Rangers are paying the price for shopping in the Bargain Bin | OneFootball

Rangers fans trying to recover from last night’s mauling, certainly in the first half against Club Bruges, may be currently licking their wounds, but the simple reality of what Rangers are was laid bare. Rangers EFL targeting haunts.

Luck

As Ibrox Noise reported recently, it was damn blind luck that got us through the previous two rounds. Bizarrely an opponent who couldn’t score in Panathinaikos, then one who had just lost their very best player in Pilsen. Consequently, both rounds carried a lot of fortune for Rangers. We hoped that that fortune could carry us past Bruges as well.

Going by that first leg, albeit the second half, did stem the bleeding. Rangers have little to no chance of even scoring in Brussels. The reality is this, if your club is going around signing League One/championship level managers and League One/Championship level players, then a League One/Championship club is what you will have.

Rangers should be a bit better than that, a bit more demanding to say the least, but by signing half of the lower EFL, we have turned into that. That’s really not sufficient when you’re going up against Belgian champions who have a penchant for scoring goals. Bruges are not a world-class team but they are considerably better than Rangers are right now and that showed in the first half. Rangers EFL targeting haunts.

Cost

We can talk about individual mistakes but it’s the players that this manager is signing that are making them. It is players that this manager is selecting that are making them and crucially it is the system that is causing it. It simply doesn’t work and it could now have cost Rangers up to £60M.

We will of course see what transpires next week in Brussels, in Bruges and find out if there is a shock comeback to be had by this team. We really can’t see it though. To say that Bruges have got one foot in the Champions League is an understatement.

Is Martin’s position under threat? In all honesty it was under threat after the second goal. It’s been under threat for weeks. He should never have been appointed and we’ve been pretty clear about that. Nevertheless we will see what transpires next week.

The next three games will 100% define Martin’s Rangers career. He has absolutely crashed in the first one against Bruges. He has Paisley this weekend against St Mirren then he has Bruges again then he has Celtic. That will make or break him for sure.

Whether or not a bad outcome in these matches sees the owners fire him, time will also tell. We do know they cheaped out going for this guy and they did it deliberately because Americans are all about profit margins. That’s why they took us over. They wanted to make money but at the end of the day fate will decree what happens.