Why a dramatic policy change at Ibrox must happen before January

It’s time to say enough is enough. There comes a point where we have to concede it isn’t working, and now three years back in the Premiership, this is the point.

Name a single player Rangers have taken on loan from another team who’s actually worked out since 2016.

The closest two we’ve come up with are Jamie Murphy, but he was supposed to be a permanent signing anyway and ended up as a loan trial, and Declan John, who actually did work out truly.

Every single other example has been a complete failure and frankly we’re getting fed up of all the junk players we’re taking on who simply don’t cut it and aren’t ours.

We’ve become a test bed for Arsenal, Liverpool and Tottenham kids who can’t cut it at their clubs and whose managers want seen in the real world. We send Greg Docherty and Jason Holt to Shrewsbury and Fleetwood respectively? Well, that is exactly what Liverpool are using us for, and it stops now.

For us to take a piece of junk like Joe Worrall, a useless never was like Coulibaly and all the rest of them on only for them to underwhelm like Hyndman, Toral, Ball, Zelalem, Oduwa and Vuckic before them has to stop.

We’ve had enough.

We hate seeing our first team filled with other teams’ players. It’s no good.

It’s fine when it’s a truly excellent player, and it works out so well we sign the guy permanently. But that is rare as buttons and all it does otherwise is waste our time, our resources, and cost a Rangers player a place.

Joe Worrall, Lassana Coulibaly, Umar Sadiq, and Ovie Ejaria have been, to varying degrees, a waste of time. Frankly Ryan Kent, a sensational few matches aside, has been complete rubbish as well.

And it’s cost us months of using our own players – Katic, Grezda, Middleton, Rossiter and a tonne of others have had to sit on the bench while a reject from Nottingham Forest played ahead of them.

Call us overly angry if you like, but we’re completely fed up of being used as a lab for developing other clubs’ players.

We’re not naïve. We understand the loan market. That Rangers getting top quality players isn’t cheap or easy, and there’s a chance we could hit on a gem from a Liverpool kid or an Arsenal Academy graduate.

But it’s a lottery – and one we mostly lose.

Time to bite the bullet and stop borrowing other teams’ unwanted players.