Russell Martin has no option but to clear the decks as stench of failure hangs heavy over Rangers

There is nowhere to hide anymore. It is time for these players, some of whom manager after manager.

Russell Martin's epic press conference After the game after a joke in a 1-1 draw at Motherwell, she certainly informed them.

Rangers did not reach Rangers their first match of the League season. None of the old guard can be considered safe. Not Nicolas Raskin. Not Mohamed Diomande. Not even Jack Butland.

Rangers must get rid of the loser mentality, the mental weakness, which has kept them in the Goldrums for too long. The only realistic way to achieve that is to erase the decks and to place those who cannot be sold in the stiffness.

Lord knows how sports director Kevin Thelwell will do it, but he has to start catching up, doing what he can do to get deals for as many deals as possible and to raise money for even more new faces.

There is also nowhere to hide from Martin. Three games in or not, he has important questions to answer – start with the first stage of Tuesday evening of the Champions League Third Qualification Round Tie with Viktoria Plzen.

After the Gobbledygook by Michael Beale and Philippe Clement, it was refreshing to hear him call a kick after the Fir Park chaos. He shouted the mentality of the team and accused some players of going into self-preservation mode to be provided and surpassed by opposition on a fraction of their wages.

There has also been talk of resistance to some small rules that he has tried to establish with regard to culture and behavior.

He stopped the fact that there will be major changes against PLZEN. But where does it leave him when he filters the team and the performance and then chooses more or less the same guys? No matter how welcome his straight talking was, he brought himself into a difficult position here.

Martin works with these players he has chosen for criticism for weeks. He chose them. So far, his teams have been an incoherent mess and he has to do something about it.

It remains a small miracle that they received through the Panathinaikos stropdas, but Saturday's performance offered a dose of dose in a front hammer style.

An enormous amount of focus on Martin's approach is around its desired style. How he wants his team to look like on time. That's fine. However, the way it looks now is terrifying.

By wrapping the ball in their own box, she becomes unnecessary effort. There are really doubts about whether the players are capable of this.

Motherwell did almost the same among their new boss Jens Berthel Askou, but was really successful, especially the second half. They cut through Rangers like a hot knife through butter. The visiting defense was static, on the part of simple steps through the middle. The midfield was posted too often.

The possession was constantly emerged. The forward line looked just as blunt as during the time of Clement. Where was the width? And that is before we start with individuals who are played from position, something for which Martin is fully responsible.

Max Aarons cannot play left back. A new one must be signed, he has to go to the right and captain James Tavernier, who opened the score in Fir Park with a header, must be second choice in that position.

Kieran Dowell was excess for the required previous term and shipped on loan to Birmingham, who seemed to buy him permanently. What he is doing right now is everyone's gamble. Why he got 90 minutes in Motherwell after a tasteless display is another puzzle.

Dowell is not going to make it to Rangers, but Martin promoted him to his 'Senior Leadership Group' and has made him a fixed value. Danilo is not going to make it either. There have been injury problems with Cyriel Dessers and Hamza Igamane, but it is clear that something important must be done with the Centrum-Forward position.

A buyer must be found for Igamane or Dessers – or both – and the money spent on recruiting a striker that can be dependent.

Igamane has something interesting about him, but you suspect that he is looking for a new challenge. He is raw and has no conventional football background. Can he take on the information, open up for coaching, as the new manager wants? If someone in France offers decent money, this must be taken.

Oliver Antman is on the way of Go to Go to Go evening Eagles and Mikey Moore was in the stand in the weekend pending international permission after his move from Tottenham. They have the potential to improve things at the front, but the midfield also forms as a headache.

The arrival in the summer Thelo Aasgaard will soon be fit. He will take on the left -sided role of midfield three. Where that leaves, Raskin can still be seen. At the moment you would venture that it is from the team.

He would probably prefer to play in the No. 6 position, but that is the role of Joe Rothwell and he is Martin's husband. It all creates a difficult situation with the Belgian, one that can best be solved with a transfer if someone is willing to pony.

The same applies to Diomande. The Ivorian has real power, but has become a frustrating character. It is difficult not to consider him as one of the most important switching off, switching traders to whom Martin referred. He did well to last 63 minutes before he was replaced by Lyall Cameron. Nobody was in the building before Martin is indispensable.

Everyone saw the late equalizer of Emmanuel Longelo coming. Tom Sparrow should have killed it over time.

Talking about terrible mentities at Ibrox should not be a shock. Barry Ferguson seemed ready to implode after a home loss for Hibs. Billy Dodds continued and stated that only 30 percent of the play team looked at the task.

Martin clearly clocked that and has to repair it, but he also has to look inside. Rangers fans were angry with Fir Park. They will not give him an endless time to shape his vision.

Not if things are so jaws drying badly as this.

Motherwell (4-3-1-2): Ward 8; Koutroumbis 7, McGinn 7, Gordon 7 (O'Donnell 71), LONGELGO 9; Watt 7, Slattery 8 (Sparrow 90), Fadinger 7; Only 8 (Balmer 90); Maswanhise 7, Stamatelopolous 6 (said 79).

Booked: Watt.

Manager: Jens Berthel Askou 9.

Rangers (4-3-3): Butland 7; Tavernier 5, Djiga 6, Souttar 6, Aarons 4; Rothwell 4 (Bajrami 73), Diomande 3 (Cameron 63), Raskin 4 (Barron 73); Dowell 3, Danilo 3 (Dessers 63), Gassama 5 (Cortes 82).

Booked: Cameron, Dowell, Aarons, Tavernier.

Manager: Russell Martin 3.

Referee: Steven McLean.

Presence: 10,616.

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