Glasgow Rangers striker Kenny Miller has not played for the Ibrox outfit for the past two matches under manager Pedro Caixinha.
Miller has not featured in Rangers’ last two Scottish Premiership matches against Hamilton Academical and St Johnstone.
The performances of the Gers against Hamilton and St Johnstone were very encouraging, and the team did not seem to miss Miller.
The 37-year-old striker is one of the most experienced footballer in Pedro Caixinha’s side and is currently in his third spell at Ibrox.
Rangers will return to action this afternoon when they take on Motherwell at Hampden Park in Glasgow in the semi-finals of the Scottish League Cup.
Central defender Alves, 35, has said that former Celtic, Derby County and Wolverhampton Wanderers striker Miller has been training as normal.
“He has trained as normal,” Alves told The Scottish Sun about Miller. “He is doing his job just like always. He is training very well and is very motivated all the time. Nothing has changed from before.”
According to The Scottish Sun, Miller has been left out of the Rangers squad to face Motherwell in the Scottish League Cup semi-final tie this afternoon.
Meanwhile, former Rangers star Gordon Smith has given his take on Miller’s situation.
The Scottish Sun has claimed that the striker and manager Caixinha have fallen out, and that his agent Dave Baldwin has hit out at the Portuguese boss twice.
Smith had Miller as his client when he was an agent, and he has written in The Sunday Post about the striker and his relationship with Baldwin: “They have been together for some 14 years. That doesn’t happen without a very close understanding being in place between the pair.
“So the depth of feeling in the quotes about Kenny being ‘hung out to dry’ against a backdrop of talk about a dressing room leak, will be – at the very least – shared by the player.”
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