Rangers are set to lose Ridvan Yilmaz yet again, after it was confirmed his injury could be as bad as feared if not worse, and the Turkish international could miss more than three months.

This is an unmitigated disaster for Rangers with only Jefte and Robbie Fraser as options at LB, unless Philippe Clement once again decides to waste Dujon Sterling there, who can’t even play that role.

Either way, Ridvan is set to miss quite a lot of matches, and it seriously brings into question his Rangers career given it’s the fourth serious injury the boy has had since joining in summer 2022.

Indeed, shockingly, since that arrival two years ago, Ridvan has only managed 52 appearances, which betters fellow crock Tom Lawrence by only 5, and really doesn’t present value for the £6M fee Rangers invested in the former Besiktas star.

Ridvan is a talented player, a very good left back, but it doesn’t matter how good he actually is if Rangers can’t keep him fit.

He loves Rangers, he committed to Rangers, and his home press is obsessed with trying to get him to join Galatasaray among others – there have been so many links with him going home, but he’s confirmed he’s staying, and in the future he wants to test himself in a top European league.

But unfortunately with the way things are going, he’s not going to be fit enough.

Like Ryan Jack, like Kemar Roofe, like so many before him, all the talent in the world but can’t sustain a run of form without being ruled out before long.

We understand the swelling on this latest injury was so bad he couldn’t even be scanned, so the club is waiting for it to calm down before properly assessing, scanning and diagnosing.

He looked in huge distress, and we fear it could go into next year before we see him again.