Rangers need a root-to-branch review of the club, and there are several areas that need to be improved to improve the chances of first-team success.
One such area is the academy and Gareth Henderby has been linked with replacing Zeb Jacobs in the head of department role.
Known for his involvement in helping to establish the RIght to Dream academy, the potential Rangers youth chief has an impressive list of players who made the big time after leaving Nordsjaelland.
Rangers academy chief target has made Nordsjaelland a fortune
The primary aim at Auchenhowie will always be to ensure that every footballer who comes through the door is given every opportunity to fulfill their potential.
For fans, it is there to make money and to supply the first-team squad with players.
In recent weeks, due to injury, there have been more academy graduates in and around the team.
Robbie Fraser made his first start for the club and Leon King has also returned to the line-up.
Along with Ross McCausland, the trio look set for long and successful careers in the game, whether or not this is at Ibrox is another matter.
Premier League clubs sniffed about King, McCausland and Alex Lowry but with no success, however, Rory Wilson was lost to Aston Villa and he can’t stop scoring goals.
What Philippe Clement would have given to be able to turn to an on form striker capable of making the step up from the B team.
There are good players coming through Auchenhowie who can help to fill the squad and do a job, however, at Nordsjaelland, Gareth Henderby’s role saw the Dane’s make millions.
To be exact, according to reports, he made them £68m if you don’t include Mohamed Diomande’s imminent £4.3m move to Rangers.
Their top three sales of all time were all players signed from the Right to Dream academy after being given a chance in the Danish Superliga.
The players who made Nordsjaelland millions
Ernest Nuamah
Controversially, it was actually Lyon who agreed and negotiated this deal.
Molenbeek ‘paid’ £21m for Nuamah who then went to Lyon on loan with an obligation to buy for the same fee that the Belgian’s paid.
As with the case in modern football, the two clubs are linked through their ownership model.
Ibrahim Osman
Signed in January but hasn’t yet made the move to the Premier League after his £16m transfer.
A signing that shows Rangers deal for Diomande looks like good value, despite his recent slump in form.
Kamaldeen Sulemana
Now at Southampton after a year in Ligue 1, the 22-year old winger hasn’t quite hit the same heights in the rough and tumble of the Championship.
Mohammed Kudus
Now flying at West Ham United, there is every chance that he could be on the move again after impressing under David Moyes.
The £8m that Ajax paid seems like a bargain and shows that sometimes you do have to speculate to accumulate, laughing all the way to the bank when the Hammers paid £39.5m last summer for the winger.
Simon Adingra
Another winger, Adingra has enjoyed a respectable debut season in the Premier League for Brighton after spending last year on loan and will already have added value to his price-tag.
These are the players that, with Gareth Henderby’s connections, Rangers fans could see at Ibrox.
It has been an issue in recent years that players who could have been signed have been missed due to not being brave enough to make the move before they made big breakthroughs.
In Diomande, Clement reckons that he has a player on his hands who, like these above, is heading for the top.
A few more of his ilk from Henderby’s contacts book wouldn’t go a miss to bring success on the field and in the accounts.
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