Nottingham Forest agree bargain £500,000 deal to land Rangers winger Barrie McKay
22-year-old could fly out to Florida to join his new team-mates in the next 24 hours
NOTTINGHAM FOREST have agreed a bargain £500,000 deal to take Rangers winger Barrie McKay to the City Ground.
The 22-year-old could fly out to Florida to join his new teammates within 24 hours if the deal is completed today.
McKay’s capture would be a major coup for Forest boss Mark Warburton who worked with the talented left-winger at Ibrox.
Forest have beaten Cardiff City to land McKay and would normally have expected to pay at least three-times the price they have agreed with Rangers.
However McKay has entered the final year of his contract and has refused to sign a new deal since it was offered to him in April.
McKay's refusal to put pen to paper once Rangers returned for pre-season training saw him sentenced to training with the Ibrox Under-20s after being frozen out by Gers’ new boss Pedro Caixinha.
However Warburton will be delighted to land one of Scotland’s most promising kids, who has made over 100 appearances for the Glasgow giants and helped Warburton win the Championship title and promotion in 2015-16.
The former Brentford boss left Rangers in February and has already returned to Scotland to sign Hibs’ striker Jason Cummings from Hibernian, after saving Forest from relegation on the final day of last season.
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He will regard McKay’s signing as a major achievement as the exciting young winger has already broken into Gordon Strachan’s Scotland squad, winning his first senior cap in a friendly against France last summer.
Forest kick-off their Championship campaign at home to Millwall before travelling to Brentford a week later.