Charlie Mulgrew enjoyed a laugh at Barry Ferguson over his nephew Lewis potentially choosing to join Celtic.
Ferguson Jr. has started less than half of Bologna’s games this season, despite being club captain. Linked away in the past, he looks set to finally depart this summer.
Rangers have been tipped as a potential destination, given the obvious family connections with his father Derek and uncle Barry.
Mulgrew couldn’t resist asking the simple question: would he not be better off joining the champions?
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The exchange on the Go Radio Football Show went as follows:
Ferguson: He’s the type of profile that you would want. Scottish, very good player. He’s been in and out of the Bologna team. Why would you not try and look at doing something?
Ferguson: But listen, it won’t just be Rangers that will be interested. There will be a number of clubs monitoring and seeing that he’s not playing week in week out.
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Ferguson: He’s going to a World Cup as well. You never know.”
Mulgrew: “Yeah, definitely [Celtic should be interested]. I just don’t know… if he had the choice of Celtic and Rangers, you know who he’s going to choose there, obviously being a Rangers fan, I’d imagine.”
Ferguson: “He knows I’ll not be talking to him again! See at the end of the day, you just want to see him do really well. He’s done brilliantly so far in his career.
Ferguson: “This season has been a bit strange. The Bologna manager changes his team quite a lot and Lewis has been in and out. If you asked Lewis himself, he’d want to be [playing] regularly.”
Mulgrew: “So, as your nephew, would you think the better move would be to go to the champions?”
Ferguson: “There’s only one move. He’d want to move to the bigger club and that’s obviously Rangers.”
Mulgrew: “Get those titles counted!”
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Rangers fans to play for Celtic
Boyhood Rangers fans playing for Celtic isn’t as uncommon as some would think, as we recently saw with Greg Taylor.
Make no mistake, the defender is now fully one of us, as he showed in a hilarious interaction with Kris Boyd last year.
Perhaps most famously, Kenny Dalglish and Danny McGrain, both legendary members of Celtic’s ‘Quality Street Gang’ of the 1970s, both grew up supporting Rangers.
Scott Allan, Kenny Miller and Lewis Morgan have all played for the Hoops as Rangers fans since the turn of the century.
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