Erasing the past?

Many things have become evident this transfer window, such is Rangers’ dramatic overhaul of the summer mess left by Pedro Caixinha.

How such a clown blagged his way into the Ibrox hotseat will never truly be understood, and why so many Rangers supporters remained loyal to his cluelessness is beyond anyone’s thinking.

Rangers’ board invested around £10M in him, and even today there are still some fans who think Eduardo Herrera should be given a chance.

Rarely has a January window been this productive at Ibrox, with a steady flow of players coming in, and the powers-that-be are essentially trying to erase an entire summer window of mistakes.

Credit to the board – they are getting damn well on with it. We have been hypercritical the past year of this board, and were never in favour of them gaining power in the first place; but this January has seen some real quality coming in, highlighted no more so than by the arrival of Jason Cummings.

But for every good player we get, for every piece of dross we get rid of (Carlos, I am looking right at you) it serves as a punctuation dot for the garbage that happened last year.

The atrocious mistake of bringing in a ‘Celtic brother’ as our manager who could not believe his luck getting such a gig. The further error of blindly supporting his comical transfer policy of turning Ibrox into a Dorito. The plain pain of watching these players utterly struggle with the SPL, aided and abetted by a ‘manager’ who ‘knew better’.

We are so glad that the only one who has truly established himself is the one Caixinha did not sign; Alfredo Morelos. Not to mention murmurs that both Ryan Jack and Graham Dorrans were actually pushed through by director Paul Murray rather than management.

Eduardo Herrera, Carlos Pena, Fabio Cardoso, Bruno Alves and Dalcio were complete duds. Daniel Candeias surprised us and while hardly magical, he works hard, has a decent delivery, and certainly does not disgrace the shirt.

But the other five?

We look forward to a future away from the absolute mince the last two permanent managers signed. At least in Warburton’s case guys like Senderos, Barton, Kranjcar and Rossiter were good enough on paper. Problem is football is played on grass, and none were wise signings. But he did bring us Wilson, Tavernier, Bates and Windass, and to varying levels these guys have stepped up this season.

Nevertheless, a tomorrow with Russell Martin, Danny Wilson, David Bates, James Tavernier, Declan John, Lee Wallace, Ryan Jack, potentially Greg Docherty, Ross McCrorie, Graham Dorrans, Sean Goss, Jamie Murphy, Michael O’Halloran, Josh Windass, Candeias, Jason Cummings, Alfredo Morelos etc really does inspire far more than the rubbish we signed last summer.

While it maybe still is not quite at the level of Rangers of yesteryear, it is on a path more akin to one.

Keep it up.