If there is one player (only one) at Ibrox who has nowhere near lived up to his price tag it’s former Nordsjælland midfielder Mohamed Diomande whose former Danish employers’ laughter on the way to the bank can still be heard today.

The Ivorian/Ghanian international set Philippe Clement and Nils Koppen’s Rangers back £4.5M and it became abundantly clear inside a few weeks that Rangers had been mugged.

Sure, back in those days when most Rangers fans trusted the manager, they saw the players through rose-tinted glasses and a few actually praised Diomande as outstanding. Ibrox Noise was one of the few groups who was distinctly unimpressed.

The-now 23-year-old has been very similar to Tom Lawrence – having no impression on matches whatsoever, and only ever shining a bit more in some cup games, curiously. Unlike Lawrence though he doesn’t even score goals, managing just 3 in his 38 appearances so far.

Some call him a waste of a shirt, an empty top, and it’s hard to disagree there.

Despite being a central midfielder, Diomande offers very little in the way of quality, composure, power, strength, vision or pace, and for his £4.5M transfer fee Rangers fans could have expected a lot more.

And yes, fans nowadays have changed their minds completely on the Ivory Coast man, his offering so little has clearly changed supporters’ minds.

Unfortunately, this kind of average player has been Clement and Koppen’s target – they talk about overhauling the trade model but sign distinctly modest players – remember how Clement confirmed he’d have kept Fabio Silva permanently but he was too expensive. He was another one who was abysmal in the Scottish game.

Like Malik Tillman, it doesn’t matter if they’re tearing up LaLiga, or Holland in their lives after Rangers, their performance at our club is what did matter to us, and for both of them, it’s been substandard.

Many players simply do not suit the Scottish Premiership, or the pressure of Rangers.

Silva, Tillman and now Diomande are three such, the Ivorian being a regular under this boss but rarely having justified his selection.

Ultimately this kind of player is what Rangers’ XI is filled with these days – guys who could as easily be turning out for Hearts, Aberdeen and Dundee Utd, not Rangers.

This is quite different to cherry-picking the best FROM clubs like these – Walter and Eck to name but two used to do that, and ended up with a great blend of foreign quality and a Scottish core grit and hard work.

Now we have a bunch of mercenaries, a group of players who are at the level of Dio, of Raskin, of Jefte, of Tavernier – guys who don’t even come close to Barry, to Thomo, to Davo, to Numan, to Hutton – and we’re having to watch our managers sign this dross every window.

But Diomande unfortunately is another one whose former employer saw us coming – Hearts could easily have signed him for £250,000, but when Rangers came along, the price multiplied by 20.

But at least Jefte’s doubled in value…