Rangers suffered harsh transfer lessons with Morelos and Kent but 2 more Ibrox missteps must be swerved - Kenny Miller

Rangers must learn lessons from this season. And I don’t just mean on the pitch where they’ve come up well short of what’s required.

I’m talking about off the park as well with regards to players’ contracts. Make no mistake, the situation they find themselves in with Alfredo Morelos and Ryan Kent can’t be repeated. Assets have been allowed to depreciate in value before being able to leave for free. As a club, Rangers can’t afford to let that happen again.

That’s why manager Michael Beale is planning talks with Borna Barisic and John Lundstram about their futures over the summer. Both players have just one year left on their deals. So in that scenario they either have to sign – or be sold. It’s that simple. if they’re not willing to commit the club have a sellable commodity on their hands. So big decisions have to be made. With Ridvan Yilmaz now in the building a lot of Rangers fans might think the Croat’s time is up at Ibrox.

But I’m not convinced. Listen, maybe Barisic is looking for a bit of freshness himself. If so, the club has to try to make some money on him – which they haven’t done with Morelos and Kent. He might fancy going elsewhere and that’s fine. But the club must cash in now.

At one point the fee being bandied about for Barisic – in terms of what Rangers could get for him – was around £6million. You won’t get anywhere near that sum with only one year left on his contract – but you could get something.

Yilmaz played well against Celtic last week but will he definitely start ahead of Barisic as Michael’s first-choice left-back next season? I’m not sure. To win leagues and cups at Rangers you have to maintain the levels required.

Yilmaz hasn’t shown that yet. He can’t be judged on one good Old Firm