Michael Beale admits Rangers rebuild goalposts have moved with its scale leaving no room for error

It's doesn’t really matter to Michael Beale what you call it anymore.

It’s only a couple of months since the Rangers boss scoffed at the use of the word rebuild to describe the scale of change required at Ibrox this summer. He reckoned “revamp” was a better way to go after admitting he was still weighing up who he’d be taking with him next year.

Well there is no doubt now that a major squad overhaul is needed after yet another defeat to Celtic on Sunday consigned the Light Blues to a barren campaign. The Londoner even backtracked on his own terminology take after conceding he was preparing to carry out the “biggest rebuild” Gers have seen in years, with a dozen ins and outs now on the horizon. The words may have changed but certainly what hasn’t is the necessity to get it right. Beale knows Rangers cannot afford to repeat the recruitment blunders of last summer that have left them trailing in the wake of Ange Postecoglou’s rampant Hoops.

The time for talking is over, now it’s about acting on his plan for Rangers’ recovery. “Listen, they’re all the same words,” the Ibrox gaffer insisted as it was pointed out he was the man who’d made the distinction between revamp and rebuild.

“I had 24 games [at that point] to go until the end of the season. Come on boys, you have to manage a group of men and their agents hang on every word. In the main, our record of results is good.

"Certain games have really hurt us. In every one of those [Old Firm] games, did we physically have the opportunity to turn the tide, to score or defend better? Yeah, we could.

“Did we use any of them? No, we never, so it’s blunt, it’s sharp, it’s horrible.

“The early part of this week, you can imagine what it was like for everybody – the despair. It’s a