New Rangers manager Danny Rohl would no doubt love to make new signings in the January transfer window, but will he get his wish?
Rohl bullish ahead of Kilmarnock clash
It hasn’t been a happy start to life at Ibrox for Rohl, whose Gers side lost 3-0 away to Brann in the Europa League on Thursday night, in his first game in charge.
Despite this, the German is still in positive spirits heading into Sunday’s crucial Scottish Premiership clash at home to Kilmarnock, telling reporters that there is plenty of “potential” in his team.
“I see a lot of potential, what we have to improve. I think this is very important to understand, and this is what I told my players as well. I want to see that every individual player tried everything to make this step forward, and this is my job. I took this job over to develop them and improve them, and we have to do it as individuals but also as a group, and there are a lot of things we can do.
“I think it’s hard work what we have to do, when I look to the next opponent we will have again a big team, but it’s about the turnaround, and for me the next game is the important one, and this is now on Sunday. As I said at the beginning, for me at the moment to have a long-term view makes no sense.
“We have games every three days and that means we have to win, and for this I will help my players, my group, my coaches, and then we go forward.”
Rohl will want to bring in players to suit his style of play as soon as possible, and previous reports have suggested Cavenagh will back Rangers with money to spend in the winter window.
Rangers January transfer kitty revealed
According to Football Insider‘s Pete O’Rourke, that is not the case. He claims Rohl is unlikely to have money to spend at Rangers in January due to the backing that 49ers Enterprises gave Russell Martin in the summer, despite the fact 49ers Enterprises would “love” to splash out.
“The 49ers group at Rangers would love to back Danny Rohl, but they did have a big summer. Let’s not forget about that. They had a £20million net spend and brought in a number of new signings for Russell Martin and a lot of them failed to impress.
“So I don’t think there’s a lot of money left in the transfer coffers for Danny Rohl. And I’m sure he’s well aware of that. I don’t think he’d be expecting huge transfer funds to be made available for him January.”
This won’t be music to the ears of Rangers supporters, who will be desperate to see Rohl backed as much as possible early in his reign. That said, it is important that the Gers don’t spend recklessly, especially while Kevin Thelwell is at the helm, given the former Everton chief has shown himself to be poor in terms of recruitment.
It is up to the current players to improve dramatically, rather than the manager simply always taking the blame, and their new boss will hopefully get far more out of them than Martin did.