No football club paralysed by fear over the impact of decision-making can progress. Rangers’ leadership team are permanently scared; of getting it wrong, of antagonising supporters, of their own shadows. So little of what emerges from Ibrox feels decisive.
Had Rangers believed more than a fortnight ago that Danny Röhl was the man to remove them from on-field doldrums, they should displayed the courage of their convictions. Röhl could have been in situ within 24 hours of Russell Martin’s departure.
Rangers have been long-time admirers of the 36-year-old German, who was available, and could have sold his arrival as something that should have happened when they instead turned to Martin after a recruitment drive that rumbled on for months.
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