Michael Ball watched with frustration as Kieran Dowell found his Goodison pathway blocked by a succession of big-money flops.
But the former Everton and Rangers ace reckons the former Toffees kid is just what Michael Beale needs to put his Ibrox side back on the road to recovery. The out-of contract Norwich ace is close to finalising a summer switch to Glasgow having shaken hands on a three-year Gers deal. And retired Light Blues hero Ball is confident the 25-year-old playmaker will prove to be right up the Ibrox faithful’s street now he's finally been given the chance to shine.
Although highly-rated as he made his way through the Everton youth ranks, Dowell found the route to a regular first-team slot on Merseyside closed off as new owner Farhad Moshiri pursued a new policy of chasing expensive, high-profile recruits. There’s not been much return on that costly outlay in the years since with Sean Dyche’s side now relegation-threatened outfit desperately searching for an avenue of escape from the Premier League drop zone.
