Leon Balogun insists everyone at Rangers was 'heartbroken' when Steven Gerrard took the decision to leave the club last year.
The Nigerian centre-half enjoyed a good spell at Ibrox that was intermittently plagued by injury concerns despite winning the league title and the Scottish Cup. Under Gerrard's successor, however, Balogun fell on hard times and never featured regularly for Gio Van Bronckhorst after being a first-team star under the Liverpool icon. The big defender signed a one-year deal in 2021 but found himself out of Ibrox in the following summer.
The 34-year-old, whose departure did leave a certain void in defensive options, was then handed a career revival through now Rangers manager Michael Beale, after he took up his first permanent managerial role with Queens Park Rangers in the English Championship in the summer before jumping ship back to Glasgow.
