Alex Lowry is outrageous Rangers talent and can be transfer problem solver amid Joe Aribo chase - Keith Jackson

Gio van Bronckhorst is about to discover just how much hard work lies ahead of him this summer.

The Rangers manager will return to his Auchenhowie HQ this morning and the first thing on his to-do list ought to be organising sit downs with three key players and asking director of football Ross Wilson to pull up a chair at the same time. By allowing Ryan Kent, Joe Aribo and Alfredo Morelos to enter the final year of their contracts, Wilson has placed Van Bronckhorst in an almost impossible position at the start of his first full season in charge.

Somehow the Dutchman has to persuade this trio to put pen to paper on extensions at the eleventh hour. Or he has to start preparing for life without them. And then he’ll have to keep his fingers crossed that Wilson isn’t caught with his pants down again when it comes to doing the club’s bidding in this summer’s transfer market. Because right now it’s becoming increasingly difficult to imagine how Van Bronckhorst might be robbed of so much talent all at once and still come out the other side of the window with his starting XI not considerably weaker than it was when he found it in the first place. To lose just one of them would be a body blow.

But if all three are about to leave the premises then Van Bronckhorst and Wilson will have an almighty task on their hands if they are serious about making it into next season’s Champions League while attempting to relieve Celtic of their domestic crown. That Aribo clocked up 57 appearances for the club last term is indicative of his enormous importance to this Rangers team.

But with the likes of Nottingham Forest and Crystal Palace forming an orderly queue outside his agent’s office, it does feel as if the Nigerian international might