Graeme Souness reveals his Rangers revolution kicked off with key £30k upgrade before big name transfers

Graeme Souness was bankrolled by Rangers to make big money signings to change the face of Scottish football during his Ibrox revolution but the Light Blues legend has revealed how convincing the club to splash out £30,000 to upgrade the SHOWERS was his first job.

Those dressing room improvements came before splashing the cash to land English superstars such as Chris Woods and Terry Butcher who led the Anglo invasion in Govan and kickstarted a period of dominance for the club after years in the doldrums.

Souness spoke as Rangers launched their new kit for next season with the design inspired by one worn by him and his former players in the late 1980s with the leaked images of the soon-to-be-released away strip also coming from the same era. The 69-year-old shared his memories from that spell and in a top level playing and management career which spanned almost four decades, Souness told how the greatest atmosphere he ever experienced in football.

That came in the 1987/88 season when Rangers overcame a 1-0 first leg deficit against the mighty Dynamo Kiev side of that era to win 2-0 at Ibrox thanks to goals from Ally McCoist and Mark Falco, one of the English players brought north of the border. But long before signings Souness had more important issues to deal with when he accepted the job of player manager in 1986.

Sitting in the dressing room at Ibrox, he told Rangers TV: “It evokes great memories being in here. I remember David Holmes falling off his seat when I told him what I wanted to do in here in terms of increase the power on the showers, change the shower heads. The quote was £30k which was a fortune 40 years ago but he eventually relented and we gave the players what I wanted.

“It was about upping the game