Rangers boss Danny Rohl says new £4m signing compares to German stars Fredi Bobic and Nick Woltemade

Danny Rohl claims Rangers’ deadline-day signing Ryan Naderi has been favourably compared to past and present Germany stars Fredi Bobic and Nick Woltemade.

The 22-year-old German striker signed late on Monday from Hansa Rostock in a deal reported to be worth about £4million.

Naderi has provided eight goals and five assists in 18 games for the German third-tier club this season and Rohl has liked what he has heard from colleagues back home.

Former Borussia Dortmund, Hannover and Hertha Berlin striker Bobic won 37 caps for Germany and was part of the Euro 1996 winning squad.

Newcastle striker Woltemade, 23, who has been capped eight times by Germany, cost the Premier League club a reported £65m plus £4.3m in potential add-ons when he signed from Stuttgart last summer.

Naderi could feature against Kilmarnock at Ibrox tonight, where third-placed Rangers hope to keep the pressure on Celtic and league leaders Hearts.

Danny Rohl believes he can bring Naderi on to the next level at the Ibrox club

German coach Rohl said: ‘I spoke today with some coaches from Germany and received many messages saying: “Congratulations on a good signing”.

‘They compare him with — hopefully I don’t make him too big now — but they compare him between former player Fredi Bobic and Woltemade.

‘If you can bring him on at this level here, we will have a lot of fun with him. He’s really smart.

‘It’s important that we now give him an environment and this is the big difference between maybe October and now where you have a group, they are going together and they can allow players in to make the next step.

‘In October a lot of players were not self-confident, had a lot of problems with themselves and now you think more and more players are ready to help other players.

‘And we have some great examples now of players going in the right direction. It’s the reason why I’m very convinced he will help us.’

Naderi is the fourth January signing after Denmark winger Andreas Skov Olsen, Danish midfielder Tochi Chukwuani and Belgian left-back Tuur Rommens.

Rohl believes Naderi’s time with Hansa Rostock — despite being from the third tier of German football — will set him up for life at Ibrox.

The former Sheffield Wednesday boss said: ‘The good thing is that he played a lot of minutes in the last couple of weeks.

‘The big question mark always in January, some players need two, three weeks to come to the point and we know this — and he played on the weekend, 90 minutes.

‘This is fantastic, because it gives me opportunity to put him straight in.

‘Tomorrow we will see, we have to do some documents. If everything is sorted, then it should be not a question mark that he is available.

‘When I was talking to him, I felt the fire straight away and the good thing is, I know Hansa Rostock a little bit better than you.

‘You have 25,000, 30,000 crazy fans and that helps to prepare him for our place and this is what I like to see.’