Leon King insists he could be playing in the current Rangers team - and has vowed to win a return to Ibrox.
The boyhood fan is leaving the club he joined as a five-year-old boy in pursuit of regular first-team football, having proved himself during a loan at Ayr United.
King feels he is good enough to be playing regularly and starring for Rangers but also accepts the club's decision to let him go.
However, he is determined to prove himself elsewhere and then return to the club he supports later in his career.
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“Does it feel like I’ve been written off at Rangers too soon or too easily? On the outside, people probably have done that,"he told the Daily Record.
"But hopefully in the future, I’ll get back to Rangers because it’s the club I support. This is more of a see you later than a goodbye in my eyes.
“I feel I could go into the Rangers squad just now and play. I fully back myself, 100 percent. I think I could be a starter most weeks. They’ve got some good players but I’d back myself now more than I ever have.
“The club are going a different way and I can’t grumble. That’s their decision and I’ll go elsewhere to play.
“But ultimately, I feel I could be playing in that team and bringing something to Rangers. I’m not arrogant as a player or as a person - I’m the least big-time guy you’ll meet."
King's biggest run in the Rangers team came during the miserable Champions League campaign under Giovanni Bronckhorst when injuries meant the 18-year-old featured prominently at centre half.
They finished as statisically the worst UCL team ever but he insists it didn't knock his confidence.
King said: “There’s maybe a perception that I was scarred by those defeats in Europe (Rangers lost 22 goals in six games) but that’s not true.
“Honestly, those matches didn’t hinder me in any shape or form. I thrived on it. People can say it damaged me but far from it. It has actually built me into a stronger person, on and off the pitch.
“There was criticism and scrutiny on me at a young age but when you play for a club like Rangers, you’re going to get that.
“It’s about how you take it. I wouldn’t say it scarred me in any way. If anything, I’m better for it. And if I went back, I wouldn’t change it."
