Boyd reckons it’ll take six or seven good signings for the new Ibrox owners to get it right this summer
Kris Boyd reckons Rangers desperately need half-a-dozen spot-on summer signings and can’t afford to waste a cent of the 49ers cash.
The Ibrox club will end the season trophyless and negotiations are advanced with American investors as they seek an upturn in fortunes.
Rangers fans are waiting to see the extent of the financial injection made into their club and the plans.
But Boyd says whatever is invested, it can’t be squandered on bad buys and simply must be used shrewdly to give the squad a much-needed boost of quality.
He said: “I don’t know how close the takeover is to happening, I don’t know the impact that will have. I know everybody’s excited about it, but to what level of finances will the new owners put in? We don’t know.
“I think every Rangers fan can sit there and look at what the 49ers have got and what they’ve got elsewhere and everything, but that doesn’t guarantee that you’re going to spend that at Rangers.
“So there’s obviously been a lot of change behind the scenes, but recruitment needs to be spot on in the summer.
“Usually in seasons gone by, you can give or take one or two and you’ll not get every one right. But it’s been the opposite with Rangers.
“There’s been more wrong than there’s been right and it can’t continue.
“Any football club or any manager will tell you that the recruitment is key and this summer more than ever for Rangers it’s got to be spot on and you can’t afford any mistakes, you can’t afford any project players.
“Rangers need to get I would say at least six or seven first-team starters that’s going to come in and make a difference and change the mindset in terms of thinking that you’re just going to turn up and win games.
“You need to earn the right to win games of football and right now that’s not the case at Ibrox.”
Rangers are 17 points behind Celtic in the Premiership table and Boyd says the Parkhead side are an example of wise spending.
Having won the title in 2021 by a whopping 25-point margin, the Ibrox team were beaten the following term after Ange Postceglou’s sensational rebuilding work.
Boyd noted factors as he assessed the current position for Rangers and recounted: “I think when you go back, it was the end of an era for Celtic in terms of a lot of the boys there. but there were a lot of guys there you could feel could go again.
“It helps when Celtic have got the money they can go and spend, but going back to it, they’ve spent wisely.
“Everybody looks and says it’s easy this season when you think Arne Engels at £11million, Adam Idah at £9million, Auston Trusty at £7million. Everybody looks at those three and you think you’re blowing everybody out the water with that.
“But Celtic’s recruitment the other side as well. Matt O’Riley one-and-a-half million. Reo Hatate one-and-a-half. The £20million brought in for O’Riley came from that.
“Their smaller signings, or the smaller fees, were spot on that allowed them to then progress and bring in, I’m not saying it’s a higher quality of player, but they’ve been able to spend bigger transfer fees.
“Rangers have spent money. Mohamed Diomande cost the same as Daizen Maeda, Hatate and O’Riley. Cyriel Dessers and Kyogo the same price.
“It’s not been a good [Rangers] season, but it seems to be it’s the same every single season right now and until somebody gets a grip of it and puts a proper structure in place, the recruitment needs to get better, then you’re just going to keep saying the same things.
“It’s not been good enough and it’s not been good enough for a number of years now.”
