Robin Propper admits Rangers fan patience is thin as he makes Philippe Clement admission

Robin Propper admits he's still finding his feet at Rangers after his £1.5million summer move from FC Twente.

The Dutchman, 31, was snapped up as a replacement for Connor Goldson but has yet to win over the Ibrox faithful - or Philippe Clement. Propper has started just 15 games so far, with a place alongside first-choice John Souttar still up for grabs. After spending his entire career in the Netherlands, the centre-back confessed adapting to Scottish football has been a major learning curve as he discussed the pressures of playing in front of a demanding Rangers crowd.

He told Dutch football website Voetbalprimeur: "Despite my age I still have to get used to Scottish football. In the Eredivisie there's a lot of focus on tactics and on footballing ability and teams want to build from the back. But over here the focus lies more on the end result. You are playing against opponents whose goalkeeper hits the ball long upfield.

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"Many Scottish teams want to get forward as soon as possible. They'll play long balls over the opposing defence to quickly get in on their goal. You also hear from the crowd that they want us to get the ball forward as well. But in Holland we'll maybe opt to play it wide, or even take time in possession. Sometimes there isn't the patience for us to do this over here."

Propper has found himself in and out of the starting line-up as he battles Leon Balogun for a start at the heart of the defence. But he added: "I'm enjoying it here, but I certainly don't play every game. There is room for improvement. The manager changes his line-ups according to which team we are playing.

"That's perhaps something we are not so used to in Holland and as a footballer you want to play as many games as possible. Back home I mainly used to think about playing short passes in to our forward players.

"Then they would receive the ball, but if you try it here it goes behind them. So I need to position myself differently, and use my body differently. But that's why I have come here - to learn something new. My plan is to become an undisputed first-team regular by the end of the current season. That's what I'm aiming to do."