Why Rangers players are feeling threatened

With Rangers’ January business hitting serious territory, it is evident this club is finally taking a look at itself and trying to build a Rangers we all recognise.

QPR’s Sean Goss has already impressed, while former Brighton winger Jamie Murphy was a coveted and important arrival. Greg Docherty should be next on the agenda and Rangers are negotiating over the price (reportedly now at £750K).

However, with yet another rebuild comes the inevitability of moving on surplus, and for both Eduardo Herrera and Niko Kranjcar to publicly big themselves up as being happy at Ibrox and believing they have a role to play at the club shows how threatened both are by the new arrivals.

However, they are far from alone. The amount of chafe that remains on the books in Govan is borderline frightening, and it is nearly impossible that even half of it can be cast away before February 1st.

Jordan Rossiter, Herrera, Kranjcar, Bruno Alves, Dalcio, Lee Hodson, Joe Dodoo, and many others are taking up thousands of pounds a week. Weekly figures suggest those seven alone cost the coffers around £80,000 and that is money Rangers cannot afford to waste.

It is pretty obvious why Rangers are keen to sell Herrera, for example, and even more obvious why he is trying to remain. The guy is on a healthy salary and he will not get that elsewhere. Kranjcar too is hardly on a low income and nowhere will he come close to matching it. And Rossiter, sadly, we have given up on. We love the guy, we do, and we would love him to be fit, but over 18 months on the £10K a week man is still nowhere near the first team and it is time to cut losses and move on – which is probably a major reason Rangers are looking at Hamilton’s star man.

In short, Rangers have a glut of dead wood. Again. From Warburton’s Wasters to Pedro’s Profligals, Rangers just keep signing trash that does not work out and has to be shed.

And it is no coincidence that at least three of them have recently talked (or tweeted) themselves up as having a role to play.

Rangers are making changes this month. And some players are threatened by that. And so they should be.

The ruthlessness with which we got rid of Pena and Nemane is a lesson that those who do not deserve to be at Ibrox are out as soon as we get a chance.