Kris Commons reckons Giovanni van Bronckhorst's controversial Champions League feedback can have set alarm bells ringing at Rangers.
The Ibrox boss angered supporters after a 4-0 drubbing from Ajax final week when he insisted his facet cannot compete within the competitors with out "a whole lot of tens of millions". The sobering end in Amsterdam adopted shedding to Celtic by the identical scoreline simply days earlier and piled stress on Van Bronckhorst.
His facet are already 5 factors adrift of their metropolis rivals within the Premiership and, after the supervisor's "defeatist" claims, Commons says he feels sorry for followers who forked out a hefty sum for the membership's three-match Champions League ticket bundle. The previous Celtic star is not having the notion Rangers - who reached final season's Europa League closing - cannot lay a glove on the likes of Ajax and has informed Van Bronckhorst to chop out the reasons. He wrote in his Day by day Mail column: "The alarm bells are starting to ring for Rangers.
"Two pitiful 4-0 defeats in a matter of days have posed critical questions of Giovanni van Bronckhorst 's future as supervisor. However, even past the outcomes towards Celtic and Ajax, it was his feedback after the Champions League defeat in Amsterdam which can have angered followers most of all.
"Supporters will not be impressed to listen to their supervisor claiming that the crew cannot compete at that stage. It is nothing greater than a handy excuse.
"Sure, I perceive that Ajax are a giant membership and so they performed some wonderful soccer on the night time. However they don't seem to be a Actual Madrid, a Man Metropolis, a Liverpool, a Chelsea or a Bayern Munich. They don't seem to be among the many true monetary superpowers of European soccer.
"They're only a very well-run membership with a transparent concept of what they're doing on and off the pitch. I did not hear a lot speak of budgets and monetary gaps from Dinamo Zagreb after they beat a Chelsea facet who spent over £250million in the summertime.
"It confirmed a defeatist angle from Van Bronckhorst to make use of the excuse of cash. A well-coached and well-motivated crew can all the time compete. Additionally alarming was how a lot the match in Amsterdam was only a continuation from what occurred at Celtic Park. There was no response in any way from the Rangers gamers.
"If Rangers cannot lower it at this stage, as Van Bronckhorst claims, then God assist the followers who've simply forked out £180 for the three-match bundle at Ibrox. It speaks of a supervisor who would not imagine in his gamers.
"Even when this squad aren't geared up for the Champions League, the boss should not be saying that in public. He needs to be focusing his efforts on a strong and settled beginning XI.
"There's nonetheless an excessive amount of uncertainty round this Rangers crew. There is no clear concept of what they're attempting to do and that is in stark distinction to what is going on on at Celtic."