Clement has an amount of work to do. If Rodgers just needs to find extra pockets of class, Clement needs the guts of a new team.
Goldson, James Tavernier, Barisic, Kemar Roofe and John Lundstram may all be leaving. Loads of experience off the books, but loads of wages available for a rebuild, too.
Fabio Silva will return to England. Todd Cantwell? At one point, in the pulling and dragging on the pitch, his manager gave him a shove to get him off the scene. Perhaps he should keep shoving.
Clement still has Sam Lammers, Jose Cifuentes and Ianis Hagi – all out on loan. Will he want any of them? It’s hard to see it.
He’ll want to keep Abdallah Sima. The forward might cost £6m from Brighton but he tends to deliver consistently and is the type he needs.
Right now, there are too many unreliables at Rangers, too much mediocrity.
The manager has already brought in a left-back, the 20-year-old Brazilian Jefte, but that’ll just be the start of it.
The performances of Diomande and Sterling will give him great heart, but he needs more operators in their image.
Clement will need a lie down after this. Then, he’ll need to rise up and get back to the tough business of chasing a champion team who just know how to get it done.
