Richard Foster is determined to take his Rangers chance with both hands after signing on a season-long loan on deadline day.
The full-back's switch, which saw Andrius Velicka going the other way to Aberdeen, came out of the blue for a player who had previously played nearly 250 games for just one club.
However, the 25-year-old insists he always had the ambition to move onto bigger things despite only recently penning a new deal with the Dons.
Foster said: "You want to play at the highest level you can. To play for your country and in Europe. I had just signed a contract and didn't expect to be moving so soon but it's a strange game.
I had it in the back of my mind that if I had a really good season someone would come in for me."
The defender is adamant he hasn't joined Rangers just to make up the numbers.
He added: "Maybe some people won't expect that much of me at Rangers because I've only come from Aberdeen.
"But it is a big club, arguably the third biggest in Scotland, so hopefully I can use my experience there to help me. I'm not sitting here thinking: 'I'll sit the season out, maybe get on the bench a couple of times and that will do me.'
"If I do go back to Aberdeen I want to be able to say I gave Rangers everything I could. I don't want to go back thinking I've failed. I suppose it could become a lost season but this was something I couldn't turn down."