Hibs boss Jack Ross insists Ryan Porteous is in no rush to leave Hibs despite growing interest from the English Championship.
Porteous was close to leaving the club in January with Millwall having bids rejected for the centre back, and now QPR want to sign him.
Former Rangers boss Mark Warburton is a big fan of him but Ross believes there's no urgency from Porteous to quit his boyhood heroes and head down south.
He reckons the centre back has matured as a player and shown great leadership, but has never hinted that he wants to move on from Easter Road any time soon.
Ross said: “I do think he’s probably in the best place he has ever been here.
“He’s had a really, really good season. He’s been really consistent, he’s matured again, he’s grown, his leadership qualities are brilliant, and he’s a good, good player.
“I think because of his association with this club and his affection for it I don’t ever think he is in a rush to leave but he knows there will come a time when it may be right for him in terms of how he wants to progress his career.
“But never for one second in the conversations I have had with him, formally or informally, have I ever got the sense that he is in any desperate rush to leave Hibs.
“He loves the club, it means a lot to him and this period coming up means a lot to him.
“I’m proud of how he has progressed this season and I’m proud of how, since I came to the club and the conversations I have had with him and the things we’ve looked at improving, he’s bought into that.
“We had poke and prod him along and cajole him but ultimately it’s up to him and he has very much grabbed that, he has made a lot of strides forward.”
