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Scottish Sun
3 days ago
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- Scottish Sun
Rangers star Cyriel Dessers ‘adds £1.5million onto price tag' with timely goal on international duty for Nigeria
Read on to see the goal in full NICE ONE, CYRIEL Rangers star Cyriel Dessers 'adds £1.5million onto price tag' with timely goal on international duty for Nigeria IT's not often that a team's top goalscorer is one of the players fans want sold ahead of a new season. But such is the enigma of Cyriel Dessers, that it's the case for many a Rangers supporter. 3 Cyriel Dessers opened the scoring for Nigeria in their game against Ghana Credit: PREMIER SPORTS 3 He then jumped into the crowd to celebrate Credit: PREMIER SPORTS 3 And was mobbed by fans Credit: PREMIER SPORTS And he may just have added to his transfer value with a timely goal on international duty for Nigeria. The 30-year-old striker hit the net for the Super Eagles in the 14th minute of their Unity Cup clash against Ghana. Dessers hit 29 goals across all competitions for Gers this season but he is somewhat of a pariah amongst the Ibrox faithful. The £4.5m signing from Cremonese has a tendency to miss so-called big chances, but is often praised for his work rate. With new ownership due to takeover at Ibrox this summer, there's a chance each and every player will have a for-sale sign attached to them. Dessers has a contract that runs until 2027 and after his international exploits, Gers fans reckon his price tag will have increased. He opened the scoring after 14 minutes after being handed a start in the match at the Brentford Community Stadium. Dessers took up a position inside the Ghana penalty box as Sodiq Ismaila charged down the right flank and swung a ball into the area. The Rangers forward took a touch with his chest, composed himself and then rolled the ball with his right foot past Benjamin Asare and into the bottom left-hand corner of the net. After jumping into the crowd to celebrate, Rangers fans on social media began to speculate about the impact of the goal on Dessers' market value. Rangers icon Paul Gascoigne makes surprise Match of the Day appearance as footie greats pay tribute to Gary Lineker One fan said: "Can debate his merits and shortcomings all season, he gets goals, but I think we should sell him, and not for all the frustrations over the season, but because his value will never be higher than right now. "Sell and reinvest, isn't that the model?" Another said: "Should make a bit of profit this summer on the big man." And in a similar vein, this fan said: "The Nigerian Nightmare adding money onto his value." One fan went a step further by placing an actual figure on it. They said: "Another £1.5 million added onto the price tag." Another fan suggested it would be a lesser amount he'd added to his value with the strike, but nonetheless reached the same conclusion that he should be sold this summer. They said: "Extra million on the transfer fee. One of those high earners that the 49ers will trim off the wage bill." Nigeria would go on to win the game 2-1. Keep up to date with ALL the latest news and transfers at the Scottish Sun football page
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Security Would Have To Be There'
Kamaru Usman returns from a year and a half away from the sport in June to take on Joaquin Buckley in a battle for welterweight contender status. And while we could be witnessing a changing of the guard from one generation to the next, there's unfinished business between Usman and current 170 pound champion Belal Muhammad. While the footage has never been released, Usman and Muhammad reportedly got into a brawl on the set of Kamaru's Pound 4 Pound podcast last year. In a new interview with ESPN, 'The Nigerian Nightmare discussed the incident and his feelings towards 'Remember The Name.' Advertisement 'There's allegedly a lot of speculation, you know?' he said of the podcast fist fight. 'A lot of things being said.' 'Belal is a guy that was always around and I never really paid attention to because I was doing what I needed to do,' Usman said. 'I was always fighting the next guy up, next guy up. I didn't really pay attention to Belal. But now that I'm forced to actually look at Belal, he's not bad. He's just good everywhere. And that's been working for him. So he's not bad. I'm never in any way discrediting that.' 'Once I was forced to pay attention to him, I started to kinda see the antics that go on outside of the cage, and I was never that guy. If I was champion and the next guy up was barking at me, then of course I would respond and then we get in there and we'd settle it. But Belal just seems to be a different type of champion who is willing to make memes and get on Twitter because he wants the attention. He craves that attention.' 'Even if you're a guy that's not in his division, he's willing to have that back and forth with you,' Usman continued. 'And for me, I just find it a little bit distasteful and I wasn't a part of it. Then he became champion, and he started to come at me with that energy. It was like, 'Oh, you have a problem with me? Well, if you have a problem, I don't really play on the internet. Let's talk it out.' And so we invited him on a podcast and ... it went how it went.' Advertisement 'That's all I can say. Eventually, hopefully, we'll release that podcast because he was only there for like maybe ten minutes. It wasn't really long. And then it was over and he left.' While Usman has a reputation for being a chill dude, he said there would have to be security on hand to keep things from popping off if the two ran into each other again. 'Probably, yeah,' he told ESPN. 'I'm very level headed, especially when I'm outside of the cage. But for the last two years, I haven't been in the thick of it.' 'When you're in the thick of it, you're on alert all the time. Me and George St-Pierre, we had this conversation where he expressed that to me. He's like, 'When you're in it, you're always this defensive guy.' And I hadn't been that for a while, but now that I'm back in the thick of it, yeah. They probably have to have security back there with us.' Advertisement Belal Muhammad defends his welterweight title against Jack Della Maddalena at UFC 315 on May 10th. Kamaru Usman fight Joaquin Buckley in the main event of a June 14th Fight Night in Atlanta. What happens after that depends on who wins and who loses ... or if there's enough security around to stop something from going down outside the cage. More from
