The 28-year-old is in desperate need of aid up top as his Rangers career continues to stutter.
Mark Lawrenson has told the Daily Record that Rangers need to partner Joe Garner with veteran striker Kenny Miller if they are to get the best out of the former Preston man.
The 28-year-old has failed to live up to expectations at Ibrox so far, netting only three league goals in 19 games and none in his last eleven.
Meanwhile, 37-year-old Miller remains Rangers most consistent attacking threat, top scoring this season with six goals while his wily movement and combination play remains as impressive and intelligent as ever.
However, with Warburton often preferring a one-striker system and a short passing game, there is a growing acceptance that Rangers’ current style does not play to Garner’s strengths, a factor the physical, hard-working striker himself admitted earlier in the season.
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And Lawrenson believes the former Brentford boss has to change up his tactics if he is to see any return on Rangers’ £1.8 million investment (Daily Mail).
“At Preston, when [Garner] played alongside [Jermaine] Beckford, he made and scored an awful lot of goals in League One,” Lawrenson told the Daily Record.
“If you are a Kenny Miller who we all know scores goals for fun you would absolutely love playing as a two with Joe. Joe is definitely better in a pairing, no doubt about it.
“To get the best of a player like him you have a Beckford at Preston or a Miller at Rangers who can pick up the bits and pieces around him.”
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Garner netted a career best 25 times in the 2014/15 season alongside experienced front man Beckford.
However, whether Warburton, who has stubbornly stuck to his principles so far, is willing to change could make or break Garner’s Rangers career.
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