Motherwell's McCormack is sold on a move to Wigan

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McCormack was forced to quit Ibrox following a highly-successful loan spell at Doncaster Rovers after being given the shattering news that he was surplus to Rangers' requirements.

But Bruce has guaranteed McCormack a starting place following pre-contract talks with the 21-year-old Fir Park star yesterday.

"Steve Bruce has been brilliant," McCormack said. "He told me that he doesn't want me as a squad player and assured me that I will be given my chance in the first team.

"He also told me that I should use Wigan as a stepping stone to bigger things and he believes I am capable of doing that, which was nice to hear."

McCormack insists that he now wants to move on from Motherwell and put the past behind him after rediscovering the form that at one time had him earmarked as a future Rangers star.

But he will never completely erase from his memory the moment when he was told by his former employers that he was no longer wanted.

McCormack added: "Being rejected by Rangers really hurt me.

"It was hard to take after being attached to the club since the age or eight or nine and progressing through each level to the first-team squad.

"But I had to leave and what is happening with Wigan fully justifies my decision to come to Motherwell.

"The fact is it just wasn't happening for me at Rangers. I had to get out after a lot of people in the game, such as Ian Durrant and John Brown, assured me that if I did go elsewhere and played regularly a move like this would eventually come about.

"There are a lot of young boys at Rangers who are probably not going to get their chance and I think it would be best for them if they followed the same route that I have taken. I am proud of what I have done in the past 18 months and it's certainly been nice to have proved a few people wrong."