‘He’s a joke’ – Exclusive: Brown delivers verdict on Rangers first-teamer
Jermain Defoe is still a major force at Rangers partly because his finishing is a “joke” and “as good as it gets”, according to Michael Brown.
Speaking exclusively to Football Insider, the ex-Tottenham midfielder explained why his former teammate still has so much to offer Steven Gerrard’s side.
Rangers tied Defoe to a new one-year contract in January that comes into effect when his 18-month loan from Bournemouth expires in the summer.
Defoe is currently working his way back from a calf injury but he already has 17 goals from just 1401 minutes of action this season, at a remarkable rate of one every 70 minutes.
Brown is in no doubt that the 37-year-old and the Light Blues suit one another perfectly at this stage of his career.
“In a team that you’re dominating chances in that league, you’re at the top of the league, you need someone to unlock or create a chance when it’s a tight game,” Brown told Football Insider. “There’s no one better than Jermain.
“His finishing when I played with him at Spurs is as good as it gets and anyone that’s been with him that you sit and talk to – [Darren] Benty will tell you – will say the same.
“His finishing is a joke, he’s a joke. No backlift, wanting to score, starving hungry, he just scores from anywhere.
“Left foot, pop, goal. Like from nothing, goal. Chance, goal.”
Brown claims Defoe has been able to extend his career not only due to his insatiable appetite for goals but also his playing style.
“You think: ‘Well he’s not a runner,’ and he never was,” Brown added to Football Insider. “He was never bombing around, he’d literally just float around, touch, volley, goal.
“He loves scoring goals. His legs obviously won’t be there now to what they were.
“But even if the games are tight for them, you think who’s going to come around in that box, he’ll just sniff one out and he still gets the goals, it’s what he does.”
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