As if Rangers don’t already have enough absences through injury, influential midfielder John Lundstram is also set to miss the clash with Ajax through suspension.
The 28-year-old midfielder is currently in a much-richer vein of form with the player being employed further forward in a more box-to-box role as injuries take their toll.
But Rangers will have to welcome Ajax to town without the midfielder after John Lundstram was shown a rather needless yellow card in the 3-0 defeat away to Napoli.
A mainstay for Rangers during the club’s flailing Champions League campaign, Lundstram was carded for hauling back Tanguy Ndombele to stop a counter attack in the middle of the pitch.
This was John Lundstram’s third caution of the competition, with the ex-Sheffield United man also picking up bookings against Napoli at Ibrox and Liverpool at Anfield.
This just adds to the seemingly ever-swelling list of absences of Ibrox with Lundstram set to join several key first-teamers on the sidelines.
Connor Goldson, John Souttar, Filip Helander, Tom Lawrence, Ianis Hagi, Ryan Jack, Kemar Roofe and now Ridvan Yilmaz will all miss the match.
There are also major doubts surrounding Finnish international midfielder Glen Kamara and £4m summer signing Ben Davies.
Rangers star John Lundstram details “honest conversations”
The John Lundstram suspension comes with the midfielder having scored in each of Rangers’ last three Scottish Premiership fixtures.
The most recent of which came against Aberdeen, with Lunny firing the Gers into the lead on the stroke of halftime.
Speaking after the 4-1 win, John Lundstram also shifted the pressure away from Rangers manager Giovanni van Bronckhorst by insisting the club’s poorer performances this season are down to the players.
The Ibrox star also insists there have been honest conversations about the need to improve.
“There have been conversations, and honest conversations as well, about how we need to react and keep our standards and how we all need to look ourselves in the mirror to get the performances back to where it needs to be,” said Rangers star John Lundstram.
“Our league form before the Livi game, results wise, was OK, we were in a good spot. Champions League is a different level, and we could have done better in the Champions League, of course we could, but that is a different level.
“The main priority has always been the league and before the Livi game we were in a good spot really. Sometimes the performances weren’t great but results wise we were fine.
“Livi was a massive dip and a massive disappointment for everyone and there was honest conversations that got said and was needed as well.
“Everything comes from the individual. I said to the lads after the game against Livi, you should turn up every day to training wanting to win.
“For me, individually you have got to have a drive in you that you want to win. That is in possession boxes in training, in five v fives in training and especially on a Saturday.
“I think it is all down to an individual and then you have got to come together as a squad and put that together.”
Meanwhile, football fans everywhere are rejoicing after a Rangers legend landed a very public gig.
