Earlier in the season, there was a distinct lack of creativity in the Rangers squad due to an unprecedented injury list that is only just starting to recover.
That situation has eased in recent weeks for Michael Beale and, after adding Todd Cantwell and the return to fitness of Ianis Hagi, now has a selection of playmakers who he can rely on.
What this has done though is push Alex Lowry further down the pecking order, ironically, if he had been fit in the opening months of 2022/23, he probably would have been given a run of games under the previous management team, just as they did with Leon King.
The Gers gaffer has been pressed on Lowry’s situation and has thrown down the gauntlet to the teenager, either he fights to get back into the first-team or he goes out on loan and shows everyone what he can do – this is a player that Beale hailed as “the future of Rangers” shortly after arriving remember.
The Athletic claimed that both Lowry and King are the subject of interest with loan bids being rejected so far, however, it is also being reported by Football Transfers that clubs in the Premiership and League 1 in England are eyeing a move for our mercurial playmaker.
I felt last season that Lowry did enough to suggest that he should get more minutes this season and that extending Scott Arfield’s contract would block that, to an extent I was right but nobody could have foreseen the youngster being injured in the way that he was just as he was returning to form and fitness.
Normally, I’m not keen on players heading out on loan, however, I think it would do Lowry good. Not to get him game time, but to remind him of what he has at Rangers and to stop his mind, and attention, from wandering elsewhere.
Beale is right, Lowry is the future of Rangers, if he wants to be.