Rangers make offer for Crystal Palace winger Jesurun Rak-Sakyi

Rangers make offer for Crystal Palace winger Jesurun Rak-Sakyi

 

 

Rangers have made an offer for Crystal Palace

winger Jesurun Rak-Sakyi.

 

The approach from the Scottish Premiership

club was for an initial loan with a potential

obligation to buy worth up to £10million.

 

The offer was rejected by Palace but Rangers’

pursuit of the 22-year-old remains ongoing and

there is interest from elsewhere.

Rak-Sakyi came through the youth ranks at

Chelsea before moving to Palace in 2019 and

signing a first professional deal with the club

back in 2021.

Rak-Sakyi has made 10 first-team appearances

for Palace and spent last season on loan in the

Championship with Sheffield United.

He played 36 times in all competitions, scoring

seven goals, as Chris Wilder’s side missed out on

promotion to the Premier League with defeat in

the playoff final.

Capped at Under-20 and Under-21 level by

England, Rak-Sakyi is also eligible to represent

Ghana through his parents.

Rangers have had a busy summer with Oscar

Cortes, Thelo Aasgaard, Joe Rothwell and Max

Aarons among a number of new arrivals.

New head coach Russell Martin kicked off his

tenure with a 2-0 win over Panathinaikos in the

second round of Champions League qualifying

on Tuesday.

Rak-Sakyi has been unsettled at Palace after a

disappointing season in 2023-24 where he was

not loaned out and overlooked for selection as

well as suffering from injury problems.

The 22-year-old was wanted previously by

Southampton when Martin was manager there,

and a loan with an option to buy was proposed,

only to fall well below Palace’s asking price. The

winger had been impressed by Martin’s sales

pitch and preferred a permanent departure but

no move was forthcoming.

After just six substitute appearances in the

Premier League that season, he was loaned to

Sheffield United last summer as he was not in

Palace manager Oliver Glasner’s plans. There he

played 1,743 minutes in the Championship.

His future at Palace remains uncertain, but they

had previously looked to the £20million fee

Chelsea received from Ipswich Town for Omari

Hutchinson as a benchmark as to his potential

value should he perform well out on loan. With

two years left on a five-year deal signed in

August 2022, there is no immediate rush for

Palace to make a decision on whether to sell,

but they will need to persuade him to sign fresh

terms if they want to achieve maximum value

in future.