Findlay Curtis scored again for Kilmarnock on Sunday, helping them to a 4-1 win at Livingston that stretched their run to a fourth successive victory. The 19-year-old finished with the kind of composure that has put his name into Scotland talk at exactly the right time.
Curtis now has five goals and one assist in 14 appearances for Kilmarnock, and his latest strike came in a match where he played on the right of a three-man midfield rather than in one of the wing roles he has filled most often this season. He has been used predominantly on the right and left wing, but he has also spent time at right-back in the last few weeks, a sign of how much trust Kilmarnock have placed in him.
That flexibility has helped him emerge as one of the most eye-catching young wingers in the Premiership, and it comes as Steve Clarke continues to watch him closely. Clarke could name Curtis in Scotland's 26-man World Cup squad for the summer on Tuesday, 19 May, a call that would turn a breakthrough loan spell into something far bigger.
Curtis is on loan at Kilmarnock from Rangers, which is why his progress is being tracked so carefully in Glasgow as well as by Scotland. Danny Rohl is the Rangers boss, and the club's thinking for the summer remains open enough that another loan spell for Curtis has not been ruled out even as Rangers plan several attacking signings.
Former Rangers defender Alan Hutton said Curtis has been improving week-on-week and suggested the teenager's level of performance has already made him hard to ignore. Hutton said that if Curtis were playing at that standard, he would be one of the first names on the Rangers team sheet. He added that pre-season would be huge for him and said Curtis has the quality to keep climbing.
The timing matters because Curtis is not just finishing the season in form; he is doing it while clubs and national-team staff are deciding what the next step should look like. A productive loan has given him exposure, goals and versatility, and the next month could determine whether he returns to Rangers to compete for a place, heads out again on loan or walks into Scotland's summer plans with momentum behind him.
