Nicolas Raskin's Future at Rangers: Ambitions and Uncertainties

Nicolas Raskin is content at Rangers. That much is clear. Everything else about his future is wide open.

The 25-year-old midfielder has just put together a strong run of form, starting Rangers’ past seven games and capping it with his first goal of the season in the 2-2 draw at Dundee. For a player who spent part of the summer watching from the sidelines as speculation swirled around him, that matters.

“The hardest was not being able to play,” he admitted, reflecting on a window in which he was linked with a move away and left out of some squads. For an ambitious footballer, there are few crueller vantage points than the bench when rumours of a transfer are in the air.

Raskin has never hidden that ambition. He wants to climb, to test himself, to see how far he can go. He openly considered whether the period after the World Cup might be the right moment to seek a new challenge. The idea was there. The push was not.

“I've never been pushing for something because I'm really happy here,” he said. That line matters at a club like Rangers, where commitment is constantly scrutinised. “It's a big club. This club helped me join the Belgian national team, which is a big, big thing.”

Since arriving at Ibrox in January 2023, Raskin has racked up more than 150 club appearances and earned 22 senior caps for Belgium. Rangers gave him the platform; he has repaid it with energy, bite and a willingness to take responsibility in midfield.

Now, under a manager he describes as “amazing” with him, Raskin sounds settled in the present, even if the future remains hazy. January looms, as it always does in this sport, but he refuses to treat it like a countdown clock.

“I'm really calm with that. I don't need to push anything,” he said. “We've got loads of time before January. We try to make the best of it, try to win as many games as we can and I don't know what's going to happen.”

That uncertainty stretches beyond the winter window. His contract runs until the end of next season, and the obvious question is whether Rangers will move to tie him down longer term. On that, Raskin is blunt.

“I don't know, it's not up to me. It's up to the club.”

For now, his situation is stripped back to something simple: play well, keep his place, help Rangers win. The rest — the offers, the decisions, the direction of his career — will arrive soon enough.