Camaraderie in a Rangers squad is something which our club and team have clearly been lacking for a long time.
For a football club synonymous with strong bonds amongst teammates – the joyful, cheery, hard-working, party atmosphere of the 9 in a row team famously testament to it – there hasn’t been enough of it, that camaraderie.
The team that drinks together wins together, and all that.
Indeed, everything from the club’s administration, through the banter years, to Pedro Caixinha, and all the way up to Lee Wallace and Kenny Miller clashing with Graeme Murty, has been tinged with player frustration.
There has been little of that togetherness for what felt like a long time.
But under Steven Gerrard and his backroom staff, we’ve seen a revolution in that over the last year.
So much so that club captain James Tavernier pointed it out in a Rangers TV interview.
“We have a great group of lads, there are no bad people in the group, we are all welcoming and we are all good lads,” said Tav.
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It’s not just Tavernier who’s been praising the spirit within the side. Rangers assistant manager Gary McAllister described the mood as “bouncing”.
That camp camaraderie is something that’s also taken new signing Sheyi Ojo aback. A seemingly perennial loanee for a Liverpool side that rate him highly, Ojo’s latest move is to Ibrox.
And if anyone was the sum up the feeling within the camp right now it’s the talented winger.
“I just feel a real part of it already so I think it is the best initial feeling I have had of all the clubs I have been at on loan,” said Ojo to Rangers.co.uk.
“I really have a sense that it is going to be a good season.”
So do we Sheyi, so we do.
