The Rangers manager, Steven Gerrard, has already called up several Ibrox youngsters this season.
Steven Gerrard sent five first-team players to Rangers’ reserves on Wednesday afternoon.
But while one of those, Glenn Middleton, deserves a mention for his two goals in a 5-0 win for the Gers against Morton, it is a 17-year-old without any senior experience who stole the show.
With Andrew Dallas loaned out in January – incidentally, to Morton – the spotlight is now firmly fixed on Josh McPake, another young Rangers striker.
After two goals against Queens Park at the weekend, McPake followed up with a hat-trick at Rangers’ training facility.
And the calls for him to follow Middleton, Stephen Kelly, Serge Atakayi and Jordan Houston into Gerrard’s first-team plans are growing as a result.
This is what’s been said about McPake on Twitter…
McPake still has another 15 months left on his contract at Rangers, according to Transfermarkt.
The Coatbridge native, a Scotland Under-17 international, can also play as a winger.
Is McPake the next Rangers youngster Steven Gerrard should be looking at?
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