The Senegalese international forward, 22, found a home at Ibrox in the first half of this season, netting 15 goals before a devastating injury ruled him out of AFCON.
Having just worked his way back into the Senegal reckoning, it was certainly a blow for club and country.
But having just returned to the Rangers first-team squad, earning minutes late on in the 3-1 win over Hibs, Abdallah Sima wasn’t included on a list of players Roberto di Zerbi expects back next season.
That’s even if the Brighton manager has admitted that as things stand, there have been no talks with chairman Tony Bloom over this summer’s window.
In quotes carried by the Athletic, Roberto di Zerbi was talking about the (lack of) influence on the team from Barcelona loanee Ansu Fati.
One of the world game’s brightest young talents, the 21-year-old Spain winger has struggled in the Premier League and finds himself out of the side.
With Brighton paying 80% of the winger’s extortionate £160k per week wages, it’s amounted to a £7m transfer which hasn’t paid off.
Coincidentally, that’s about as much – although it’s closer to £6m – that Brighton paid to sign Abdallah Sima from Slavia Prague in 2021.
And in some interesting comments from Di Zerbi, the Italian fails to mention Abdallah Sima when he refers to players who will be coming back into the Brighton team next season.
“I have not spoken with Tony (Bloom) yet and I don’t know about next season,” De Zerbi said.
“Deniz Undav will come back (from a season-long loan at Stuttgart) and I hope (Kaoru) Mitoma will be good (the Japan winger was ruled out in February for the rest of the season by a back injury).
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