Partick Thistle have confirmed that Tony Weston has returned to Rangers with immediate effect.
The 19-year-old forward arrived on loan from the Ibrox outfit in July, making his debut a day after signing against Kilmarnock in the Premier Sports Cup.
Weston has featured 18 times in Thistle colours with 17 of those coming off the bench. He scored one goal during his time at the club, the third in a 3-0 win over Kelty Hearts at Firhill in the Scottish Cup.
Thistle manager Ian McCall said: “Tony is a very talented young player and I’m disappointed to see him leave. Admittedly, he probably hasn’t had as many opportunities as he’s deserved this season and for a player at his age, it’s important to be playing.
“We left it up to him because we’d have been happy to keep a hold of him but he’s decided to leave and look for regular football elsewhere. As well as being a good player, he’s a great lad who is well-liked here at Firhill and we all wish him the best going forward.”
Meanwhile, Michael Beale has introduced an “intensity” to training that stands Rangers in good stead for the future, according to Adam Devine.
The Gers boss has won four and drawn one of his five games since taking over from Giovanni van Bronckhorst in November, albeit Celtic still lead the cinch Premiership title race by nine points following the 2-2 draw at Ibrox on Monday.
Academy graduate Devine, 19, has recently emerged as back-up to right-back James Tavernier and has noticed the added competition at the Rangers Training Centre under Beale, who was previously assistant coach to Steven Gerrard at Ibrox.
“He is very demanding in training,” said Devine, speaking at Hampden Park to promote the new 2022-23 SPFL Match Attax collection.
“It is competitive every day in training. You need to win and that sets you up for the games on the Saturday.
“Everybody is driving standards. Everybody wants to be the best in training.
“It is setting a real mood around the group, every day we go into training there has to be a real intensity to the training session.
“It is only beneficial being so competitive in training. In a club like Rangers you need to win every week and at the end of the day to succeed is to win trophies and that’s what we hope to do.
“In the last five games we have looked a threat, scored a lot of goals. There is a lot of room for improvement but I think we are heading in the right direction.”
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