Rangers head coach Philippe Clement has opened up on the rumors linking Cyriel Dessers with a move away from the club.

According to the manager, Dessers' future at Rangers will be decided in the coming two weeks.

Dessers, who bagged a hat-trick in Rangers' 5-0 mauling of Fraserburgh on Sunday, January 19, has fallen down the attacking pecking order behind Moroccan international Hamza Igamane.

It was the first start for the Dutch-born Nigerian since November.

Rangers boss Clement was asked about Dessers' future at the club, and he had the following to say:

“It’s a difficult question, that one. If Cyriel goes, you need to replace him, and it needs to be at least the same quality. If a player stays and he plays less and he becomes, because of that, unhappy and it goes down his level—something I don’t fear with him—it’s also not good for the club. So, we will see in the next two weeks what happens.

“I know if he’s here, he will give everything for the club. And if he leaves, he needs to be replaced by somebody at least of the same quality.

“Cyriel is a great character to have in the dressing room and in the team. He always works hard. Of course, he’s not happy if he cannot get more minutes like he had in the past to play that many minutes, but that’s football at the highest level.

“It’s a competition, but he kept on working, he kept on fighting. That’s why he’s ready also to play these games and to score a hat-trick then. So, that’s what you want to see. We have discussions at least every week. We talk all the time. I think Cyriel shows that he has a desire to do everything for this club. And, of course, he wants to play every game,” Philippe Clement said in quotes revealed by the Daily Record.