Here's every word of what Philippe Clement had to say ahead of Rangers' meeting with Kilmarnock in the Scottish Premiership.

How is the squad after the weekend heading into this game tomorrow night?

In general, positive. I talked about that already. Nana will not be available the next couple of months, so I cannot repeat that. Tom Lawrence is still working individually. I expect him
back in the short term. Rabbi Matondo and Oscar Cortes are doing parts of the training, so they are close to being available again in the training and later on in the games. We need to see their level then, of course, at the moment. Dujon Sterling is still a doubt for tomorrow, but that's a question of days, so it's really short-term.

How big a frustration is that with Dujon? He doesn't seem to be able to string that number of games together.

No, but I told you guys and I think if I compare with a lot of other managers you guys get a lot of information. Because I even went into details about that. It's not an injury, it's something that can happen in the human body. It's not even an injury because of load or whatever. So that's unlucky. We tried to solve it fast, the medical staff tried to solve it fast and you cannot do more. But of
course, he was doing well, so you want to keep these players available, but it's part of life.

What do you have to show the Ibrox crowd that you perhaps have not shown them at times this season?

To score more goals. I think that's a major one. We didn't concede much, but we have to score more goals and to be more lethal in the final third. In that way and looking also with the players available, how we can create this. Of course, we talk now about the list. There are several important offensive players that we were missing. Danilo is coming back now. He was all the time not available. Ianis is also with the situation before. He's coming back, giving other options. Hamza, he's taking really good steps. I think one month ago, a lot of people were saying, why do we buy a Moroccan guy who doesn't have any experience at this level? People start to see now why, but he needs to take further steps in the next couple of months. We start to get options there in the offensive part and that's crucial for sure. In a club as raised with so many games, we will have now 16 games in the next eight weeks. It's going to be very important that you can also have a kind of rotation in those positions, but a rotation that you can put quality in every minute that players are on the pitch. That's crucial to get results. 

Is Robin Propper ok?

Yes, he's okay again. He was sick during the game. He got a knock on the knee also, but both those things are resolved.

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Speaking about the goals, are you satisfied with the amount and the quality of chances you're creating?

You always want better, but the last couple of weeks, we gave a lot of time in the box. We had a lot of good chances that were saved really well against the United and St Johnstone also. You always want more, of course, but you need to create this automatism between players. In that way, from last season, look at the starting line-up offensively. There's not one player from last season who started, for example, the last game. We have a lot of new players in that area also. You need to find connections. I don't want to make comparisons too much with other teams, but the better player in the offensive part on the other side of the town was six months ago, or last season, he was not starting there [Nicholas Kuhn]. He needed time after the transfer to get his rhythm, to get his
connection with other players. We're working on that with all these guys. It's about small details and it's about getting the confidence and getting the goals. You see that we come more and more in a good way in the box and we get more and more chances. That's the way we need to continue.

Philippe, your immediate target in the league will be to close in on Aberdeen. They dropped points at the weekend. Could tomorrow night be another big opportunity for you?

No, it's not about closing down. It's about taking the points yourself. It's all about that. It was the same story last season. It's about us taking the points and not being focused on what others are doing. You don't have any control on that. What we need to control is taking the points ourselves and focusing on that. Not throwing away points like we did, for example, against Dundee United. By not scoring the second goal, although we had ten shots on target. Those games you need to kill them.

Philippe, I'm sure John Gilligan said there will be funds available in January to strengthen. Do you feel that's what you need to strengthen, those forward areas together?

I'm not going to go into detail with that because that's something to discuss with the board. We have other parts also to strengthen. I think to be competitive every three days. But those are things to discuss with the boards. For sure, the funds haven't been done yet. It's going to be in the near future that we need to see the reality of that.

Do you feel you need to do that in January to achieve what you want to achieve?

I think it's necessary that we can do good things. Like every team wants, like every manager wants, we will see what's possible.

Just talking about scoring more goals, is that a big difference you've noticed since coming to Scotland?

No. Sometimes it's not just about winning games, you've got to do it in style as well. No, totally not. I don't know if you know what teams I've been in the past. We've also always been teams that were created a lot of chances. Last season also we scored a lot of goals. Sima left, he scored 16 goals last season. We need to find a replacement for that also in the automatism, in that way. We always play to score goals, to play attacking football. We're not a team that's defending and waiting and reacting. We take the ball and we want to create chances. Do we need to be better in our runs, in our timing, in our coordinated play in the final third? Yes, we need to become better. But that's the matter of working on that, training on that. Training moments are not so big. So it's a lot with video, it's a lot with doing it in the games. But you see also the transition we had to make in the last couple of months in these offensive positions. So it's a work that's getting better. [If] two goalkeepers of Dundee United and St. Johnstone didn't do a really good job in those two games also. Then maybe we didn't have this talk today also. That's also football. So the most important thing is to keep on creating that. And I see in the finishing we get more and more shots on target than in the beginning of the season. 

You were saying earlier that injuries are contributing to the lack of goals or creativity or whatnot. So for the fans who are getting frustrated, is it a case of patience? Is that what your message to them is?

Yes, of course. But I know, I understand that fans want goals and everything and wins. Like I use the word sexy wins and you guys use the word also, I hear. No, I want that. I want that. I want domination. I want that we don't give away chances. We put a lot of energy in our offensive play, in our training in that way, in scoring goals. We did also in several moments because it's not that we had also a 6-0 win. We had in Europe two times that we scored four goals. So you cannot say we're not a team that wants to create. In also the last two games, we scored one goal, but we had I think one time nine shots on target. The other one game 10 shots on target and the opponent one time. So we're pushing in that way. It's keep on pushing, making it better, making the runs better, making the timings better, making the finishing better. That's a work in progress. Of course, the more quality you have naturally from players, the more easy it will get. So I hope to get players who did really well in that way. This season and last season with Oscar and Rabbi in that way to get them back in the squad. That will help the squad also. Like in every team when they miss players who were important before, it's not so easy to replace all the time. For sure not with every three days. With Vaclav and Nedim, they had to play almost every minute of the last month. And then you miss sometimes that little bit of freshness also to kill them.

How much improvement do you need for the games next week?

It's about Kilmarnock now. It's game by game, totally different kind of games also. So it's focusing on the next one and after on the next one. And it's about that. And then looking with the squad who's available to make the right choices. Also to keep some freshness that they need. A kind of rotation in the squad also. And looking that game by game to get the three points and to go for that. All the games are important. We cannot say those two are important and the rest not. So every game is important for us. If we want to achieve what we want to achieve. So focus on the next one, that's the most important.