A look at what Rangers will do in the January transfer market – according to Football Manager 2026.
While results have started to improve to some extent, it’s fair to say that Rangers’ season hasn’t exactly gone according to plan. They head into this weekend a full 14 points off the top of the Scottish Premiership table, they’ve already had to sack their manager, and they may need to be active in January to build a team capable of challenging for silverware of any kind this season.
Working out what Rangers will do in the upcoming transfer window isn’t an easy task given that there are so many areas in which they could be improved, so in order to glean some insight as to what moves they might make, we turned to the most advanced simulation of the footballing future we have at our disposal – Football Manager 2026.
We loaded up a game and sent it a year into the future to find out what changes the Ibrox club made over the winter, and to see whether it made much of a difference. Will the game have a realistic handle of what the club does this January? Let’s find out…
Rangers sign Bournemouth man & Serie A stars in January – according to Football Manager 2026
Cas Odenthal – £1m from Sassuolo: The Dutch centre-back has lost his place at Sassuolo in real life, and thus makes a perfectly realistic transfer target for Rangers in the game – a solid performer, Odenthal became a regular starter and a very useful member of the squad.
Adrien Tamèze – £1m from Torino: A defensive midfielder and Rangers’ second addition from Serie A, Tamèze is getting a little long in the tooth – he was 32 by the time he moved to Ibrox – but would be a solid defensive anchor in real life who is a rotational member of the genuine Torino squad. Another regular starter in the game.
Dominik Takáč – £1.1m from Slovan Bratislava: The single biggest outlay made in a busy but cost-controlled window was for a back-up goalkeeper. Takáč still hadn’t made an appearance for Rangers by the end of the season and was ultimately just an expensive bench-warmer.
