Cyriel Dessers gets Philippe Clement Rangers investment vow as Belgian plans deep January transfer search to find the 'good fish'

Philippe Clement has vowed to do all he can to get Rangers misfit Cyriel Dessers back firing again.

The £4.5million signing was Michael Beale’s No.1 target this summer. But the former Feyenoord and Cremonese front man has been a major disappointment so far. The Belgian-born Nigeria international has managed just three goals in 15 appearances and has found himself repeatedly singled out for stick by seething supporters.

Beale paid the price for failing to get a tune out of Dessers and has now been replaced by Clement. But the new boss is confident he can help his fellow Flanders-native rediscover his missing mojo having performed a similar rejuvenation trick at former club Genk. He said: “I will give him all the tools for that and then it’s about him doing it. That’s the same for every player. We will give them the tools to get the best out of them.

“Then it’s for the player to take it. I have seen this process before.

“That’s why I say we need to give all possibilities for the players to step up. You always have surprises.

“I had it in Genk. I had two strikers there, Nikolaos Karelis who was scoring all the time and then there was Ally Samatta who didn’t play because he never scored goals. Everyone said ‘this guy never scores a goal’. But we worked really hard with Ally, like with all the other players, and he took it.

“He became better and after a few weeks I put Ally in the team more and more and he started to score goals. The next season he was top scorer in Belgium and the season after that he made a good transfer to Aston Villa.

“So we will invest in all the players to get the best out of them. Then it’s up to them to take this chance and make the most out of it.

“If you say already that they’ve succeeded before