There’s little doubt Rangers have done a pretty good job so far of shifting some of the dead wood.

The club has waved goodbye to 7 of our former players in Jon McLaughlin, Robby McCrorie, Kieran Wright, Borna Barisic, Ryan Jack, John Lundstram and Kemar Roofe, saving quite a few quid in wages in the process, while Abdallah Sima also returned to Brighton.

Everyone was relieved Fabio Silva packed his bags back to Molineux.

That’s 9 exits, and if current information is completely accurate, James Tavernier, Connor Goldson, Scott Wright, Todd Cantwell and Ianis Hagi will join them fairly soon, bringing it potentially up to 14.

Ibrox Noise predicted this kind of number, to the usual scepticism, but manager Philippe Clement promised a massive overhaul, the end of an era. So far we are sort of getting it, but when fans saw the starting team v Man Utd, it still felt like a lot of the same old.

And played like it too.

Which means a bunch of things for now that we won’t get into, but it’s evident to any eyes willing to see that we have clearly shipped out a lot of players and are planning to get more on their way too.

There are changes happening – the problem is that 9 exits have earned us a grand total of barely £300,000 – just one sale in Robby McCrorie so far is all the revenue generated in Rangers’ window thus far.

We can’t do much with that.

Consequently it’s abundantly clear Rangers are going to have a tough season next campaign – the incoming players just aren’t cutting it yet, and the higher level we need is just beyond our finances right now.

In less than two weeks we take a patchwork Rangers to Tynecastle and we’re going to struggle with the players we have – we’ll certainly struggle a lot worse in the Champions League third round.

And no, to any sensible Rangers fan reading this, this is not ‘a tim’ bumping his or her gums, this is just calling it as it is.

Without more additions of players who cut the mustard, it’ll be a tough old campaign.

One half of the overhaul is clearly working – we are shipping out many players as promised. But without quality replacing them yet, the impact of the overhaul can only be so much.

Clement wasn’t supported half as much financially at Monaco as his successor was, but he still got £35M or so. At Ibrox this summer the spending has been £9M (half of that was on Dio) give or take.

It was £35M he got at Brugge. For all his faults, and he has many, many issues, there’s not a lot he can do with £9M in this climate.

A defender or two might help though…