Stevie insists Ovie’s made wrong move

to Rangers in the future, based on their experiences north of the border thus far.

“I don’t think there will be a problem, no,” he said. “That’s because we’ve just sent one player back who’s played 25 times, 11 times in Europe, who wore the No 10 for Glasgow Rangers in front of 51,000 people.

“We’ve got another Liverpool player here [Ryan Kent] who has played probably around 20 times, who has reignited his career after two bad loans. He’s doing unbelievably well and I want him fit as soon as possible. He’s having the time of his life.

“Kids are different, characters are different. I have to accept that.”

Meanwhile, Gerrard says that Rangers moving top of the table means nothing, and he is more concerned with his side developing a killer instinct.

Gerrard was frustrated that his team had failed to build on Daniel Candeias’s early opener in their 1-0 win over Hamilton yesterday. He is more concerned by the blunt edge to the Rangers attack than the current standings.

“I’m not really interested – with all due respect – in being top of the league right now,” Gerrard said. “We were top of the league before, then went and lost and drew our next two games.

“So, what’s more important to me now is what we can learn from the performance. It’s blatantly obvious we have to learn to kill teams off.

“I’m happy with the win and the clean sheet but we’ve got a lot to learn in terms of the performance.

“We put 22 corners in today and over 30 crosses. We created enough opportunities and got into some really exciting areas. But we had zero killer instinct. That’s a concern.

“It was good to have Candeias back today, he gave us a lot of energy. Am I happy we’ll have Alfredo back on Wednesday? Yes.”