Former Rangers midfielder Charlie Adam has revealed that he is willing to play in the Ladbrokes Premiership come the New Year.

The 32-year-old has become a peripheral player with Championship club Stoke City and has started only one game – a 3-2 EFL Cup defeat at Nottingham Forest in September – this season under new manager Gary Rowett.

His contract at the bet365 Stadium expires at the end of the current campaign but he would prefer to be playing regular first-team football before then.

“A loan is something I would look at,” he said. “I will discuss it when it’s closer to the time but I want to play and Scotland is, hopefully, an option.”

On Saturday Adam turned out for a Rangers XI in Kris Boyd’s testimonial match at Rugby Park and that gave him a taste for it.

‘It is great to come back and relive the old stories,” he said. “I played with a couple of the lads, but I was younger when Michael Mols and that were around. These players were guys I looked up to around the squad when I was a young kid.”

Adam, who played for Liverpool during the 2011/12 season before signing for Stoke, was a team-mate of current Rangers manager Steven Gerrard at Anfield and has been impressed by his work at Ibrox.

“You need to be single-minded; Steven had that as a player and that is why he was one of the best in the world,” he claimed. “You need that drive and determination to be the best you can. He just wanted to knock everyone out of the way and he will be the same as a manager.

“He’ll want to win no matter what. He’ll be putting all his time and effort into that club because you simply won’t get success if you don’t. He’s had a couple of early bumps and bruises with the semi-final loss to Aberdeen and a few bad results as well as the European game in Moscow.

“He’s a young coach still learning the game and he will make mistakes. It’s how he adapts during games and how he analyses it afterwards.

“It’s also about having the right people behind you. A lot of people might have crumbled by now. You saw it with Pedro Caixinha; he struggled. The pressure got to him.

“A lot of other managers have had it and struggled with the pressure. Steven will relish the challenge because he has always done that as a player. He’ll expect people to be doubting him and will want to prove them wrong.”