Our subject, Lyall Cameron, was born in Scotland on the 10th of October 2002, placing him at the youthful age of 22. As if to bother us with his youthful agility and verve, Cameron is a midfielder - specifically, he flaunts his talents in the central attacking midfielder position for Rangers. Despite being vertically challenged at a mere 5ft 10in (or 1.8m, for those of us embracing metric heights) and weighing an understated 11st 9lb (74kg, for the late adopters of metric units), his jersey carries the pride of the number 16.
Most would nutmeg their granny for a footballer’s wages and these illusions of grandeur aren’t helped when we discover Cameron’s current market value sits around a cool £1.3m or so, according to the value stick wielded by Transfermarkt. Contract obligations towards Rangers have him chained down till May 31, 2025.
Cameron's knee-high to tall goalpost days were impressively spent at Dundee, a Premiership club in Scotland, where his fresh-faced debut in the 2022-2023 season allowed him 26 first team appearances and a not-so-shabby tally of eight goals. His league form dipped a wee bit in the 2023-2024 season, chalking up five goals in 32 matches, but he managed to bounce back impressively with a mid-crisis peak of nine goals in 33 matches in the following 2024-2025 season.
Then came the loan stints, akin to a shopaholic swapping credit cards. In July 2020, Cameron switched leagues from Peterhead in League One to the grander Premiership with Dundee - for an undisclosed fee, keeping us all in the dark (surprise, surprise). Similar goal patterns followed, eerily reminiscent of his previous seasons. At the end of each loan stint, like a boomerang obliged to return to its launcher, Cameron meandered back to Dundee.
2022 saw Cameron on loan, this time to Montrose in League One, only to return (naturally) to Dundee upon completion of his loan. One begins to suspect Cameron was suffering from separation anxiety from his beloved Dundee.
In a shocking turn of events in the summer of 2025, Cameron turned his back on Dundee, opting for a transfer to Rangers, keeping the fee to himself (we could bet a Greggs pastry it wasn't a meagre sum). The move has so far resulted in a single match appearance. But in the unpredictable world of football, we'll be holding onto our flat caps for what comes next.
