For a very long time now I have spoken about the urgent need for Rangers to restructure the club, both on the pitch and off the pitch.

Years of what seems like - certainly from the outside looking in - reckless spending has now caught up with Rangers. It’s never been about not spending money, it’s been that when we have spent it we have not got value for it. I’d cite training ground with spiralling costs, a series of court cases, a club wage bill that is far too high, transfer spending with very little to show for it and decisions to hand the keys to folk ill-equipped to handle that responsibility. All this has now cost Rangers.

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Off the pitch, there are still questions to be answered. The much-publicised deficit of just over £10million is being eaten into and that was always  going to be a difficult process.

High profile mistakes mean this board have lost the trust of many and that will take some recovering. Battening down the hatches and simply seeing it through seems almost the only option now. 

On the park is where it really matters, however. A bloated squad with too many of the players on enhanced wages with very little return value. Rangers have now introduced a new structure to ensure this doesn’t happen again. The problem with that is when these players are told they are surplus to requirements and no clubs are willing to pick them up because of the inflated wages we are paying them. 

We are now seeing this with Ianis Hagi, Todd Cantwell, Rabbi Matondo, Ben Davies - all of whom Rangers would want to move on. That’s over £100,000 of wages - or more than £5million a season - just sitting wasting away with little or no return. Philippe Clement can put that to better use.

Several top earners have already left, like Borna Barisic, John Lundstram, Sam Lammers, Connor Goldson, and Kemar Roofe. Others such as Jon McLaughlin, Ryan Jack, Robby McCrorie and Jose Cifuentes have also moved on. That’s quite a saving over the course of the season. If you can do deals for the four previously mentioned above then all of sudden the wage and squad restructure is looking a lot healthier. Not to mention Alex Lowry and Adam Devine, who are too good to play B Team football and may look to leave on loan.

That would represent a huge turnover in players out the door. I believe there is still work to undertake. 

So, on paper, things will look a lot better. Rangers will have that structure and over £10m a year of wages will have walked out the door. 

However a ‘small’ issue with that is Rangers already lack quality, they urgently need three or four starters in during the next week and getting that right may not be possible. But it’s an absolute necessity. All at a price and within a new wage structure beneficial to the club. 

When Goldson and Sam Lammers left, Robin Pröpper and Vasclav Cerny arrived pretty quickly. Rangers supporters will have to hope that will be the case should they move on those aforementioned. 

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When you have such a turnover it was never going to be one window job - it was never going to be all done in one season. A restructuring of this magnitude was always going to be extremely difficult but it was absolutely necessary. 

Rangers have a little over a week to try and find homes for players away from the club and at the same time to bring in those that are needed to make this club competitive this season. 

This has to be the last summer this magnitude of turnover is required. This reset, this restructuring has been necessary and currently we are in the eye of that storm. 

Over the next week we need to emerge from that storm in a healthy condition and at least give the manager a fighting chance.