New Rangers signing, Fabio Silva, expresses confidence that he doesn’t need to prove himself at Ibrox, according to Andy Newport in La Manga.
The Wolves striker, on loan until the season ends, aims for a fresh start after facing challenges in securing a spot in Gary O’Neil’s Molineux side, despite his high-profile £35 million transfer from Porto in 2019, which has yielded five goals in 73 appearances.
Last season’s loan spells at Anderlecht and PSV Eindhoven were more successful, with the Portugal Under-21 player netting 16 goals in Belgium and Holland. Despite this, doubts persist among fans in England regarding his suitability for the Premier League.
Speaking from the Gers’ winter training camp in La Manga, Silva confidently retorts: “I don’t need to think like that. I don’t need to prove anything to anyone.”
Silva, Philippe Clement’s inaugural signing for Rangers, believes the experienced Belgian manager can assist him in recapturing the form that earned him his move to Wolves four-and-a-half years ago.
He stated: “I’m a player who likes to feel the confidence from the staff and the players. And of course the coach was really key in me coming here.”
Celtic were rumoured to be monitoring the new Ibrox recruit before Clement secured his signature. Silva sees Ibrox as the ideal place to enhance his medal collection, especially as Rangers prepare for a significant second half of the season, targeting success in the Premiership, Scottish Cup, and Europa League after winning the Viaplay Cup.
“Everyone knows I had a lot of chances to go to other clubs on loan too. But I’m an ambitious player, I want to compete for titles and to win things.”
Silva gone to Rangers . Not more than 4or5 big clubs in Scotland so won’t really prove his talent there . Done nothing at Wolves just don’t think he can handle
premiership football.
We’re still in the Europa League too mate. The likes of Bruno Alves, Ian Wright and Roy Keane thought Scottish football would be a cake walk, but they all flopped. The league is poorly promoted by a clueless SFA, plus the likes of the BBC and Sky, whose wokery highlights the women’s game ahead of us. Outside of the Old Firm, the Edinburgh Derby is a proper old skool battle, we had Aberdeen beating Eintracht Frankfurt in Europe, and some excellent young players coming through in various teams. John McGinn was not the best player in Scotland when he played at Hibs, though he was one of them. Rangers and Celtic been to 3 European finals in 20 years…not bad for a pub league.
£4M a year for what exactly.
Transfer needs investigating.
The problem is Silva is just not a proven goal-scorer – period !
He runs around like a headless chicken with full of enthusiam – but just can’t head a ball or shoot at goal powerfully – it’s always powder-puff or haphazadous stuff and ends up with another missed chance which a proven goal-scorer would have gobbled up..
It’s a shame – nice bloke – but is just not a natural finisher sadly..
Good luck Fabio. Hope it’s a successful time at Rangers from a Wolves season ticket holder
You’ll be OK at Rangers Silva they are in a league on a par with our league one, yes they win honours because there is no competition unlike our premiership.
“Our premiership” is all made up of foreigners, and its greatest every manager is Scottish lmao. Without the foreigners, you would be league one!