Rangers will have to pay around £3.5m to rip up the contract of Giovanni van Bronckhorst and his staff, according to a report.
The Daily Record claim that Rangers will have to cough up the hefty fee to sack the Dutchman with the club also set to fork out for a new management team in the coming week.
This means that sacking Gio and his staff will prove a costly endeavour and those within the hierarchy of the club might look at themselves after a failure to properly invest in the summer.
Many Rangers fans criticised a perceived lack of investment ahead of the Champions League campaign and those criticisms carried weight as the Gers crumbled amongst Europe’s elite.
As Celtic spent substantially in the summer too Rangers dallied and lost key players, with the club also now nine points behind domestically.
Rangers pay price after failing to properly back Giovanni van Bronckhorst
Whilst the majority of Rangers fans are in agreement that Giovanni van Bronckhorst had to go, there are still plenty looking above the Dutchman after a downturn in domestic form and some pretty awful squad management.
Not only is the Gers squad ageing, but several key players are out of contract in the summer and a huge chunk of the squad is on the treatment table, with the club showing a propensity for signing players with risky injury histories.
How those in the hierarchy of Rangers might rue not properly investing in the squad in quality additions this summer with the club needing to dig deep to sack the manager anyway.
Attention will turn to who replaces Giovanni van Bronckhorst at Ibrox and there are several names being mentioned in the hunt.
But unless Rangers can learn the lessons of the last few transfer windows, then we suspect we might be revisiting this conversation in the seasons to come.
Meanwhile, one ex-Rangers star sends a BBC journalist scrambling by putting him in his place regarding the management job at the club.
