Rangers’ injury crises are back after manager Philippe Clement confirmed Ridvan Yilmaz is out for around 6 weeks (we believe it could be 3 months+ but either way it’s a long time), while Scott Wright is now out injured too, and Leon Balogun remains ‘a doubt’ at best.

Added to Hamza Igamane and Clinton Nsiala not being ready, Oscar Cortes being out long term, Todd Cantwell and Ianis Hagi being frozen out, Nico Raskin being out, and Danilo not being given minutes, and Rangers are right back to mid-last season and yet another injury/unavailability crisis

That’s Ridvan, Wright, Balogun, Igamane, Nsiala, Cortes, Cantwell, Hagi, Raskin and Danilo who seem to either be injured, unavailable or not being used and it means Rangers, under Philippe Clement, are in exactly the same injury/unavailability position they were under Giovanni, under Michael Beale, and under Clement when he arrived.

That’s 10 players either injured, frozen out or just being overlooked, which leaves Clement in a position that he isn’t exactly getting the big fat squad he was suggested was his preference.

It’s not quite a selection shambles. None of the players, aside Ridvan and Cortes, would be a first pick under this manager, for right or wrong, so it doesn’t strictly hurt options for the starting XI as much as it could.

But the loss of Ridvan is a big deal, and Cortes’ injury means Rangers don’t have a left winger at all at the moment, with a saturation of righties. We thought Jefte was the answer there but he was abysmal at Hampden well before his early bath.

Rangers, fundamentally, have lost the entire left side of the team, with no convincing winger there and not a single good LB to speak of.

Added to James Tavernier’s horrendous form on the other side, and the team really doesn’t have its troubles to seek right now.