Ladies and Gentlemen, I've had the dubious honour of investigating the illustrious career of one Max Aarons, born in the new millennium and now knocking about at the tender age of 25. The lad is an English defender who primarily operates as a right back. Currently, he's gallivanting around up in Scotland for Rangers, donned in the number 3 jersey. A modest 5ft 10in (1.78m) tall and tipping the scales at 10st 12lb (69kg), need I say more?
The worth of a footballer has been reduced to numbers nowadays. Not talking about goals and assists, but rather market values. For Aarons, it's a paltry £4.5m (if you'd believe Transfermarkt, the cyber oracle of player's worth).
In 2016, our lad joined Norwich City in the Championship as a labouring trainee. As for his achievements there? Bugger all, for the most part, at least in a goalscoring sense. A whole two goals in the 2018 - 2019 season and a returning performance in the 2020 - 2021 season. A single goal followed in the 2022 - 2023 season. They must've been popping champagne bottles at Carrow Road.
Then in 2023, our journeyman moved up the ladder to the Premier League. That is if you can call Bournemouth's Dean Court a ladder and not a snake. He had a less than sterling time, breaking 20 appearances only once, in that first 2023 - 2024 season. It went rapidly downhill from there.
Perhaps thinking the grass would be greener on the continent, Aarons trotted over to Valencia in LaLiga on a loan. That Spanish venture ended up with all of four league starts. Obviously, famed British grit doesn't translate particularly well to the sun-soaked landscapes of Spain.
Returning to Bournemouth in 2025 like a chastened prodigal son, that boat clearly hadn't sailed. It was time for another stint in the Premier League. In the end, it was a weak echo of his previous tenure, and the lad found himself jetting off to Rangers on loan.
Now, in the 2025 - 2026 season, Aarons is giving it a bash in the Scottish Premiership with six appearances and one goal; making him already somewhat of a luminary in Glasgow's football scene, it seems. Not forgetting his illustrious contribution to Rangers' European campaigns. A single start in the League Cup, five in the Champions League Qualifiers, and a fleeting substitute appearance in the Europa League. Stellar stuff indeed.
