MICHAEL FERGUSON LOOKS BACK AT AN EXTRAORDINARY TRANSFER TALE

Transfer target: The Brazilian Ronaldo playing for Inter Milan Inset: Marco Negri in action for Rangers

IN JULY 1997, having just secured a ninth league title in a row, what better way was there for Rangers to make the next step in their progression to being a genuine European force than by signing the biggest name in world football, Ronaldo?
That’s not the six-pack wielding Portuguese but the Brazilian striker who had spent the previous season taking La Liga by storm and was just a year away from World Cup 1998 infam...