IT tells you how highly that Ryan Kent is rated, and how well he has performed this season, that he was included in the lists for both the Player and Young Player of the Year awards by PFA Scotland this week.

If you are looking for excitement and someone that has entertained people, then he has certainly done that this year since moving on loan from Liverpool. He takes people on, he is quick, he sets up goals and he scores goals.

So I am pleased to see him up for both prizes and he certainly has a chance of lifting one of them when the winners are announced on Sunday night. It doesn’t surprise me that he is in the running.

He is a young lad that has certainly got a lot still to learn, but he has become a favourite of the Rangers fans this season and they are delighted with how he has come on, especially in a league like this.

Ryan has been on loan at a number of clubs in recent years but he has come up to Ibrox and really impressed in front of full houses every week. He has handled that pressure and he hasn’t been daunted by the challenge at just 22-years-old.

He has been one of the entertainers of the season and he certainly deserves his place amongst the top four in both categories. It is fine for the journalists to hand out their prizes and they see a lot of games over the course of the campaign.

But Ryan has clearly impressed people when they have played against Rangers this year and I don’t think there has been a full-back that has had an easy time against him.

He has certainly benefitted from the loan spell at Rangers. Steven Gerrard has been delighted with him and Ryan seems happy at Ibrox.

He would have known last summer that he wouldn’t get a sniff at the Liverpool first team right now, certainly not with the attacking players that they have got.

So he had to go out on loan again and what he has done in Scotland will have brought him to the attention of a lot of clubs in England. Rangers have enhanced his career.

With the greatest of respect to those clubs he has been at, they don’t have the same fanbase as Rangers, they are not the same size as Rangers. Here, he has a chance to showcase his talents to thousands every week and he is playing regularly at club where there is a pressure to perform and an expectation to win.

The more you play, the better you will become and Rangers is the opportunity for him to take his career to the next level again as Steven looks ahead to another European campaign and the new term domestically.

It would be wonderful if we could get him for another season and I have no doubt he would be even better next term if a deal could be done to bring him back.

If Rangers can afford him, great. But it depends whether Liverpool want to hold onto him for another year or to just sell him and cash in.

I think Ryan would want to stay at Rangers if he can. He has enjoyed himself here and another season with Steven would do him the world of good.

If he goes back to Liverpool, he would be playing for the Reserve team and maybe getting on the bench now and again. He would get ten minutes here and there, but that isn’t going to improve his career.

If he is happy in Glasgow and happy playing for Rangers, then another loan deal makes sense for us and for Ryan. Now it is down to Liverpool and what they think is best for them and their player.