Graeme Souness delivers his verdict on Rangers boss Philippe Clement and makes huge claim

Graeme Souness insists Philippe Clement would give football’s greatest brains a run for their money in transforming the fortunes at Rangers.

The former Ibrox boss believes the Belgian is the right man to be leading his old club and is convinced talk of a gulf between rivals Celtic only exists in the striking department. After a remarkable Europa League 4-1 victory over Nice France moved the Light Blues into an automatic last 16 place in the league phase of Uefa’s second tier competition, Souness backed under pressure Clement with a resounding endorsement.

He said: “Rangers have a manager who is more than capable of achieving for the club but I don’t care if you had Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp working at Ibrox right now and brought Sir Alex Ferguson out of retirement to help them, I don’t see results being any different. "This guy they have in charge more than knows what he’s doing. He just needs help in terms of bringing in better players

.“From the outside looking in I have no in depth knowledge of the current situation so I won’t be critical of the structures in place. What I would say is that I don’t care who the manager that is in there right now, I’m not sure he’d be getting any better results with the squad they have.

“I believe Rangers need an injection of money to help the manager to do his job which he’s more than capable of doing if he had the resources. Right now he’s managing a group of players who are behind Celtic and I’ll be criticised for saying this but I don’t see any great gulf between the two teams. I was at an Old Firm cup final last season and a league game between them last season and didn’t see one team out-footballing the other team,

“What I do see is Celtic having players who do the most