Rangers striker Cyriel Dessers wants ‘more recognition’ and Ibrox Noise completely agrees with him.

Only the modern Rangers fan could be genuinely unhappy with a striker who has scored more in any single season for Rangers than any striker since Kris Boyd, for which you have to go back 14 years to find.

Even his domestic Premiership record was impressive – he nailed 16 for the season, 4th behind Tavernier (pens), Shankland and O’Riley.

Overall tally? 22 in 54 and 9 assists. That’s 31.

He had a great season last campaign, and his last-minute equaliser v Kyiv was the kind of positioning and awareness Super would be proud of.

It’s no wonder Dessers wants more love.

Is he the type of striker to effortlessly take it on his chest and bang it into the roof of the net from 25 yards?

No, but not even the initially-electric Antonio Colak was like that. Boyd wasn’t and frankly no one since Michael Mols pre-injury has been.

Rangers fans have probably got, today, the most effective striker we’ve had since Boyd, and this is a lad who has done it against Celtic when it mattered (even if we didn’t win the match in question) and who has done it in the Champions League at qualification level.

And at that level?

5 goals and assists in 7 appearances. If anyone is going to claim that’s not good enough they have no sense of what is.

We are not gigantic fans of Dessers (despite how this piece sounds) – we know he has his faults. He’s not slick in possession, he’s not clinical with his finishing, and he comes across now and then as cumbersome.

But he just keeps on doing it, and doing it at the levels Rangers need him to.

Dessers has Ibrox Noise’s backing – if Rangers fans had been told a 32 in 56 striker was arriving, not a single one would have complained about the fee.

But he just hasn’t gained the love for whatever reason.

Dessers is happy at Rangers, and he scores and assists more than any striker in the Old Firm bar none.

He definitely deserves a bit more credit for this.