The Scottish Premiership table indicates just how big a job that Rangers have on their hands this summer.
Add the enormous gap to Celtic and the 13 titles in 14 years and the need to build a settled and high quality Rangers squad couldn’t be more obvious.
Kevin Thelwell as the new sporting director, also has to find someone who can lead them for 3 years or more rather than the current cycle of sacking every 12-18 months.
The next Rangers manager has to hit the ground running, but at least Barry Ferguson – and the players – have shown that there is nothing to be scared of across the city in terms of head to head games.
Signing the players needed to make a difference against the rest of the SPFL will be key with Africa Foot claiming that Rangers are after a winger who once cost £13m.
Rangers linked with winger Moussa Djenepo
Moussa Djenepo, 26, is currently on loan at Antalyaspor from Standard Liege and is said to be available for a cut-down fee of £2m – well within Rangers’ budget.
With 33 international caps for Mali and over 70 appearances in the Premier League for Southampton, Djenepo seems like a solid find.
Leeds United have also been credited with an interest in a player who now has experience of England, Turkey and Belgium.
There is a sizeable but though.
Why Rangers should give Djenepo the swerve
As a left winger, Djenepo hasn’t exactly set the heather alight in terms of numbers.
Only a handful of goal contributions this season and just 20 goals across his senior career.
Given his age, this isn’t the sort of form that is going to excite Rangers fans.
He might well be a good player, capable of causing opposition defences problems, however, as Celtic have shown, the front three need to produce the sort of numbers that Vaclav Cerny and Abdallah Sima have.
Rangers need to aim the bar an awful lot higher if the San Francisco 49ers are to make the sort of impact everyone hopes that they will.
