Celtic served notice on the three new Ibrox worldbeaters

It only required a scrambled 1-0 win away to Dundee United for the Rangers Review to get the drum out to big up the exciting young squad assembled by Phil Clement.

Overlooking the draining impact on the wage bill of James Tavernier, Tom Lawrence, Kieran Dowell and Cyriel Dessers focus as been placed on three summer signings who went AWOL in the Glasgow Derby just two weeks earlier.

Connor Barron, Jefte and Hamza Igamane are the shining stars of Clement’s squad which represents a serious downgrade on Todd Cantwell and Nicky Raskin who were getting the same treatment 18 months earlier.

While Barron is being hyped up to ridiculous levels his new employers are pushing the case for a £200,000 compensation fee to Aberdeen, Jefte has yet to find the form to interest Real Madrid with Igamane yet to produce a goal or an assist in his two substitute appearances.

Shamelessly the Rangers Review is the digital equivalent of the Daily Record in their James Traynor driven pomp. It gets to the stage that no guidance is required to hype up bang average projects into world beaters on the flimsiest of evidence.

Traynor was hand in hand with Keith Jackson introducing Record readers to a billionaire from Motherwell, Joshua Barrie of the Rangers Review is a little more restrained with the trio highlighted on Sunday unable to keep up with Aberdeen who are providing the main threat to Celtic.

The 11 players who arrived at Ibrox this summer, permanently and on loan, held a combined average age of 23. The average age of 13 who departed was five years older at 28.

Rangers; summer window was held up by outgoings as they sought to bring down an inflated wage bill and reset an ageing group. As the window progressed money freed up in wages was increasingly used to fund incomings. The Rangers Review understands that overall the playing wage bill has been reduced by £8-10million as the foundations of a new squad cycle, on lower wages, were built.

While internally the summer window is viewed as the start of a process, time to build in Glasgow is only made permissible by results and shoots of progress. You always inherit a legacy at a football club and the baggage of previous decisions.

The start of this season has been tricky for Philippe Clement. Out of Ibrox, with constant change above him, an early Champions League exit and another Old Firm defeat. Of course, isolated decisions the manager makes should not be void of criticism, and his team selection can fall into that category, but yesterday’s 1-0 win over Dundee United was a vital result that also produced some redeeming performances.