Northern Ireland captain Steven Davis accepts he faces a fork in the road and a major decision on his international future in the summer.
Davis, who has amassed 132 caps since making his debut in 2005, is part of Ian Baraclough’s squad for this month’s friendlies with Luxembourg and Hungary.
But the 37-year-old Rangers midfielder is out of contract at the end of the season and it remains to be seen if he is offered a new deal at Ibrox.
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No club football would undoubtedly signal an end to Davis’ remarkable international career, although the veteran playmaker insists he is fully focused on the here and now.
“Listen, I’ve got to that stage of my career where I don’t really look too far ahead and I obviously need to see what happens in the summer with my career in general,” he said.
“My only focus at the minute is getting myself back fit and trying to get myself back into the team at Rangers for an important run-in. We’ll see where everything sits after that.
“I've been back in training with the group (at Rangers) and hopefully I can continue making that progress with my fitness with the Northern Ireland squad.
“Hopefully I can get a bit of game time and get myself in a better place.”
On the current uncertainty hanging over his contractual situation at Rangers, Davis said: “That’s nothing unusual. I’ve been in a similar situation the last couple of years and there’s no sort of pressure from that side of things.
“Basically, as I said, the most important thing for me is to get back fit and whenever I get in that rhythm I have confidence in my ability and what I can still do on the pitch.”
Davis, who joined Rangers on a permanent deal in 2019, has been a peripheral figure at Rangers since Giovanni Van Bronckhorst’s arrival as manager in November.
The veteran midfielder has played only five minutes of league action since early-December, although a couple of niggly injuries didn’t help his cause.
“It’s been difficult,” Davis told BBC Sport NI. “Obviously after the winter break, I picked up an injury in the first training session back which kept me out for a few weeks.
“I was then back involved and I felt I was getting into a good place again and getting my rhythm again, but obviously I then picked up another one.
“That’s kept me out for the last few weeks. For me now, I’m just trying to concentrate on getting myself back fit and getting into that rhythm again.”
With Rangers three points behind Celtic in the title race and a two legged Europa League quarter-final against Braga lying in wait, Rangers are staring at a defining April.
Two crucial Old Firm games lurk on the horizon, in the league at Ibrox on April 3 and in the Scottish Cup semi-finals on April 17.
“It’s a huge month,” said Davis. “Whenever you’re playing for a club the size of Rangers and you get to this stage of the season, these are the games you want to be involved in.
“The later it goes, the more important each result carries, so we’re remaining fully focused and the boys are performing well and we’ve still got a lot to achieve this season.
“Hopefully we can finish really strongly.”
Northern Ireland travel to face Luxembourg on Friday before welcoming Hungary to Windsor Park next Tuesday (March 29).
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