Rangers need evolution, not another reset

Rangers are living with the consequences of years of ripping things up instead of building properly. The last few months have been grim at times, but the real story goes way beyond one bad season or one batch of signings.

Structure, wrong calls and hindsight over Koppen

For a long time Rangers did not have the basic off‑field structure that most bigger European clubs take for granted. No proper chief executive in place, no clear director of football model, and a lot of catch‑up work being done while the team was still expected to win every week.

We tried to fix that and, to be fair, some of the choices look like the wrong ones now. Nils Koppen is a good example. He took plenty of stick at the time, yet looking back a lot of fans would say he actually did a decent job. The irony is that he then apparently did not fit the very structure the club were trying to build. It shows how muddled the thinking has been at the top.

Wholesale change and the price of losing experience

The squad rebuild is another case of bad lessons not being learned. Getting rid of so many experienced players in one go was always a massive risk, and the board have already admitted as much. Those were the lads who had built up European know‑how and lived the pressure of a title race. Take all of them out and you are almost guaranteed to look softer in Europe and in the league, especially when form dips.

We talk constantly about how unique the league is, how different the pressure is, then expect new players to walk in and "get it" instantly. It does not work that way. The support was shouting for wholesale changes last year, and we did get them, but we never balanced that with enough ready‑made experience to help the younger signings through the rough spells. That is on the club, not on the kids.

Backing Danny Rohl and building year on year

The pattern at Rangers is brutal: bad patch, panic, sack the manager, start again from zero. It keeps the noise levels high but it kills any chance of a proper long‑term plan. If we ever want more success over years than failure, we have to break that cycle.

A better way is pretty simple. Identify the good players you already have, add two or three quality signings each summer, and let a manager like Danny Rohl actually coach them between games. The squad right now looks short on confidence, maybe even short on fitness, and is making too many individual errors. That is exactly when a club should hold its nerve, not reset again.

The spine Rangers are crying out for

On the pitch, the needs are not complicated. A proper holding midfielder who can control the tempo and make the team tick would transform the way we play. Someone like that would also free up Nico Raskin to play further forward where his energy and dynamism can do more damage.

At the back, an experienced centre‑half alongside any of the current options would make a huge difference. A talker who organises, keeps his partner switched on and guides them through tricky spells. And up top, we need a clear first‑choice centre‑forward, then treat the younger striker as an understudy to be developed, not thrown in and judged instantly. Chermiti should probably have been handled the way Igamane has been: mentored, bedded in, given a proper six months to show if there is something there.

The transfer fee is already spent and none of that is the player's fault. The real decision is whether we finally stick with a plan and trust the manager who sees these players every day, or whether we tear it up again and stay stuck in the same loop.

Written by Angus1812: 12 December 2025