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Liverpool’s Jurgen Klopp hails Rangers’ Ryan Kent

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Ibrox side Glasgow Rangers have a quality player in Ryan Kent.

15th September 2018, Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow, Scotland; Ladbrokes Premiership football, Rangers versus Dundee; Ryan Kent of Rangers scores for 2-0

Ryan Kent was one of Rangers’ best signings of last summer.

The 22-year-old joined Steven Gerrard’s side on a season-long loan from Liverpool [BBC Sport] and quickly established himself as a key player for the Reds icon.

Kent, valued at £2 million [The Record], has three Premiership goals for Rangers this season.

He is finally enjoying his football again after a series of disappointing temporary moves away from Merseyside, including a loan to Freiburg that the German club terminated 12 months ago.

But things are back on track at the moment, and Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has described him as a ‘fantastic football player’.

He told Liverpool’s official website: “Ryan was sitting here in my office and asked me, ‘Let me go to Freiburg please, let me go to Freiburg please’.

“I know German football, I know the manager of Freiburg and I knew it is not Disneyland there! They train a lot, it is a very special club that I like a lot. He went there and it didn’t work out for him.

“Now he is at Glasgow Rangers and that works really well because Ryan is a fantastic football player and still very young.”

It’ll be interesting to see if Gerrard can keep Kent at Ibrox for the long term.

After all, the 38-year-old manager, who has Eros Grezda, Glenn Middleton and Jamie Murphy as left-wing options, isn’t short of similar players, but time will tell whether he fancies a permanent move for Kent.

Does the Rangers loanee have a future at Anfield? Probably not when you consider the fact that Sadio Mane and Xherdan Shaqiri play in his position.

Ryan Kent of Rangers FC during the UEFA Europa League Group G match between Villarreal CF and Rangers FC at La Ceramica Stadium on September 20, 2018 in Vila-real, Spain.