Give me cash to build team to mount a title challenge

that we can do it but it’s not a question of trying to stop Celtic. For us, it’s about getting that mentality and desire and that will to win.

“I am happy for us to be compared against Celtic. We can challenge Celtic next season, if we bring in these players then we can challenge.

“I’m not going to say the things that the fans want to hear, I only say things that I feel and that I’m confident about saying. I want to be realistic, if we get in the right core of players then things will be different for sure.

“We can compete and to compete at this club is to compete to win. It’s about bringing in players who are at international level, with international experience. Players which this club is used to having in the recent past. That is what we are bringing next season.

“We also have Scottish players in our core, if they are coming for the first time then they don’t know what Rangers is about.”

Rodgers has spoken about the possibility of smashing Celtic’s transfer record and spending more than £6million on a single player as he looks to improve his arsenal this summer.

The deals for Michael O’Halloran and Joe Garner at £500,000 and £1.8million respectively were the biggest outlays of Mark Warburton’s Gers tenure.

But Caixinha is content with the resources he will have at his disposal ahead of a crucial summer on and off the park at Ibrox.

He said: “He (Warburton) spent £2million which is far from the £6million which you’ve said. It’s about producing a core list to the board and saying that this is going to be my core team.

“Everything will move around that. Everything is organised according to the realistic situation at the club. I know how far I can go and that’s what I am doing.

“It’s got nothing to do with numbers and I’m not going to tell you. I don’t care if it’s less or more than my predecessor. Next season will be different, It’s not about names or players.”

Caixinha will start informing his players next week who he wishes to work with going forward and who will be allowed to leave Ibrox.

The majority of the Gers squad have long-term contracts but Caixinha has no fears about unwanted stars digging their heels in and refusing to move on this summer.

He said: “I am already working on it, since a long time, since the first time we came in. I said we were assessing, but assessing is working at the same time.

“We would need to get one sort of agreement. Do you think that you are going to work with someone who doesn’t want to work with you that things are going to be nice or going to be the right way? I don’t think so. It is a question of principles and values.

“Nobody said that you need to pay the players to go. Nobody said also that you need to pay players to come in. We need to spend money now for sure, but I cannot tell you how much we are going to spend with the players with the players that are moving or with the players that are coming in.”