A Rangers youngster on a Dev Loan is highly unlikely to be a stand-out player in a top division team, no matter how good a prospect they might be. Gerrard, to be fair, didn’t cave into it but there was huge pressure on Worrall from the fans last season. He was nowhere near as bad as some on here would have you believe. Coulibaly wasn’t long in getting the same treatment after a slight dip in form. Gerrard, unlike Higginbotham, wasn’t facing the sack though. Many fans just look at it and say why aren’t we developing one of our own rather than another teams players. If that is in Scotland and the loanee is a Rangers player then it escalates.
Put it this way, I actually think Middleton has the ability to be a better player than Jake Hastie. You might disagree, which is fine, but look at how their respective loans are going.