'No Question' - Michael Stewart issues damning Rangers claim after Clement transfers

Rangers don’t look like they had a plan in the transfer window and have managed to weaken the side from last term, according to Michael Stewart.

The pundit told Premier Sports’ Scottish Football Social Club on 2 September there was “no question” the squad is now worse than the one that fell short last season after a “lack of strategy” in the market this summer.

Celtic blew the Light Blues away 3-0 at Parkhead over the weekend to expose Philippe Clement’s half-finished transfer business after a financially frustrating window.

Stewart said (14m 10s): “There’s no question that Rangers are a weaker squad then they were last season but I go back to the point that there does certainly feel like there’s a lack of strategy in terms of where do they need to strengthen.

“It just seems a little bit ad-hoc and scattergun.”

Rangers lose to Celtic again after Philippe Clement transfer window

Clement may be due some criticism for how he prepared his side for the trip across Glasgow at the weekend, and comments after the game that suggested he didn’t appreciate the significance of the defeat.

But having been stuck having to sell to buy throughout the summer while the club strained to offload Michael Beale purchases there is plenty the Belgian is not responsible for.

What looks like a perfect storm at Ibrox has seemingly undone all the good work Clement had produced in his early months in Scotland.

It was widely accepted that the squad wasn’t good enough after the title race was conceded last term, and the incoming summer haul is a work in progress at best.

Connor Barron has impressed so far but was overwhelmed at Celtic, while Vaclav Cerny’s early flashes have quickly dried up and Robin Propper is already looking just as calamitous and injury-prone as every other centre-back in recent seasons.

The Deadline Day captures of Neraysho Kasanwirjo and Nedim Bajrami may prove to be good ones, and Hamza Igamane finally showed some positive signs in his first minutes at Parkhead.

But it is far from obvious that what has come in is of a higher quality than what has left, and this season is already looking like a slog unless something drastic changes quickly.

In other Rangers news, Light Blues footage has been blasted as “absolutely unacceptable” after the defeat to Celtic.

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