How do Rangers and Danny Rohl attract better players than Joe Rothwell? | OneFootball

A big problem that Rangers now have going forward is unfortunately the lack of attraction of the club. With Thelwell and Patrick Stewart gone now, Rangers fans are understandably optimistically positive for the future. The problem is that there is going to be no Europe very soon unless some staggering turnaround happens under Danny Rohl. While there is also no figurehead at the club who attracts players.

Gerrard’s pull and reputation

Steven Gerrard might not have attracted the world’s biggest superstars, but he definitely got a pretty good Rangers squad. The likes of Scott Arfield, Allan McGregor, Steven Davis and Jermaine Defoe were among four of the big names that came to Rangers, in part because of Gerrard. Unfortunately, Danny Rohl does not have the same clout. He does not have the same reputation or general gravitas in football.

Lack of managerial gravitas

He is only 36 and wasn’t even a player back in the day (unless you count a brief stint before he turned 22). He doesn’t really have a reputation, just like Davide Ancelotti doesn’t either. Just by being an assistant in a successful regime does not give you solo managerial clout. Indeed, Ancelotti’s performance in Brazil suggests that he hasn’t been particularly great on his own either.

Roll’s limited impact

But Rohl, as a Championship manager, and having lost three times in three big matches for Rangers, is not really a manager that players are going to want to come to Ibrox for especially. He is a likeable and affable chap, of that there is no doubt. But we cannot see how Rangers are going to get big players when all we have to offer is the SPL.

Big names of the past

As we said before, Steven Gerrard was a big name. To be fair, so was Giovanni Van Bronckhorst and Philippe Clement. Rohl and Martin aren’t and weren’t, and the players that have come during these times reflect that. Unfortunately, going forward, January doesn’t seem to us at Ibrox Noise to be a month in which we can just fix the mess that Thelwell left.

Serious problems ahead

The problems are quite significant for this club unfortunately. We don’t know how long it will take to get a Rangers level squad and a Rangers level manager. Right now we are very middling and any players who come will be demanding big wages.

Limited transfer market

The market that we were in last summer, pretty much League 1 and Championship, is still the market we will be in now. It’s not that we can’t afford better players, it’s more that the better players will not come to us. Chermiti was of course £10M. One would think that’s a big budget for big players. But it reflects the fact that we can’t get the big players, the good players, the in-demand players to actually come to Rangers.

Poor recruitment and low standards

We get all the EFL slop, the surplus, the Premier League cast-offs that weren’t good enough. Joe Rothwell and Max Aarons, two perfect examples of Premier League cast-offs who weren’t good enough for their Premier League clubs and certainly aren’t good enough for Rangers. But it’s what we’ve ended up with.

The quality issue

Add to that the League 1 garbage that is Fernandez and Aasgaard. And Rangers really aren’t able to attract, even with money, the players that we need to get better. And Danny Rohl, as a Championship level manager, probably won’t have the clout in the game to attract much better either.

Reputation means nothing

People will look at his links with Hansi Flick of former Bayern and now Barcelona. But at the end of the day, just because you know somebody big in football doesn’t mean you can sign Lionel Messi.

Deep slump at Ibrox

We do not know how on earth Rangers can get out of this rather big slump. Yes, we discussed this yesterday as well, but we’re trying to process it a little more clearly as to why we’re in the position that we’re in. It’s not just Thelwell. He isn’t the only cause of this chaos. It’s where we’re at and who the managers are. And of course, Russell Martin was Patrick Stewart’s appointment. So it’s all a bit of a mess. All good news, isn’t it?