Ross Davidson playing with Rangers

Loan star Ross Davidson is ready to gamble with his future at Stafford Rangers if the end result is another crack at being a full-time footballer.

The 20-year-old midfielder is stuck in limbo after being released from his boyhood club Port Vale at the end of the season, having finished the campaign with Rangers in his third month at Marston Road.

Davidson this week goes off on a two-week holiday to Pisa in Italy to clear his head before finding a new place to play, looking to arrange trials when the full-time clubs return for pre-season training next month.

Rangers have not given up hope of reforming the partnership with Player of the Year Tom Thorley in the centre for next term should both stay in the semi-professional ranks, with Davidson based fairly locally at Uttoexeter in Staffordshire.

And the youngster will return to train when the squad report back on July 1, although it could only be a passing visit.

He saod: "Stafford has given me another option, because I have played there before and done quite well. But the club can't wait for me to sign, they have got to look at other players and I understand that.

"From my point of view, I have been in full-time football for four years, two as a trainee and two as a pro, it's my trade so I don't want to give up on it. I have had a taste of the Football League and I want to be playing at the highest level that I can.

"I plan go back to Rangers for pre-season and train as normal a couple of nights a week with the rest of the lads, to keep me ticking over and if I hear anything from any full-time clubs I can go from there.

"I will be ringing around to see if I get a few trials, right up to the start of the season."