diomande) is worth now and what he can be worth in the future. Clement told the written press on Friday, as quoted in the Daily Record: “An assessment is made by the whole club, what he (Diomande) is worth now and what he can be worth in the future. We don’t have an investor who invests every year crazy money into the club every time.

We are not a club like that so we need to build a model to gain value out of the players that you bring in or that come out of your academy. And to do intelligent moves at the right time. “That needs to be the model for the next couple of years and not getting players out of contract, for example, and we have talked about that in the past. It is important that the club earns money through transfers and can grow in the future. Everybody is working for that.”

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