Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Gers bring in Kent and Celts seal Taylor deal in late transfer business
RANGERS and Celtic finally got their men as Ryan Kent and Greg Taylor completed moves to Glasgow in the final hours of the Scottish transfer window.
Rangers announced the return of Kent just after midnight after completing their biggest piece of summer business.
Manager Steven Gerrard had claimed any d e a d l i n e - d a y a r r i va l s would have to come “out of the blue” after he wrote off the chances of bringing back Kent days earlier.
But Rangers are understood to have agreed to pay Liverpool a guaranteed £6.5 million fee to sign the 22-year-old winger after failing to persuade the European champions to sanction a second season on loan. Another £1m will be due for add-ons and Liverpool negotiated a 20% sell-on clause.
Liverpool rejected bids of about £5m from Leeds and Krasnodar last month and there was f urther interest from France and Belgium, with Rangers stepping i n after Club Brugge made a firm move for the PFA Scotland Young Player of the Year.
The I brox club also offloaded four players who were out of the first-team picture. Jake Hastie joined Rotherham and Jason Holt moved to St Johnstone (see left), both on seasonlong loans, while Graham Dorrans and Joe Dodoo agreed deals to terminate their contracts.
Scotland left-back Taylor signed a four-year contract after a “whirlwind” day which saw him get the nod at 5pm to leave the Scotland camp after Celtic reached a deal with Kilmarnock for the 21-year-old.
Celtic loaned out three players. Anthony Ralston went to St Johnstone (see left), Jack Aitchison joined Forest Green and Ewan Henderson moved to Ross County.