Darius Olaru is a perfect illustration of where Rangers recruiting might have gone in the previous several seasons.
Players like the Romanian international have previously been identified as potential targets, only for budget acquisitions like Kieran Dowell to be signed instead.
To add salt to the wound, Darius Olaru is in form that puts Rangers’ whole midfield to disgrace.
Michael Beale is trying to get his forwards to score, much alone his midfielders, but the statistics speak for themselves.
Olaru, Darius the one that eluded the Rangers
Steaua Bucharest’s Darius Olaru has six goals and two assists in ten league appearances.
Todd Cantwell, Nico Raskin, Jose Cifuentes, Dowell, John Lundstram, Kieranand Ryan Jack have combined for one goal in all competitions.
Rangers’ title-winning season saw players like Scott Arfield and Joe Aribo score and assist in double digits, give or take, and this is an area where the Gers’ manager must be more daring.
Cifuentes and Cantwell, in particular, came from former teams where they were deployed as offensive midfielders, but Beale has yet to release the handbrake that he promised when he initially arrived.
