In a few days, Jose Cifuentes will travel to Brazil to complete the Rangers’ departure.

The Glasgow Times reports that Jose Cifuentes, a midfielder for the Rangers, will be leaving Ibrox this week and joining Cruzeiro in Brazil.

The Ecuadorian midfielder was given permission to leave Rangers less than six months after joining, according to a story published on the Scottish news outlet’s website on February 4. He was informed that Philippe Clement had already made all the necessary arrangements and that he was no longer included in his plans.

The 24-year-old rejected down offers to move to Turkey during the transfer season because he wanted to return to South America in time for the Copa America competition this summer. It now appears that he will be completing a loan move to Brazil.

Rangers surprise

It would have been difficult to find a supporter of Cifuentes’ midfield abilities when he joined the team in the summer transfer window.

He appeared to possess all the necessary qualities—strong ball handling, excellent defensive tactical awareness, and exceptional physical attributes—to travel to Scotland and have a significant impact.

However, he was tardy in arriving in Glasgow, and with Michael Beale having a difficult time, he was unable to have any kind of impact. Given his injuries and lack of motivation to improve the situation, Clement’s choice to approve his departure was evidently simple.

Although it’s surprising that the signing flopped so horribly, Clement has plenty of reasons to let Mohammed Diomane go, and it’s the appropriate move to break things off early.

Fortunately, it’s all likely going to come to a head this week. If Cifuentes wants out and wants to be somewhere else, let him go and the club can easily forget this transaction ever happened.

In other Rangers news, Chris Sutton issues a “prepare to fail” title warning.