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title: "Rangers must sign a goalkeeper after Jon McLaughlin error"
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author: "Cameron Winstanley"
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published: "2023-02-05T13:05:42Z"
modified: "2023-02-05T13:05:42Z"
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# Rangers must sign a goalkeeper after Jon McLaughlin error

**Journalist Jonny McFarlane believes [Rangers](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/rangers-fc-news/) need to sign a new goalkeeper in the summer after Jon McLaughlin’s error gifted Ross County an equaliser in the Gers’ 2-1 win at Ibrox.**

### **The Lowdown: Rangers’ goalkeepers**

Rangers have seen plenty of rotation in goal recently, with Allan McGregor and McLaughlin sharing the shot-stopping duties amid the uncertain future of the 41-year-old, who sees his contract expire in the summer ([salary sport](https://salarysport.com/football/player/allan-mcgregor/)).

Gers legend McGregor is closing in on 500 appearances in total for his boyhood side (via [Rangers](https://www.rangers.co.uk/player/allan-mcgregor/63BcMdJh7Ijj01NYey8wWv)), with him in his second spell in Glasgow and entering his 16th year as a Rangers player.

McGregor has played [23](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/glasgow-rangers/leistungsdaten/verein/124) times all season, with McLaughlin on his tail with 16, while the latter’s start against Ross County on Saturday afternoon was his first time back in the [SPFL](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/scottish-premiership-news/) side since sitting out the previous two games.

### **The Latest: McFarlane’s comments**

Writing in his player ratings after the game on [The Rangers Review](https://www.rangersreview.co.uk/features/23299703.detailed-rangers-player-ratings-cantwell-electrifies-ibrox/), McFarlane left a rather scathing assessment of the McLaughlin’s 4/10 performance, as well as his credentials as a future No 1 and successor to McGregor.

He wrote: “Spoiled his performance with a calamity in dealing with a ball into the box. Not for the first time this season, the experienced ‘keeper was caught in no man’s land at a cross and Jordan White profited with an easy header. If he had stayed on his line rather than coming and missing the ball, it would have been a simple save.

“Nearly had another disaster, a carbon copy of the first, in the 91st minute. The goalkeeper position continues to be an area of major concern that will have to be rectified in the summer.”

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### **The Verdict: Not good enough?**

With McGregor set to leave Ibrox come the end of the season, the No 1 shirt is completely up for grabs, with McLaughlin being given every chance he could wish for to make the spot his own, but again he disappointed.

A poor mistake as he misjudged the free-kick that saw Jordan White head into an open net is something that Michael Beale simply can’t risk in a first-choice ‘keeper, especially before getting himself in a mess in injury time to almost throw the lead away for a second time.

At 35 years old himself, he doesn’t have the safety net of youth, inexperience or high potential to merit himself a place and backing in the side.

With only [two](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/rangers-fc/transfers/verein/124/plus/?saison_id=2022&pos=&detailpos=&w_s=w) arrivals coming last month, Beale will surely be backed in the window and a new ‘keeper appear to be fast becoming one of the priorities.