PEDRO Caixinha was last night urged to build his team around players' player of the year Kenny Miller - even though the striker will turn 38 in December and is one of the few men at the club who is not as yet under contract for next season. Even in a poor Hampden semi-final showing on Sunday which showed few of their players in the best light, Miller stuck to his task until the death and was one of the few men in a Rangers jersey capable of testing Craig Gordon. The veteran striker still feels capable of playing for another season at the top level, which makes it all the more surprising that the Portuguese manager has yet to indicate that he will be offered a contract to stay on. Speaking at the launch of the nomination process for the Scottish Football Hall of Fame, Rangers legend Willie Henderson insisted that the veteran is a man who Caixinha can mould his team around.

"The manager is just in the door," said Henderson. "The game’s all about players and a manager can only do so much with what he’s working with. He has just arrived and it would be very unfair to judge him just now. Next year would be the time to do it when you see what squad he has and then you can have a fair judgement on him.

"Who can he build around?" he asked. "The keeper [Wes Foderingham] is very good," he added. "I think the left back which has been brought in, the young boy [Myles] Beerman, looks a good prospect. And while Kenny Miller would be the first to say that he is is the wrong side of 30 but he has had a great year.

"Kenny has been a great player in Scotland - some of these players will never reach the level of Kenny Miller. I don't know what the situation is, whether he has been offered something by other clubs which is better. But he is player of the year, he is a great professional and maybe we should build the team around Kenny. Just for another year, and pick the games where you play him. Because he has been unbelievable."

The former Rangers winger - who attended the club's player of the year function on Sunday night - feels that perhaps as little as four members of the squad assembled by Mark Warburton are worth retaining as Caixinha looks to reshape his squad this summer. He feels only a couple would make the grade at Celtic right now. "How many should the manager keep this summer?" he asked. "Maybe four? We need a lot of players. Players get a level and I think for a few of these players that was their level, when they were in the Championship. They are now into the Premiership and they are not good enough. Maybe a couple would make the Celtic team, but it would be a hard pick."