Injury woe continues for ex Rangers star as 'setback' hits Birmingham City loanee at rival club

A former Rangers star has suffered more frustration at a fellow Premiership club following his winter loan move from Birmingham City.

Wright spent between 2021-2024 at Rangers, starting the Europa League final, winning the league and scoring in the 2022 Scottish Cup final win over Hearts. He joined Birmingham City after Ibrox but had played just six minutes for Chris Davies’ team before heading to Dens Park in January. He’s not got properlu going in Tayside either amid continued fitness issues.

Now ahead of this weekend’s game against St Mirren, Dundee boss Steven Pressley admits another small setback has put him back in the doubt category, as the Dark Blues look to strive towards league safety. Birmingham City loanee Wright has made seven Dundee appearances this term and played 69 minutes of last weekend’s 3-0 loss against Dundee United.

How is Scott Wright doing at Dundee on loan from Birmingham City?

Pressley said: "We have only one player who is a doubt at present in Scott Wright. It's been a frustrating time for him. When he came in he had a couple of games where he made a good impression coming off the bench, and then we thought he was getting closer. He played last weekend but he's had a slight setback.

"I'm not saying he'll definitely not be ready for the weekend, but there is a doubt about him. "It was always the concern we had when bringing him in, as he'd not played that much. There was that little bit of a gamble where we understood Scott's qualities, but there were concerns around injuries he's had. It's been frustrating for him. Clark Robertson has trained so that's good. The weekend is probably too early for him but he's got through a week of training with no adverse reactions."

Wright said of his Dundee stint last month: “I’m not naive enough to think that I’ll just be able to click my fin­gers and I’ll be able to switch it back on again. It’s going to take time phys­ic­ally and men­tally to try and hit the pro­cess and the mark­ers I’m want­ing to.

Scott Wright goals at Dundee

“But I’m cer­tainly tick­ing a lot more off than I would have been if I wasn’t play­ing. I’m feel­ing healthy and strong. Obvi­ously I want to play as much as I can and get as much minutes as I can. That’s really import­ant for me and I want to do that hand in hand with try­ing to help the team here as well.

“The team’s been play­ing great so it’s just about try­ing to get my oppor­tun­ity and tak­ing that. There’s a lot of com­pet­i­tion, the team’s been play­ing really well so it’s the case of if I get an oppor­tun­ity com­ing off the bench or com­ing from the start to try and bring my qual­it­ies to help the team as much as I can.

“I think you can see the strength we’ve got and every­body brings their own indi­vidual qual­ity to the team. As a col­lect­ive, I think we’ve been suc­cess­ful in that. It’s just try­ing to move that on and move the needle.”