With the transfer window now closed Rangers know exactly what they have to do to overhaul Hearts and Celtic at the top of the table to recapture the league title.
The deadline day signing of Ryan Naderi is an intriguing one. A lot of fans were crying out for another striker, with neither Youssef Chermiti nor Bojan Miovski delivering goals in huge quantities.
But I can’t help thinking it was a goal creator, rather than goalscorer, that was most urgently required to aid Danny Rohl’s quest for glory.
Take the Hibs game at the weekend as an example: Chermiti led the line well enough but ultimately Rangers didn’t create sufficient opportunities either for him or anyone else and Raphael Sallinger was barely troubled in the home goal.
That, for me, is what will be Rangers’ undoing this season unless they can solve the conundrum of how to break teams down, regardless of who is playing up front.
They badly need players like Andreas Skov Olsen to start producing the goods if they are to come out on top in the three-way contest for the title.
Olsen’s pedigree is unquestionable but in his two games so far there have been no signs of the player Rangers thought they were getting.
Rangers need him to quickly find top form, starting with the game at home to Kilmarnock.
It will be interesting to see if Naderi is thrown straight into the team as Rangers aim to narrow the gap to just three points behind the leaders.
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