RYAN JACK reckons Steven Gerrard and Gary McAllister can bring out the best in him and ensure he can consign a nightmare first season at Ibrox to the history books.
The midfielder produced a series of impressive performances in the opening months of the campaign following his move from Aberdeen last summer.
But his progress was brought to a halt when he suffered a serious knee injury in the win over Motherwell in December.
Jack then had to watch on from the stands as Graeme Murty’s side suffered a Hampden humiliation in the Scottish Cup semi-final and were beaten 5-0 at Parkhead on the day Celtic clinched seven-in-a-row.
Now the 26-year-old is eager to put his injury troubles behind him after joining up with the Light Blues squad at their pre-season training base in Spain this week.
Jack told RangersTV: “It’s been a long road, a long recovery, and obviously I had a bad knee injury but it’s part of being a footballer and it’s how you react and having good people around you to get you through it.
“All the rehab and training I’ve done is pretty much for now and being fit for pre-season. My knee is fine now and all that work and recovery is for getting back fit for now.
“It’s exciting times. As soon as the appointment was announced you’re delighted and looking forward to it and straight away I was thinking I can pick their brains and learn.
“It’s two players who have played at the highest level in football so any tips you can get can only improve your game.
“I’m a midfielder and they are massive names in football who enjoyed great careers and we can learn off their knowledge.
“I need to try and put in as much work as I can and hit the ground running and hopefully that will stand me in good stead for when the friendlies and Europa League games come up.”
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here