Jamie Murphy hasn’t played for Ibrox side Glasgow Rangers since August due to injury.
Steven Gerrard has told Football Scotland that Jamie Murphy won’t make his long-awaited return for Rangers this season.
Murphy hasn’t kicked a ball for Rangers since August after missing virtually the entire season with cruciate ligament damage.
The 29-year-old sustained the injury on Kilmarnock’s artificial surface and with the Gers rounding off their season at Rugby Park on May 19, Gerrard says there’s no sense in the Scot returning to the scene of the crime basically.
He told Football Scotland: “Jamie has a chance of training with the squad before the end of the season.
“But with the last game being on astroturf, I don’t think it makes sense to push Jamie in one game before the end of the season.
“If that game was on grass, there would probably have been a better chance.”
Murphy hasn’t had much opportunity to show Gerrard what he can do, but he’ll be determined to make up for lost time next season.
Problem is, he’ll have to fight very, very hard to be a first-team regular.
With Jordan Jones incoming and Glenn Middleton improving, Gerrard will have a lot of very tidy left-wing options next term, but Murphy is a class act, as he proved the second half of last season, and he’ll feel confident in keeping those two at bay.
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