Man of the second Calvin Bassey is catching eyes for each membership and nation.
He impressed for Rangers of their surge to the Europa League last and within the Scottish Cup victory, and is rounding off his marketing campaign with some spectacular showings for Nigeria.
That has seen the defender strongly linked with a transfer away from Ibrox to hitch ex-boss Steven Gerrard at Aston Villa.
The 22-year-old will possible demand a bumper switch payment if he's to maneuver south of the border, with a number of English Premier League monitoring the full-back.
Nevertheless, studies south of the border recommend that Gerrard might have a back-up plan to keep away from a Bassey bidding battle.
Birmingham Reside declare that Scotland cap Aaron Hickey is on a shortlist of left-back choices that Villa are weighing up this summer time.
Bologna are reportedly prepared to promote this summer time this summer time with a valuation of between £15million being touted in Italy forward of the window opening.
And Villa might have the within monitor with Hickey from his Hearts days with former Hearts coach Austin MacPhee working as a part of Gerrard's backroom crew.
MacPhee was working as Craig Levein's assistant when Hickey was handed his Jambos debut aged simply 16.
And since then, the full-back has solely gone from energy to energy.
The 19-year-old turned out 36 instances for Bologna and located the web 5 instances throughout his breakthrough marketing campaign for the Italian membership.
That has seen Steve Clarke welcome Hickey into the Scotland set-up, incomes two caps towards Poland and Austria within the warm-up video games for the Ukraine World Cup playoff.
Gerrard might look to make use of his Rangers connection to persuade Bassey to choose his facet this summer time.
But when it would not work out, he might flip to his set-piece coach to safe plan B.