THE focus at Rangers just now as a January transfer window which will have huge implications for the future success of the Ibrox club approaches is firmly on the players who will be coming in.

Those who have arrived in the past and have not, for whatever reason, yet made a significant contribution have not, though, been forgotten about. Far from it.

Graeme Murty may well be primarily concerned with how the first team fares now that he has been confirmed as manager until the end of the season.

But he is still taking a keen interest in the progress of those who are unable, for the time being at least, to feature and that very much includes Jordan Rossiter.

Rossiter has, due to a lower back problem which has caused recurring calf and hamstring issues, hardly featured since his much-publicised move from Liverpool last year. He has made just 10 appearances in the last 19 months.

Yet, Murty has made sure the 20-year-old midfielder who he, like so many others, believes has a huge future in the game, has the support he needs to get him through his ordeal and revealed that no timescale has been put on his comeback.

“He is going through a hard time physically and psychologically,” he said. “But he’s getting fantastic support. Our medical staff are taking really, really good care of him.

“What we want to do it take away any performance anxiety or any other stresses that he has so that he keeps his focus on getting his body right and making sure he can maximise his potential.

“Part of the way to do that is to take away time limits, take away restrictions on it and just make sure that holistically you look at everything in his life and around him that can put him in a positive place.

“We are not sure where we are time wise. We were looking at Jordan progressing. He’s not progressing as fast as we would like or, I’m sure, he would like.”

Murty, the former Reading and Scotland, appreciates what he is going through from personal experience. “Having been injured for 18 months myself, the monotony of it, the grind of it and the fact that it never changes can really wear you down,” he said.

“So we need to make sure we give him a variety of different stimulus so that we can actually physically and psychologically take care of him as well as possible.”

The 43-year-old is optimistic their effort will be worthwhile. “I am hopeful for him, hopeful that we can get him right,” he said. “I’m hopeful we can get him fit because if we do then we’ve got a really, really good asset that deals with the football really well.

“He passes the ball brilliantly and has a fantastic pedigree. When you see him close, the sound he makes when passing the ball, just from a simple sidefoot is different. There’s just a resonance to it that’s great.

“Honestly. It’s similar to if you see someone who hits a golf shot it makes that wonderful sound when the pros hit it. It sounds totally different when we clang it down the fairway, slap it a wee bit.”