Ibrox side Glasgow Rangers have a brilliant player in Josh Windass, but his manager wants him to improve.
Josh Windass has scored 15 goals in all competitions for Rangers this season but manager Graeme Murty suggests he still isn’t completely happy with him.
The 24-year-old has been a revelation since Murty took over from Pedro Caixinha in October, with 14 of his 15-goal haul coming under the 43-year-old.
The English playmaker scored a hat-trick in Sunday’s 5-3 win at Hamilton to make it nine goals in his last five games, but the former Reading defender-turned-manager believes that he could still be better.
“These are the things which we have to sit down and educate him as to what might not be appropriate,” he told Rangers TV. “In these last two stages of the game, he needs to be diligent and shift the ball quickly and he needs to do a job for the team.
“And then be more expressive when an opportunity becomes available and a space opens up so that we can do it collectively. I don’t want to take away his expressive nature at all.
“What I want to do is just give him a little bit of more knowledge so that when he deploys his attributes, it has more a destructive impact on the opposition.”
Despite his goal return, plenty of Rangers fans aren’t believing the hype over the former Accrington star and perhaps one of the reasons for that is linked to what Murty is saying.
It sounds like the Gers boss is criticising him over a lack of defensive work when he claims that he needs to “do a job for the team” and that’s similar to what Caixinha suggested earlier in the season, when Windass was on the wing.
But if he keeps scoring goals then surely that’s all that matters.
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