How much can Rangers really do in the January transfer window? | OneFootball

It is all well and good looking forward to the January window for Rangers bringing in badly needed reinforcements to improve the quality of this dishevelled squad. We all know that Kevin Thelwell has a lot to answer for, but at the same time, there are still four weeks to go until the window opens and eight weeks till it closes. It is all well and good discussing getting to the January window, but Rangers lose two players during that time to the African Nations Cup. We have already lost Oliver Antman as it is. Rangers January business might help.

Furthermore, it will take time over the course of January to bring all the players that are needed in. We cannot see the full turnover that is needed being done in four weeks, but hopefully something does come in that helps the team. But at the same time, how do Rangers fix this problem now? How do Rangers start to get any sense of consistency?

Fans growing frustrated

Fans are irate at not seeing the likes of Findlay Curtis or Lyall Cameron starting or even featuring all that much. They are even more infuriated at seeing Youssef Chermiti missing an absolute sitter at Tannadice. It is clearly far from good enough, and Danny Röhl must rethink what he is doing because he is currently making very similar errors to all of his predecessors. This is not us saying that it is all on him, but we are saying that a few tweaks could see some kinds of improvement.

Strikers not delivering

The big talking point, of course, is Youssef Chermiti himself. The Portuguese ‘superstar’, with sarcasm of course, has clearly not shone much for Rangers at all. He has struggled to win over fans purely on the basis of the fact that he has been absolutely terrible. Few true Rangers fans would ever deny how poor he has been. Unfortunately, Bojan Miovski hasn’t been much better. That signing hasn’t worked out either. No strikers at Rangers are actually scoring. There was a brief period when Brazilian Danilo started looking a little bit more like a guy who could score. Unfortunately, that has faded completely as well.

Systems not working

So sorting Rangers’ goals problem would definitely help. Creating chances isn’t really happening enough, and what there are, aren’t going in the back of the net enough. Consequently, before the January window even opens, there has to be some system that works. What that could be, we have no idea. We don’t seem to have the players who can click at this point in time, and the manager doesn’t seem to know how to manage what he has.

As we said before, Röhl got a bit of luck in his first four Premiership matches, but that luck has now dried up. Dundee United really shouldn’t have been able to look as strong as they did on Wednesday. Unfortunately, they did. Only a slightly fortuitous penalty saved Rangers’ blushes and spared Röhl from his first league loss. We have to find something that works at some point because the form just isn’t there right now.

The players aren’t delivering. The manager’s systems aren’t working. Nothing much is clicking. And we can’t just rely on the January window as a solution because it in itself isn’t the strongest window of the two. That is well known, unfortunately. It is very rare for really high-quality players to arrive in a January window. It can happen, but not very often.

Röhl has one heck of a task on his hands, we have to say as Rangers January business creeps upon us.