With Siegrist in the door, is this the week we leave the Ibrox side in the dust?

With the news in last night that Benjamin Siegrist is now a Celtic player and the likelihood of more to come before the week is out, the lack of movement from the Ibrox side is starting to become a major cause for concern for their fanbase.

As they continue to offer new deals to all of their elder statesmen over at Ibrox, it seems clear that austerity is finally on it’s way to Govan.

After losing £100 million over the course of ten years, it would appear the well is beginning to run dry.

Add to the fact that whenever they thought they might be finally getting ahead, Mike Ashley was always waiting in the wings to dampen that enthusiasm.

It seems evident that his latest settlement has dealt a killer blow to the club’s title hopes for next season.

They are currently in a tough position when it comes to their star striker, Alfredo Morelos. He only has one year left on his contract, so the club knows if they’re going to cash in on him, the time is now.

Either that or they offer him a new deal.

The question is, are they even in a position to do this?

Do they actually have the finance to offer him the deal he will want to stay there?

Especially when he knows he can leave for nothing at the end of the season having signed a pre-contract in January with a club of his choosing, should he so wish to do so.

This time a year ago, confidence was sky high over at Ibrox that we were down and we were staying down.

The Ibrox board fully believed that we were entering a transitionary period and that all they had to do was qualify for the Champions League and financial stability was theirs.

As we all know – it didn’t quite pan out that way and if the position they find themselves in now is anything to go by – blazing a trail all the way to