Philippe Clement said a number of stupid things during his fatal saying as Rangers manager.
A remarkable outing came last summer when he argued on the same day that there was 'no gap' between the Ibrox club and champions Celtic, the Belgian Waffler stated that Jack Butland should not leave 'for a prize'.
How unhappy does that all seem like. Nottingham Forest had of course seen an offer of £ 5 million for the former English international during the previous winter window.
There was certainly room to include a sort of auction for the services of the goalkeeper, forces someone to pay that little more, but no. No deal.
As Rangers have not been, despite walking on AD Infinitum about models for player trade, they prefer to give the shutters down and hold on to their wares until they are past their date of sale. Very often, because of the case studies of Alfredo Morelos, Ryan Kent, Borna Barisic, John Lundstram and others, until there is no possibility to get transfer costs for them.
In the current form, with a different horrible blooper on his record after the weekend, you would have trouble giving Butland away now. Rangers look stuck with a man on hefty wages that looks like he can't be trusted for the next term. The same applies to almost the entire defense that performed so horribly in a completely insane, disorderly, chaotic 4-3 victory in Dundee on Saturday evening.
However, there is a lesson to learn from all this, where Nico Raskin has more eyes on him than ever thanks to a standing ovation during Belgium's Nations League victory on Ukraine last midweek and produces an excellent representation in Rangers' First-Legumpph about Fenerbahce in the last 16 of the Europa-Competition.
There can be no foolishness about Rangers players who have made 'no sale' signs on them for longer. As illustrated by a display in Dens Park that had no form of discipline or order or dominance, there is not a single player in this team that can be called indispensable. Not one.
Raskin has made one or two contributions. He played a pass that replaced Tom Lawrence to make it 3-3. But he was not there about the piece. The visiting midfield did not get a grip on the meeting at all.
In reality there was no period in the entire 90 minutes where both parties could have claimed that they had things under control.
It was just hectic, from start to finish, basketball game chaos from start to finish. And for people like Gretar Steinsson of 49ers Enterprises, part of the American consortium that prepares to take over at Rangers, it should convince him that nothing can be off the table when it comes to giving this squadron the serious restructuring it requires.
There is an interest in Raskin. If possible, magic in a good, concrete offer, it must be taken. With the Belgian 24 years old and with two years to pass on his contract, Rangers must be in an affordable position to negotiate and get as much as possible.
Yes, Raskin can run the show against Celtic and in Europe on its day. In recent weeks, however, he was also part of a Rangers-Middenveld that is completely stamped at home by losing Motherwell and unable to exert a serious influence on a match against Dundee threatened by relegation. Not long ago he couldn't even get to the team.
Playing for Belgium and preparing for athletic Bilbao in a European quarterfinals, however, places him straight in the shop window. And Rangers must embrace that. If you are a selling club, you have to strike while the iron is hot and applies if the stock of a player is high.
Butland is proof. Just like so many others. Take a look at that terrible rearguard. James Tavernier should have disappeared for a long time. His time was gone last summer. There was an interest in him from Qatar and Turkey, but it was not extradited or it was not encouraged.
Ridvan Yilmaz was on the other flank in Dens Park. He looked a solid signature when he arrived from Besiktas in 2022 as a 21-year-old for £ 3.4 million. He had been to the Turkish Euro 2020 team. Since then, his international career has been thrown away and nowadays he looks like a man who enters water. It is such a disappointment.
Nevertheless, it was said that Besiktas was willing to return Rangers their money last summer via a loan costs and then a clause for the obligation to buy buy. Clement, however, also peeped that.
The fact that Leon Balogun is back in the team approaching 37 was released by the club in 2022, and part of a back three with Dujon Sterling, who is never a center-back in a month of Sunday, says so much about how terrible recruitment has been.
Success in the UEFA competition, in which the ability to play as an incurring side is supplemented with lower expectation levels, has appropriate many of the players and their posture problems.
But that is not what the club needs. They require consistent artists who can work out victories week after week, dealing with the uninhibited uniqueness of Scottish premiership and exert pressure on Celtic at the top of the table. This collection of characters is many things, but it has not been made.
The extreme chaos of the game at Dens, despite the fact that it ended with three points, appeared so much of their weaknesses in Technicolor. Two after 19 minutes to efforts by Simon Murray and Joe Shaughnessy and absolutely everywhere in the store, they came back in just before the break through a Shaughnessy own goal.
And even when Scott Tiffoney made it 3-1, Tavernier and replacement Lawrence founded an exciting final by recovering parity. Then a crazy encounter went all the way Tonto.
Murray hit the inside of Butland's left post when they were added in time, and a little later Cyriel Dessers took a final winner with his 12th attempt on Doel in what had been another annoyed display so far.
Dessers could have been sold last summer or in the winter. There was an offer of £ 5 million from MLS Side Atlanta United in August and links with Serie A in January. He will certainly be on the road when the new broom inland shipping.
What Rangers may get for him at the age of 30 is the gamble. Raskin, however, is a man at a good age who, in the right circumstances and with the right bidder, could have a great fee.
This summer, however, should certainly not be at Ibrox last summer. Every player must have his prize. And in the case of many of them, even if that premium compensation cannot be agreed, deals of meaningful value would still have to be done instead of bumping five squadron members of the first team for £ 810,000 all-in to be shot alone.
The time of Barry Ferguson as an interim manager has been a riot of absurd entertaining games and there is much more adventure on the horizon. However, come in mid -May, when it is all over, the years and years of endless crazy crazy and outside the park have to stop.
Dundee (4-3-3): Carson 7; Mcghee 5, Shaughnessy 5, Donnelly 4, Larkeche 5; Mulligan 8, Sylla 6, Robertson 8 (Garza 65); Adewumi 7, Murray 8 (Reilly 92), Tiffoney 7.
Booked: Sylla.
Manager: Tony Docherty 5.
Rangers (3-5-2): Butland 4; Sterling 5, Balogun 5 (Hagi 46), Souttar 5; Tavernier 5, Barron 5 (Rice 46), Diomande 4 (Lawrence 74), Raskin 6, Yilmaz 5 (Jefte 61); Igamane 6 (Danilo 64), Dessers 7.
Booked: Raskin, Lawrence.
Manager: Barry Ferguson 5.
Referee: David Dickinson.
Presence: 8,710.
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