Rangers striker Youssef Chermiti will be sidelined for a "significant period of time" after suffering an ACL injury.
The Portuguese forward was taken off on a stretcher in the first half of Sunday's match against Hibernian, after receiving treatment. He was seen leaving Ibrox in a moon boot and a knee brace.
Following assessment, striker Youssef Chermiti suffered an ACL injury in Sunday’s match with Hibernian. Youssef will be out of action for a significant period of time. 💙 Everyone at Rangers is with him as he begins his recovery. pic.twitter.com/QNbINm3rhQ
— Rangers Football Club (@RangersFC) August 11, 2026
Rangers have now confirmed the seriousness of the injury, which is a significant blow for manager Derek McInnes as he loses a key player for crucial upcoming fixtures.
Ahead of the Hibs match, Rangers had reportedly rejected a £22 million bid from Galatasaray for Chermiti. The club's hierarchy were not interested in doing business at this price point, as they continue to build McInnes' squad.
At a meeting with shareholders and supporters in Glasgow on Monday morning, club chairman Andrew Cavenagh explained the club's stance on potential player sales. He said: "We won’t ever speak about individual deals and individual players, but we will give you the concepts and it will probably get you to where you want to.
"When we think about selling a player, there are two things that have to come together. One is that we get the value that is appropriate for the player and the second is that there is time left in the window that we can reinvest those funds quickly and efficiently to be equal or better from a sporting perspective.
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"If both of those things don’t exist, we won’t do a deal. We are not under pressure to sell. That is the mentality when you think about these deals."
Cavenagh also addressed the decision to include Chermiti in the starting line-up despite the transfer offer. He said: "The sporting side has to come first for us.
"And to the comment about why would you play a player who had a transfer offer? Going from an offer to where a player goes out the door, there is a huge number of things that have to happen before you would pull a player out of a line-up, again impacting sporting.
"Just because someone lobs an unsolicited offer in on one sheet of paper, you don’t yank a player from a really important match."
