Rangers have faltered this summer trying to overhaul the club both on and off the pitch with Philippe Clement the man stuck in the middle.
The manager was up against it from the word go with five players heading out the Ibrox exit door who had all, at one stage, been key members of the squad.
Early summer business saw the new arrivals take a younger profile to kick-start a structured player trading model, but what happened to the veterans who left Rangers at the end of the season?
Much of the money Clement has spent has been on securing immediate replacements with Connor Barron arriving to take Ryan Jack’s role, Jefte for Borna Barisic and Hamza Igamane for Kemar Roofe.
Where the famous five are who left Rangers
This is where the five who left Rangers are now.
Jon McLaughlin
The Scotland international went from backup to Allan McGregor, to first choice to third choice in the space of three seasons.
Part of the clean sheet record breaking defence, which often gets forgotten, McLaughlin struggled with the pressure of being number one and his non-homegrown status meant that his contract was never going to be renewed.
The 36-year old has been available all summer until signing for Swansea City in the closing stages of the summer.
Borna Barisic
The much-maligned Croatian was a good signing for £2m, however, with hindsight, should have been sold when there were offers of £6m and upwards on the table.
One of the first to find a club, Barisic is now at Trabzonspor alongside an old Ibrox teammate.
John Lundstram
Like Barisic, the powerhouse midfielder often found himself at the centre of fan criticism but, at one stage, his early form under Philippe Clement suggested that he could be part of the Belgian’s revolution.
His form dropped off a cliff to the extent that Nicolas Raskin kept him out of the Scottish Cup final starting XI.
Now at Trabzonspor with Barisic.
Ryan Jack
Currently spending more time sitting in stands watching games or in TV and podcast studios, Jack returned from the European Championships without any offers and having to train on his own.
At 32 and with a lengthy medical file, it might take for a club to lose a player through injury to turn to the Scotland international after the window shuts.
There were never any doubts about his quality, but his game time in the last three seasons is all the evidence that is needed to explain his current plight.
Kemar Roofe
See above.
Top goal scorer in the season that Rangers last won the league, any Light Blues manager would have taken that version of Kemar Roofe for the other three years of his contract.
Sadly, he just couldn’t stay fit and, aside from a couple of highlights, he was almost forgotten about by the end of his time at the club.
The source isn’t great, but his name has been mentioned as being a possible targe for Bochum, although it’s highly unlikely that Rangers will get the reported £3m fee for obvious reasons.
Currently still without a club.
Five players, all on big wages, with none of them being consistently high level performers and only one of them available every week.
It is this sort of waste and situation that Clement is trying to avoid a repeat of and is half the reason why Rangers have struggled to move players on – the ghosts of recruitment past.
