I’m still hopeful about where Rangers are heading, but I never thought this was going to be a quick fix. If you rip everything up and start again, you can’t expect it to all go smoothly in a few months.
The truth is, the club has had to be built from the ground up again. Proper foundations, proper structure, proper planning. For too long we simply didn’t have that, and you can see the impact of it every time we lurch from one mini-rebuild to the next instead of steadily improving what’s already there.
Foundations Before Flashy Fixes
Throwing money at the problem, even if we had loads of it, isn’t the answer. We’ve seen versions of that already. Big turnover of players, big promises, then we’re sitting a year or two down the line asking how we ended up back at the same point.
What we actually need is a squad that grows together. A core of players who develop, improve and are added to, not a situation where if we don’t win the league we just torch the whole team and start again. That kind of churn might feel satisfying in the short term, but it’s no way to build a proper football club.
The best sides don’t replace eleven players at a time. They tweak, they upgrade one or two, they coach what they’ve got, and they stick to a plan. That’s the kind of thinking we need to lean into, otherwise every season becomes another reset button.
Owners, Structure And Football People
That’s where the new ownership comes in. Hopefully they really understand business and then let proper football people get on with the football side. Getting that mix right is harder than it sounds, and we’ve already seen in recent years how easy it is to get it wrong.
Bringing in the right people is difficult. You can draw up all the presentations you want, but until folk are actually in the building and dealing with the pressure that comes with Rangers, you don’t really know. That’s why having a clear structure and a long-term plan is so important. If someone leaves, you plug into the same direction, not rip it up again.
Scottish Football Is Its Own Beast
Another thing people coming into the club need to understand is that Scottish football is its own kind of challenge. The style is different, the pace is different, the physicality is different. Teams raise their game against Rangers every single week, and that is just the reality.
On top of that, the expectation here is brutal. Fans don’t like losing, they don’t like drawing, and the reaction when it happens can be fierce in a way new managers, players or executives simply won’t have seen before. There’s no hiding place. Once they accept that and get their head around it, they’ll be fine, because it’s part of what makes the club what it is.
So yes, I’m still hopeful. But the path forward isn’t another massive clear-out or a wild spending spree. It’s foundations, patience, and football people who actually understand both Rangers and the unique demands of the Scottish game.
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