Philippe Clement has confirmed Rangers are not going to replace Ridvan Yilmaz because the club can’t afford to, after admitting the resources aren’t there to bring in another left back.

Rangers lost Yilmaz medium-to-long term after the Turk sustained a nasty injury against Kyiv midweek, but Clement confirmed there will be no incoming replacement and Rangers will rely on Robbie Fraser and Jefte to deputise in his absence.

As Ibrox Noise reported earlier, it means Rangers have lost all senior first-picks for the left, with Colombian winger Oscar Cortes ruled out for some considerable time as well, and it doesn’t exactly equip the side too well in that area going forward.

It’s a real problem – Jefte was absolutely horrendous in preseason at left back, while Robbie Fraser is an untested kid who only made some cameos.

Rangers and Clement knew fine well that Ridvan was vulnerable to this happening again, and opted to sign a rookie deputy with no experience of a serious level in football as the replacement if it did.

Fraser is an honest kid and appears to have some talent but is he exactly ready to be thrown into the fire at the level of Rangers?

We suppose the only way to know is to try, but it weakens Rangers to lose Ridvan and have no finances at all to replace him.

It’s just yet another bad luck story to befall Rangers, in conjunction with bad planning and poor management.

No one could know Ridvan was going to get injured again, and yet it didn’t take Mystic Meg to know it was a certainty.