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Former Falkirk and Inverness manager John Hughes has heaped praise on Scott Arfield after the midfielder’s hat trick on Sunday.

Arfield showed the Ibrox faithful what they have been waiting for all season on Sunday, finally adding some goals from midfield.

The lack of a proper “number ten” and goals from midfield has been a huge issue as the Gers have struggled to break down deep defences in recent months, but that problem could now be solved if Arfield’s performance against Motherwell was anything to go by.

And Hughes, who brought Arfield into his Falkirk side as a teenager, thinks the ex-Burnley ace will have a huge role to play in bringing silverware to Ibrox.

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What did he say?

“I love Scott. I have been on record before as saying he is the kind of player who will end up being first on Stevie Gerrard’s team sheet because he is a manager's dream,” Hughes said, as reported by The Scotsman.

“Actually, the only problem for Scotty is that he can play in a number of positions and you don’t know what his best position is.

“He could play right-back, trust me. He was a great right back and able to bomb on throughout a game.

“He can also play sitting midfield, right wing, left wing and come off a striker and into the pockets of space behind him.

“You look at what he did at Fir Park on Sunday and it was three good goals, really accomplished finishes.

“As I said, he is a manager’s dream. In the way he trains as well as plays. He trains every day like it is his very last day at training. He is at it all the time. Never slacks off.”

Manager's dream

Hughes went on to say that he expects Rangers to compete with Celtic for trophies in the near future, but only with “three or four” new additions to the first team.

And he clearly thinks Arfield will have a huge part to play in any success Gerrard does have at Ibrox, though only time will tell if that comes as a number ten or in one of the countless positions Hughes mentioned.

Either way, the 30 year-old Arfield is an extremely useful player for the gaffer to have at his disposal, and if he can keep up his form heading into next season maybe the club won’t need to sign an out-and-out number ten after all.