Steven Gerrard has revealed that Leon Balogun will be out for a few weeks with a calf/achilles injury.

The defender limped out of training yesterday after penning a new deal at Ibrox earlier this week.

Gerrard told Rangers TV: "I think he must have got too much of a pay rise because it seems to be weighing him down.

"He got injured yesterday in training unfortuntely. We will scan him over the next couple of days. It sounds like he has a calf/achilles injury that we will need to check out.

"Unfortunately he could be missing for a few weeks, which is disappointing because he has been very consistent for us. We are delighted to have him for another year."

The defender has been an integral part of Steven Gerrard's side this season and helped Rangers clinch the Premiership title as well as reach the last 16 of the Europa League.

Balogun has yet to play in front of supporters in Scottish football and is determined to sample that experience after triggering a clause in his deal that earned him another year at Ibrox.

After signing his new deal Balogun said: “Today is a very happy day and a very proud day announcing my contract has been extended for another year.

“I am proud to be a part of this amazing club and I felt that pretty early on I had fallen in love with the club and the working environment, the way the players and the management staff work and the way the club is a big family, I am happy and proud that I can call myself a Rangers player.

“I am happy to be a part of the team that won the league, but what we have been saying recently is we are just getting started and I am happy that I can be a part of this.

"I said a few weeks in to one of my family, I wish I had been at a club and an environment like this early-on in my career.

“I am very, very happy and proud that this can now be announced. One thing too, I was never going to leave before witnessing a full Ibrox Stadium, and if everyone was happy, I was going to stay.”