Rangers transfer chief Ross Wilson was a busy man throughout January as he completed a number of deals at Ibrox throughout the transfer window.

He brought a plethora of players in to bolster Gio van Bronckhorst’s squad, including Amad Diallo, Aaron Ramsey, James Sands and Mateusz Zukowksi.

The sporting director also managed to negotiate a club-record sale as Nathan Patterson left to join Premier League side Everton for an undisclosed fee.

That particular record had been held by fellow right-back Alan Hutton – who joined Tottenham for a reported fee of £9m in 2008.

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The Gers ended up playing a blinder with Hutton as his career after leaving Glasgow suggests that they did incredibly well to receive such a significant fee for his services.

He burst up through the academy set-up and played 99 times for the first team, scoring two goals and providing nine assists.

This led to Spurs picking him up in 2008. However, it was a strange move in the sense that the player was not over the moon to be making such a major transfer away from Ibrox. Speaking last year, Hutton explained:

“I turned down Tottenham multiple times, I didn’t want to go, I told the manager I didn’t want to go and I didn’t.“At the end of the day, if Rangers agree on a fee, they’ve agreed on a fee and they’re willing to let you go so it’s kind of out of your hands a little bit. I remember it like it was yesterday. I turned them down multiple times, I was Rangers through and through and I never wanted to leave but when Rangers come and say: ‘Look, we’ve accepted this bid,’ it is what it is.”He went on to play 66 times for Spurs in all competitions during a three-year spell at White Hart Lane, spending some of that time on loan at Sunderland.They eventually sold him to Aston Villa in 2011 and he endured a difficult debut campaign for the Villans which led to him being loaned out to the Championship in England in 2012. That loan ended in January 2012 and he spent the second half of the campaign with RCD Mallorca in Spain.By the time he returned to Villa in the summer of 2013, Transfermarkt valued him at a measly £1.8m. This meant that his value had plummeted £7.2m within five years of his £9m move to Tottenham from Rangers, despite him being 28 and in what should have been the prime years of his career.Therefore, the Gers played a blinder with Hutton as they managed to cash in on him at the peak of his value before he failed to make the most of his potential.Who knows what could have happened had he stayed with the Gers for another year or two, but we can only work with the evidence of what did happen and it shows that Rangers came out on top with this particular transfer.AND in other news, Left for £0: Allen had Rangers howler on “outstanding” 6ft4 gem whose value rose 700%…