Cyriel Dessers' major Rangers flaw frustrates the hell out of Kris Boyd

Kris Boydwas a striker who lived and breathed for finding the net. But as far as the Rangers legend is concerned, poachers like him are a dying breed.

Too many frontmen these days, he reckons, are more interested in tying up centre-backs than tallying up goals. And that goes for the man who has inherited the No9 jersey he once wore at Ibrox. Cyriel Dessers now has 19 for the season after Sunday’s Hampden double against Hearts - a figure Boyd can’t deny is a reasonable return, especially for a striker who faced the indignity of being branded a flop before he’d even had the chance to unpacked his bags following his £4.5million move from Italy last summer.

But the SPFL’s record-setting marksman can’t help but think Dessers would have a lot more if he had shown even a flicker of the burning desire for goals he once possessed. The Sky Sports pundit said: “For me, there’s a shortage of goalscorers worldwide.

“When you dissect the death of the striker, it’s scary. It used to be that strikers were obsessed by goals. That was all that matters. I don’t see that that fazes a lot of strikers now, they’re more focused on doing what Cyriel Dessers does - occupying centre-backs and being a nuisance.

“I don’t see that obsession for scoring goals the way strikers of the past were, but I don’t see that in world football anymore because the game’s changed. Nineteen goals is a decent return but what could it have been?

“Is that figure acceptable for an Old Firm striker? Yeah it is… it’s a difficult one because in a way you can say he’s scoring goals. But then every time you leave a match, every time you pick up a paper or tune into a radio station, all the talk is about the chances he’s missed. We’re all guilty of it.

“He’s scored two goals