it's less than half that amount, plus he'd get more chances at rangers
He's had a 4 month purple patch this season but outside that, and since then his goalscoring is very poor outwith penalties.
Last season he only scored 14 from open play.
Season before 5 from open play.
Season before that again he scored 8 from open play.
Those numbers are worse than you'd have got from a Lewis Moult or similar level striker before this. But Moult wasn't a penalty merchant. Should we have signed him?
Lewis Moult, played 91, scored 39, 14 assists.
Lawrence Shankland, played 101, scored 42, 12 assists.
Shankland has scored only 3 more from open play than Dessers this season despite playing over 1000 minutes more football. Dessers has 6 more assists than him too.
That's nowhere near Rangers striker levels. Dessers is a better player and isn't the answer either, but atleast be works hard, can run and gets assists, closes players down, can play up top on his own and does press.
Fair enough if Shankland was on a free as a backup, is take him. But he also struggles to run and with fitness, would being a sub be any good?