Rangers transfer guru reveals the 6 steps to seal Ibrox deals as he names where Polish clubs have no bridge to gap

A leading Rangers scout has revealed some of the processes behind the Ibrox recruitment chain - and laid out where their scouting department stand in relation to leading Polish clubs.

Piotr Kasprzak is the Premiership club's European scout, and has been with the Ibrox side since 2020, when previous sporting director Ross Wilson brought him in after time working together at Southampton. He covers Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the Balkans as Rangers look far and wide for talent.

Kasprzak has opened up on his role, and admits a particular gap between his club and top sides in Poland like Legia Warsaw and Lech Poznan isn't a huge chasm. But the level of expectancy is on a different scale. When asked if there was a big gap between Rangers' scouting and the big clubs in Poland, he told Goal: "NO. I'm talking about seven years ago and the transfer to the Premier League. Back then, Southampton was the club that Brighton is today. That is, the league's flagship in terms of scouting. There is no such a gap between the top clubs in Poland and Rangers. I mean, it is there, but from a different angle.

"I would say in terms of pressure. I worked in the Premier League for six years, but Rangers are another level. There are only Rangers and Celtic on it. If you win, you are on the last page of the newspaper. And when you lose, you end up in first place. And it doesn't matter if St Mirren or Barcelona.

"We are talking about a really different scale here. In Poland we sometimes say that Club X is a religion. Okay, it's important, the region lives with it. But Rangers really is a religion.

"People identify with the club in every area of life. Just like in our country we go to church on Sunday, in Glasgow we go to Ibrox. The