When you hire the best, or are successful, organisations higher up the food will always be looking to cherry pick the talent and Rangers are no different.
Steven Gerrard left Ibrox for the Premier League after winning the title, Ross Wilson is now earning plaudits at Nottingham Forest and several players have left the club to go onto “bigger” things.
Rangers manager Philippe Clement has a new problem to contend with after it was announced that head of performance Tom Taylor is heading to Chelsea, but there is an obvious solution.
Why Rangers should make return for fitness guru Jordan Milsom
Taylor has only been at the club for 18-months having worked at both Brighton and West Ham in the past, and it is understandable to see him leave for the same job in more illustrious surroundings and, undoubtedly, for better pay too.
With former Gers boss Gerrard removed from his duties at Al Ettifaq, his staff is also either out of work, or due to leave in the imminent future, including head of performance Jordan Milsom.
He knows Auchenhowie, knows the demands of Rangers, and built, arguably, the fittest Rangers team of all time.
His contract in Saudi Arabia expires in the summer and Patrick Stewart, or Nils Koppen, should have his name at the top of the list to replace Taylor.
Why Milsom is the perfect fit for Rangers
When Milsom first arrived at Rangers, one thing was clear, fitness was going to be a key component of Gerrard’s plans:
“The manager’s style of play I think is going to be quite aggressive, both in and out of possession,” he told Rangers TV in the summer of 2018.
“To play that way, you need to be able to physically cope with that, not only within a game, but repeated games.
“If we want to be a successful as we want to be, that is going to involve playing 38 league games and hopefully a lot of cup games.
“So, we are talking of between 50 and 60 games competitively for Rangers, and then the international lads may have another 10 or so games on top of that.
“We need to make sure the lads are capable of repeating those games and dealing with the stresses. My job is to prepare them in the best way possible for those demands.”
They say in football that you should never go back, unless to go back gives you the best chance of moving forward that is.
