Someone has to pay for Ibrox transfer lunacy

SOMEONE high up the chain at Rangers really needs to tell the truth about what is going on in there.

Signing seven players and failing to start a single one of them in your first Champions League home game of the season is beyond bonkers. Frankly, it’s a sackable offence. The only debatable issue is: for whom? And for how many?

Giovanni van Bronckhorst is on his way out of Govan sooner rather than later, no matter what. However, if he really did sign off on all those new recruits as manager, he should be given his P45 right now rather than carrying on the agony.

His admission after the 3-0 home loss to Napoli that he based his team selection on what he sees in training should have Ibrox fans quivering over what fresh horror lies ahead. What hope is there if the guys brought in at some cost to strengthen the squad have already been deemed unsuitable for the main games of the campaign?

Of course, it is no surprise that concerned observers are beginning to float the idea that Van Bronckhorst (above) may not be signing these guys at all. If he accepted Aaron Ramsey and Amad Diallo in January, it is easy to form the opinion he’ll accept almost anything.

Is leaving the latest arrivals out some act of rebellion? Maybe so. It is hard to believe that committing £5million to a 21-year-old Turkish internationalist, Super Lig winner and Champions League player in Ridvan Yilmaz and then refusing to give him a sniff of a game is based on cold logic alone.

Oh, what questions there would be to ask lesser-spotted sporting director Ross Wilson should he ever rediscover the love of the limelight evident when patting himself on the back for signing Ramsey or posing for pics at PSV.

The first would be a rhetorical one. What happens when you take a team that wasn’t good enough to win the league last term, sell off Calvin Bassey and Joe Aribo and resort to plodding away with what’s left?

Indeed, the second might be looked upon as somewhat rhetorical, too. Isn’t it time to look for opportunities elsewhere, old chap?