Cyriel Dessers looks like he could be on his way out of Rangers after slipping down the pecking order.
The Nigerian remained the first choice striker at Gers throughout last season despite taking a fair amount of stick from supporters and pundits alike.
That stayed the same at the beginning of this season as he continued to score goals but also miss chances at a similar rate.
Danilo had his struggles with injury and was working his way back so remained on the bench, while summer signing Hamza Igamane was raw and needed drip-fed in.
But now it looks like the Brazilian and Moroccan are both preferred to Dessers.
Dessers could even leave Rangers in January with reports of serious interest from France, with Saint-Ettiene considering a winter window swoop.
They are struggling in Ligue 1 and see the 30-year-old as someone who could bolster them.
And Michael Stewart has predicted Gers will look to sell him in January with the way things have been going recently and the furore around him not taking a penalty in the Premier Sports Cup final shootout.
Dessers was accused of having ‘no bottle’ by another pundit in Tam McManus.
But it has since emerged the Ibrox number nine DID want to take a penalty, with Stewart and Alan Hutton both sharing what they’d heard.
Despite the expectation he could move on, one former Rangers man insists he’d rather have Dessers than Danilo.
McCormack ‘not having’ Rangers’ Danilo
Ross McCormack is not a fan of Danilo and would rather have Dessers in his team.
The former Rangers forward thinks the Nigerian takes too much stick and, while admitting he is “not amazing”, thinks he brings more to a team than his club mate.
Speaking on Open Goal, he said: “I’m happy to say something right now. See if I get the choice of Dessers or Danilo? I take Dessers every time.
“I’m not having Danilo.”
Asked if he doesn’t think Dessers being out the team is a factor in Rangers’ upturn in form, he insisted: “No. I don’t think he’s amazing. I don’t think he’s by any stretch of the imagination amazing.
“But if you offered me Dessers or Danilo, I take Dessers all day long.
“I think he’s strong, tenacious. Yeah, he’ll miss the odd chance but…
“Danilo just looks injured to me, all the time. Every time he plays he looks injured.
“I’d take Igamane over Dessers, for sure. But not Danilo.”
What Michael Stewart said about Dessers’ future
Speaking after the penalty row, Stewart said: “It’s a valid talking point because he’s Rangers’ number nine. You’d expect that he’s going to be standing up and taking a penalty.
“But I think it just goes to highlight the whole Dessers story at Rangers, in that guaranteed if he steps up to take it the Rangers supporters have got their heart in their mouth. They’re thinking ‘oh no’ – they would be.
“Of course you do (expect Dessers to take).
“But to a certain extent, the players have got to feel it themselves and if Dessers is not feeling it, you cannot force him into taking a penalty.
“Again, the whole thing highlights what is clearly a deficiency. He has clearly dropped down the pecking order now anyway, but you cannot have your main number nine not able to step up and take one of the first five penalties in a massive game like that.
“[Hamza] Igamane has now made himself what you’d regard as the main striker at Rangers, Danilo is coming back and he’s fit, scores a great goal by equalising in that last minute of the game.
“You’d imagine that they’ll be looking at trying to offload Dessers, I’d think. I think it’s plain and simple and they’d be looking to get somebody else in the door.”
