He wrote in Daily Record: “Steven Gerrard will want to see how the Romanian kid handles going to places like Perth on Sunday, where he’s going to have to roll his sleeves up and dig deep. That’s where we’ll see what he’s made of. It’s not going to be pretty. You know what the weather’s like – it’s going to be wet and windy. This is where you’ve got to be prepared to do the horrible side of the game. There’s no doubt the guy is technically superb. I still don’t know his strongest foot. That tells you everything. He scored a brilliant goal with his left foot and then took the free-kick with his right foot. The last guy I saw doing that was Lubo Moravcik at Celtic. So the ability is there but he has to show it at McDiarmid Park, at Fir Park, at Tynecastle, at Pittodrie. That’s what it really means being a Rangers player. Can you change Can you do the dirty side when you need to”.

It will be interesting to see how he performs in the coming weeks. The midfielder will be hoping to build on his good start at his new club and show that he has what it takes to succeed at this level.