Nicolas Raskin's Future at Rangers: Ambitions and Contract Talks

Nicolas Raskin is content at Rangers. That much is clear. Everything else about his future is wide open.

The 25-year-old midfielder has played his way back into the heart of the side, starting the last seven games and capping that run with his first goal of the season in the 2-2 draw at Dundee. For a player who spent part of the summer on the fringes amid transfer noise, that strike felt like more than a simple equaliser. It looked like a reset.

Raskin had been linked with a move away during the last window and, as speculation grew, he found himself left out of some matchday squads. For an ambitious international, that cut deepest.

“The hardest was not being able to play. Watching the boys playing, this is probably the hardest bit I've been through during the window,” he admitted, laying bare the frustration behind the calm exterior.

Since arriving at Ibrox in January 2023, Raskin has racked up more than 150 club appearances and earned 22 senior caps for Belgium. Rangers have given him a platform and he knows it.

“This club helped me join the Belgian national team, which is a big, big thing,” he said. “I've never been pushing for something because I'm really happy here. It's a big club.”

That is the tension at the heart of his situation. He wants more. He also wants to stay present.

“When you're an ambitious player, you want to keep going higher and higher and higher,” he explained. “I thought there was a point where maybe I could try and go and get for a new challenge after the World Cup.”

The door to that challenge never quite opened. Instead, a new manager arrived, and with him, a fresh start. Raskin speaks warmly about that relationship.

“I'm really calm with that. I don't need to push anything. The manager's been amazing with me since he arrived. We've got loads of time before January. We try to make the best of it, try to win as many games as we can and I don't know what's going to happen.”

January now looms as the next flashpoint. So does his contract, which runs until the end of next season. On that front, Raskin is deliberately stepping back.

Asked about the prospect of extending his deal, he replied: “I don't know it's not up to me. It's up to the club.”

For now, the equation is simple. Rangers have a midfielder in form, motivated and fully engaged, even as the next window creeps closer. The club must soon decide whether this is the moment to lock him in for the long term — or risk watching one of their key players test just how high “higher and higher and higher” can really be.