Could Jason Cummings be part of something special?

With the confirmed signatures of Jamie Murphy and Sean Goss (so far), and strong speculation claiming Ibrox chiefs are looking at Devante Cole, Greg Docherty and Jason Cummings, it is becoming more clear the direction Rangers may be taking.

While Goss is only a six-month loan (QPR Director of Football Les Ferdinand said this deal will not become permanent) the other four secured and posited signings do point to the strategy generally being pursued by Mark Allen and Graeme Murty.

While ex-manager Mark Warburton simply hoovered up unwanted excess from league one clubs in England, unwanted garbage from some EPL teams like Arsenal and Spurs, and players he knew from Burnley, Brentford and Watford, his successor brought in every Hispanic player he knew of.

Neither of these strategies were right for our club.

The last time a strategy worked was when Walter Smith brought in good young Scottish players (Kevin Thomson, Steven Whittaker, Steven Naismith) and some reliable experienced vets (Ugo Ehiogu (RIP) and David Weir) and blended them to create a strong, fighting and able team which clearly became the best in Scotland.

There are echoes of this in the current direction. The young players like Goss, and potentially Cole, Cummings and Docherty are being flanked with older campaigners like Murphy and, should the rumours (resurfacing again) be true, Naismith.

It is a very similar type of process to the last one which worked in Govan, and while Murty has a long way to go to even tie Walter’s shoelaces, the overall plan is mirroring the old master’s.

Dare we say it, things are flirting with being kind of exciting. Only a week ago we were a little unclear on where the transfer window was taking us, and felt the squad was a little imbalanced. Naturally, that remains the case.

But in three or four months a team filled with Wilson, Bates, Tavernier, John, Dorrans, McCrorie, Jack, Goss, Docherty, Dorrans, Murphy, O’Halloran, Morelos, Cummings, Naismith, Cole et al is actually something to work with.

It does lack a ‘Barry Ferguson’ (unless Jordan Rossiter can hold down fitness) – every team needs its Barry, its Scott Brown, its Steven Gerrard – its leader. Rangers do not have a dictator anywhere in the team and we do not even know who we would look to for that.

But the general player skeleton is looking a little more believable. There is of course a ways to go before we can be convinced we have anything like a Rangers back that we can trust, but right now, we are happy with many of the names we are being linked to and, truthfully, if you had asked us two months ago to choose between Cummings and Moult, it would have been Cummings.

Let us hope these links come to fruition.