Danilo convinced young striker Youssef Chermiti will come good for Rangers

Danilo has backed much-maligned team-mate Youssef Chermiti to come good at Rangers but concedes the big-money price tag is doing the Portuguese striker no favours at Ibrox.

The 21-year-old has scored just once since arriving from Everton in the summer for a reported fee in excess of £8million, the second-highest fee paid by the Light Blues.

Unimpressed fans were again dismayed by another couple of missed chances in the club’s 2-0 Europa League defeat by Roma on Thursday night which left Rangers languishing bottom of the 36-team league phase with no points from four fixtures.

Danilo, 26, joined the club from Feyenoord in 2023 in a deal reportedly worth up to £6millon and, in part due to injuries, has only sporadically hit the heights, although he has been utilised by new head coach Danny Rohl.

Ahead of Sunday’s trip to Dundee, the Brazilian striker said: “If you come with some price tag then fans want to see why you are this price tag.

“With performances you can show why you are a certain amount. But then time will tell.

“He’s just been playing a few months. So day-by-day he’s trying to improve.

“I see some improvements since he arrived. I think things will come naturally as well.

“Every player gets the time to improve himself. I’m not the one that will tell him the future, like he’s going to be a top scorer.

“He’s trying to do as best as he can. Same as me.

“Every time I’m on the pitch I try to do everything I can to help the team and my team-mates.”

Danilo, however, knows patience is not a commodity in vast supply at Rangers.

He said: “I’ve experienced that as well. It’s my third season.

“The fans want to see the immediate effect. It’s not been the way the fans were hoping. But it’s a process, especially with the new manager.

“I think he got the fans back to us as well. That’s what we needed.

“We’re on the right track. Everybody’s a unit. Things will move forward, 100 percent.”

Dundee boss Steven Pressley is braced for a Rangers side intent on pressing his team under the recently-appointed Rohl.

“I met Danny a year or so ago,” Pressley said. “He came into Brentford with the Barca manager (Hansi Flick).

“I spoke to him and he’s very knowledgeable. He has good ideas in the game.

“He’s from a background with emphasis on pressing. We’ve seen that in his team.

“He’s changed the system to go to a 3-4-3 formation but he’s also changed in games against Celtic and Roma to go to a back four.

“We don’t know what they will play at the weekend, they might play with a three or might play with a four but we need to be ready for whatever system they play.”