Controversial Liverpool defender Jon Flanagan has joined Steven Gerrard at Glasgow Rangers after being released by the Reds at the end of the season.
Jon Flanagan has signed for Glasgow Rangers joining his manager and former teammate Steven Gerrard in the Scottish Premier League. The right back was released from the club at the end of his contract last week.
The lifelong Liverpool player ended his career at Anfield in controversy. In January 2018 he was sentenced by Liverpool magistrates court for common assault after beating his girlfriend Rachael Wall in a drunken night out.
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He received a 12-month community service order after slamming his partner into the wall. Upon the court decision there was a huge swell of calls among the Liverpool fanbase for him to be immediately sacked.
However the club’s decision was not to fire him. Instead they felt a duty to help him and his partner with alcohol issues. They sent him on-loan to Bolton Wanderers for remainder of the 2017/18 season.
Many were glad that he was released at the beginning of this month. That is a sad finish to a Liverpool career where once he was loved by the supporters. He was the only Scouse member of the first team after Steven Gerrard’s departure until Trent Alexander-Arnold’s rise to prominence this year.
He had 51 first team appearances for the Reds under three different managers. His only goal came in the 5-0 thrashing of Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane in December 2013.
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The Reds have had two other players they have released sign for new clubs. Emre Can just signed a huge deal at Juventus after a year of speculation. Yan Dhanda already penned a new deal at relegated Swansea City after asking to be released to find more opportunity elsewhere.