Rangers boss Steven Gerrard has fired a warning at youth players who feel there isn't a pathway to the first team at Ibrox.
Rangers have a crop of highly-rated youngsters including the likes of Nathan Patterson, Dapo Mebude, Josh McPake, James Maxwell and Kai Kennedy.
McPake is the only one to play a competitive game this season and 37-year-old Allan McGregor is the only academy graduate to be a regular in the first team.
That was over 20 years ago he came through the system but Gerrard insists there's nothing stopping reserves making a breakthrough as he aimed a thinly-veiled jibe at agents who are in the ear of his youngsters.
He admits it can be a bit more difficult to get them into the side because of their battle with Celtic but insists he wants to give them a chance.
When asked, he said: "It makes a bit tougher of course it does. It’s simple, my message to the academy players, if they’re good enough and they’re good enough consistently when they come over and they train with us and when they get an opportunity.
"If they show that they’re better than the people who are in their place and have the shirt, we’ll look at it and analyse it very seriously.
"I’m someone who is from an academy, I want to give them an opportunity and a taste for it.
"I’m not someone who buys into all this ‘oh my pathway is blocked’ or ‘my agent has seven other teams waiting for me here there and everywhere’.
"I’m not interested in it all.
"If you want to play for Rangers and you’re good enough you’ll get there."
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