Macleod helping next generation at Ibrox

Former Rangers starlet Lewis Macleod is hoping to help the current crop of Ibrox youngsters make it big.

McLeod burst on to the scene as a talented teenager in 2012, featuring prominently as the Glasgow giants scaled back up the the leagues.

He would eventually be sold to Brentford, before a persistent knee injury eventually led to his retirement in 2021.

However, now back at Rangers as an academy coach, he said: "There's a number of players in the academy just now you could look at and be hopeful they can go on and have careers at Rangers, and in professional football in general.

"It's up to us as coaches and staff to give them the best platform we can, to keep them moving in the right direction.

"Whether that's loans or whatever it may be, we will get them that experience they need to develop."

Macleod, who will feature for Rangers at next weekend's Tennent's Sixes tournament, added: "Ian Durrant, who is part of the Tennent's Sixes, was a massive help for me.

"Not just because I looked up to him growing up as a Rangers fan, we played in the same position.

"So he was always helpful in terms of information, whether it be in football or outside of football. Just looking after yourself."