If Rangers signed every player that they are linked with this summer, the squad would be bigger than any that Dick Advocaat had during his tenure as manager.
Five players have left, however, there is still a lot of dead wood that needs to be moved out too and an exodus into double figures is expected.
Jose Cordoba has signed for Norwich City after seemingly agreeing a move to Rangers and another, who was linked with a transfer to Ibrox, has decided their future too.
Rangers miss out on Andres Montano as he makes Mexico move
According to Fox Sports, Andres Montano has signed for Cruz Azul.
The Mexico international, who has made the Copa America squad, is staying in his homeland and playing for a club well known to those who followed the careers of Pedro Caixhina and Carlos Pena after they left Rangers.
It was a shortlived rumour, but it was one grounded in substance after Montano’s agent revealed that Rangers was one of his client’s preferred destinations with the hope of one day making it to the promised land of the Premier League.
The SPFL isn’t for everyone though which is why Rangers are shopping in markets that don’t have a reputation for high transfer fees or high wages.
With such a big rebuild required, Philippe Clement is fully aware of the obstacles that he has to overcome:
“We know we have less money than our competition because they have more money and they have Champions League money now. So, we need to be more inventive, the recruitment needs to be more inventive.
“If your opponent has more money and can spend more you have to work better. That needs to be the challenge to make things better. We have to find better players for cheaper prices.
“It’s not always the player that costs more who at the end has the highest value.”
Nils Koppen, the man who never sleeps
What is encouraging is that Nils Koppen is doing the hard yards and racking up the air miles looking to get deals done.
In Mexico for the latest TransferRoom conference, he has reportedly met the clubs and agents of both Damian Garcia and Albion Rrahmani as he looks to build a squad capable of winning the Scottish Premiership title.
Montano always seemed like a nice to have rather than a must have type of player.
Rangers already have plenty of box-to-box midfielders and the priority has to be someone like Damian Garcia – a defensive midfielder to replace John Lundstram and Ryan Jack.
It’s going to be a long summer.
