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Graeme Young

Steven Gerrard provides Rangers AGM transfer clarity as he fires defiant January message

Upfront Steven Gerrard admits Rangers will have to part with their big name players eventually but it won't be during the January transfer window.

The club's AGM was used as a platform to address their side's player trading model strategy as managing director Stewart Robertson stressed the importance of maximising income.

The likes of Alfredo Morelos, Ryan Kent and Borna Barisic have attracted serious interest from elsewhere over the past 12 months.

Skipper James Tavernier's standout displays won't have gone unnoticed south of the border and Connor Goldson is entering the final 18 months of his current Rangers deal.

But Gerrard - acutely aware that some of his big names will leave at some point - has promised Ibrox supporters their biggest names will remain until at least the end of the season.

He said: "None of our big players will be going anywhere in January. I’m well aware of the club’s situation and what we need to do moving forward.

"Of course I totally understand that at some point we will have to trade someone. I’m not naive enough to think that we won’t have to do that.

"But it’s extremely important that we keep our best players certainly in the next window and that they are here for the duration of the season. I think the board are aware of that and want that as well.

"So we are certainly on the same page. Moving forward, we are at a club where we need to keep active in terms of recruitment and bringing people in.

"But that also means that, at the right time, the right player might have to move in a different direction. We are well aware of that."

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