I am Rangers 9 in a row hero but Graeme Souness threatened to sell me after a WEEK if I folded - Clement's men need balls

Rangers legend John Brown insists Philippe Clement’s men must deal with the pressure and get on the winning trail now they’re back at Ibrox - and warned them there is no room for excuses at the Light Blues.

And the nine-in-a-row hero told how Graeme Souness threatened to sell him just EIGHT DAYS after buying him if he wasn’t up to the job of coping with the demands of playing for the club. Brown signed for his boyhood heroes for a bargain £350,000 when Souness took him from Dundee in 1988 and he spent 19 trophy-laden years at Ibrox.

Brown insists the winning mentality of Souness and his assistant and successor at Rangers, the late Walter Smith, is needed. The Light Blues return to Ibrox on Saturday when they face a Premier Sports Cup quarter final tie against his other old club Dundee after being forced to play at Hampden Park in the early part of the season due to delayed construction work.

Rangers have fallen five points behind Celtic in the Scottish Premiership title race and crashed out of the Champions League qualifiers at the hands of Dynamo Kyiv. Fans hope being back at Ibrox will spark a change in fortunes, but Brown believes the winning mentality has been missing under Phillippe Clement.

He also says Hampden should not have been used as an excuse. Speaking to his former Old Firm rival, Celtic striker Frank McAvennie, on the latest episode of the Let Me Be Frank podcast, Brown recalled being told by Souness just eight days after arriving from Dundee in 1988 that he’d be quickly sold if he didn’t have the right mental strength.

Nicknamed Bomber, he said: “It’s a good thing they’re back at Ibrox, but as Graeme Souness and Walter Smith always said, the one thing you need to do at this football club is win. That’s