Overview
- A deal announced Thursday saw Rangers sign 26‑year‑old Ivor Pandur from Hull City on a reported £6m four‑year contract while Jack Butland completed a move to Hull on a two‑year deal with a club option for a further year.
- Pandur was Hull’s near‑ever‑present last season, kept clean sheets across the Championship play‑off semi‑finals and final, and is viewed by Rangers as a younger, long‑term successor between the posts.
- Butland leaves Rangers after three seasons and more than 150 appearances to return to English football with Hull, bringing Premier League experience and nine England caps as the Tigers’ first summer signing.
- The transfers have a clear financial angle: Rangers reduce a high earner on their wage bill while Hull’s sale of Pandur helped the club balance books and meet Profit & Sustainability Rules as they prepare for the top flight.
- Both managers now have their new keepers early in the window, with Derek McInnes and Sergej Jakirovic set to integrate Pandur and Butland into pre‑season planning and their squads for the coming campaigns.