Dailly Dallies

Christian Dailly will spend the next 24 hours weighing up a loan move to Rangers but he has indicated to the club that he is loath to uproot his family from their London home in order to come back to Scotland. Rangers, in the meantime, have told the West Ham United defender that their intention is purely to make the arrangement a four-month deal, and that the club does not wish him to organise a full-scale relocation out of London. "A lot of this talk about Christian is premature," Walter Smith, the Rangers manager, said yesterday. "Really, we’ve embarked on a sounding-out exercise with Christian, but no offer has been put to him yet. If nothing comes of it, fine, we’ll go with what we’ve got." Smith sees Dailly as one of a number of possible options to cover for Ugo Ehiogu, who has completed a move to Sheffield United.