Rangers have made great strides since Steven Gerrard was handed the reigns at Ibrox.
Rangers chairman Dave King criticised the transfer business conducted by Pedro Caixinha in the summer of 2017, when speaking at the club’s AGM today, suggesting that the players brought in by the Portuguese were not fit for business, as quoted by the Express.
Caixinha was sacked in October last year, after the Gers made a hopeless start to their campaign, and Graeme Murty was appointed as caretaker boss.
Steven Gerrard was then handed the reigns at Ibrox in the summer of 2018, and Rangers finally seem to be making some real progress.
The Glasgow giants currently sit in second spot in the Scottish Premiership table, just two points adrift of Celtic, and they are still in with a shout of qualifying for the knock-out stages of the Europa League – a far cry from their predicament when Caixinha left Ibrox.
King spoke at today’s AGM, and highlighted how the Portuguese’s transfer business was not fit for purpose, as quoted by the Express:
“We started last season with a new manager, a new coaching staff, and a raft of new players including the flagship signing of a European Championship-winning centre-back. The great disappointment is that our investment at the start of last season proved to be not fit for purpose. We embarrassingly lost our Europa League first-round qualifier to a team with an extremely modest European pedigree (Progres Niederkorn).”
Rangers can actually jump to the top of the table with a win over Hearts on Sunday, as Celtic are in cup final action, and that would represent quite the turnaround from this time last year.
Caixinha obviously tried his best, but he was never the man to take Rangers forward into a new era of success.
Steven Gerrard is proving that it is possible to just that, however, following a whole host of impressive summer signings.
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