Jack Butland: Rangers sign goalkeeper on four-year deal | Football News

Rangers have signed goalkeeper Jack Butland on a pre-contract, topic to worldwide clearance.

The 30-year-old, who has 9 England caps, will formally transfer to Ibrox on July 1 after agreeing a four-year deal, following the expiry of his contract at Crystal Palace.

Butland had been on mortgage at Manchester United this season and can compete with Jon McLaughlin and Robby McCrorie to grow to be Rangers’ new No 1 after Allan McGregor’s departure on the finish of his deal.

Manager Michael Beale has already signed teenager Dujon Sterling from Chelsea and midfielder Kieran Dowell from Norwich.

‘This is a large alternative for me’

Speaking after signing for Rangers, Butland mentioned: “I’m over the moon. The membership speaks for itself. No matter the place you might be in soccer, you realize about Rangers Football Club. This is a large alternative for me, and I’m delighted to be right here.

“I really feel nice and motivated on the age that I’m, and I really feel excited at what the long run holds. Doing that at a membership that’s equally as obsessed with successful and being on the high was large for me.

“It’s an important summer for the club and we need to get off to a good start. Getting the work done early is hugely important, so that we’re settled and raring to go when we come back in.”

Beale added: “I am delighted that we have recruited Jack. It was clear from our first meeting that we have a strong alignment on football and his development moving forward.

“At 30, he’s coming into the prime years of his profession having already amassed large expertise with 300 appearances in senior soccer, together with nearly 90 within the Premier League.

“In addition, he has played for England at every level, including nine caps for the senior team and five for the Great Britain Olympic team. I feel that we have recruited an excellent goalkeeper and, importantly, a top person. We are delighted to have Jack and his young family arriving in Glasgow and look forward to seeing him excel in his time at Rangers.”

How do Rangers win the league subsequent season?

Gers boss Beale has made no secret of his want so as to add a number of new faces to his squad earlier than the gamers return for pre-season coaching.

Alfredo Morelos, Ryan Kent, McGregor and Scott Arfield had been among the many end-of-season departures – with Beale now wanting to herald gamers who can “grow for the next two or three seasons”.

On how he plans to catch Celtic, the Ibrox boss informed Sky Sports: “We start how we’re ending with our style being very clear, our energy being very strong on the pitch in terms of our pressing and the bits out of possession.

“We’ll look to recruit a backbone that is enabled to remain at Rangers for the subsequent three to 5 years to construct on.

“You’ve seen the start of that with Nico Raskin and Todd Cantwell coming in and Kieran Dowell. We’ll look to add to that with a little bit of experience but certainly in terms of quality in the final third.

“You’ll have the ability to inform by my face firstly of pre-season whether or not I’ve been profitable in getting everybody that I would like however both approach we’ll come again into pre-season subsequent 12 months with a couple of new concepts that I’ve needed to implement. We must go and recruit a sure sort of participant for that. We’ll come again stronger.

“Our league form in the last 24 games would say if we can get to that stage where we are now, we’ll be in the mix. It’ll be about getting to the March international break where we need to be and then going for it.”

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