Rangers' Loovens bid hits glitch
Rangers want Loovens to bolster their central defence
Rangers appear to have hit a stumbling block in their attempts to sign Cardiff City defender Glenn Loovens.
BBC Scotland has learned that the Ibrox club are prepared to offer striker Kris Boyd as part of the deal to bring the Dutchman to Glasgow.
In addition, Rangers want Cardiff to pay them £800,000 to balance the deal.
However, Cardiff have rejected the bid as the Championship side believe it is Rangers and not they who should be making the extra payment.
Manager Walter Smith has added Kenny Miller, Andrius Velicka and Kyle Lafferty to the current pool of strikers comprising Jean-Claude Darcheville, Daniel Cousin, Nacho Novo and Boyd.
Fulham's interest in Cousin appears to have ended, leaving Rangers keen to sell one or two strikers in order to help finance other deals.
Boyd voiced concerns at the end of last season that he wasn't being given enough opportunities to play for the first team.
The Scottish international was then the subject of a £2.5 million bid from Cardiff last month, which Rangers rejected.
Despite Rangers and David Weir agreeing a deal to keep the veteran defender at Ibrox for another season, Smith is keen to add another central defender to the squad.
Loovens has been capped at under-21 level by the Netherlands and starred for Cardiff in the FA Cup final in May. He signed a three-year deal in May 2006, having been on loan from Feyenoord the previous season. Loovens, 24, will be entering the final year of his contract with the Bluebirds and this is likely to be weighing on Cardiff chairman Peter Ridsdale's mind in his dealings with interested clubs
wtf is going on at ibrox there trying to get kris boyd out! are they daft kris boyd out kenny miller in rangers fans must be going off there nut 
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