It's no exaggeration to sum up Connor Goldson’s Rangers journey as the redemption story of a man once written off amid worries over ticker trouble now transformed into the true beating heart of this Ibrox line-up. His move to Glasgow had come just 18 months after he’d been diagnosed with a life-threatening cardiac issue which required urgent surgery.
Doctors at his previous club Brighton had spotted an enlarged aorta heart valve during a routine screening. Left unchecked, it could have proved fatal. So the decision by Steven Gerrard to make the big Englishman one of his first signings in the summer of 2018 didn’t come without doubts.
All transfers are loaded with an element of risk, but at £3million Gerrard was taking a mighty punt on a centre-back who had played just eight games for the Seagulls following his operation by the time the new Ibrox gaffer travelled to the south coast to persuade him to join his Rangers’ revolution. It was a decision which has paid of handsomely for the Govan outfit.
