Tjaronn Chery sidestepped suggestions this week he was Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink’s go-to man at QPR.

Hasselbaink suggested in a recent GetWestLondon interview to fans his preference for a 4-4-1-1 was due to the form of the diminutive Dutch midfielder in the hole behind target-man Sebastian Polter.

Consequently, moving the 28-year-old out wide to accommodate the second striker fans have been calling for would diminish the powers of someone he termed ‘one of his better players.’

Despite this ringing endorsement, Chery preferred to focus on the need to improve the fortunes of Rangers as a unit and ending a run of three successive defeats at Birmingham on Saturday.

“I don’t want to tell about the manager building a shape around me,” he said.

“I feel good, but I know I have to work hard as well to keep on going. I’ve scored some goals and I am happy with that, but we have to also win the games together, then I can do well.”

Chery, who is approaching 50 appearances for the Hoops since joining from FC Groningen in summer 2015, did though admit he enjoys the responsibility of playing behind Polter whose physicality helps create him the room to trouble rival defences.

But he stressed Rangers, who have been guilty of playing too narrow, too often this term, need to shorten their passing and spread the game if they are to get the best from their manager’s preferred formation.

“Sebastian is a really strong striker and we have to stretch the pitch because if we can do that I have a lot of space behind him and if I get the ball there we can be a little bit dangerous, he added.

“Sometimes we have lost the ball when we’ve played long. Then you have to fight for the second ball and that is why everybody is together (narrow).

“That is why everybody has to stretch, then we get space between the lines and we look good.”