Ex-Partick manager Gerry Collins has claimed that Steven Gerrard underestimated Scottish football when he signed players for Rangers last summer.
Rangers started this season looking like a completely different team to the one that finished the 2017/18 campaign, but a number of Gerrard’s signings have failed to impress in their debut years at Ibrox.
Two players that Collins has not been impressed by are Eros Grezda and Nikola Katic, who cost the Gers a combined sum of £4million when they were plucked from Croatia.
“I believe Steven Gerrard took Scottish football too lightly by bringing all these players in,” Collins told RockSport Radio, as shown via their Periscope account on Tuesday [26:45 onwards].
“Grezda’s not kicked a ball for Rangers. In the games that he has played, has he showed up to be the type of player that the Rangers fans would like to have?”
He added: “The players that he’s brought in though. Katic, they’ve got a centre-half who cannot header a ball.”
OPINION
Grezda has hardly played for Rangers this season due to injury, but when he has played, it’s safe to say that the Albania international has been underwhelming to say the least. As for Katic, the Croatian centre-back has had chances under Gerrard and at the start of the season, it looked like him and Connor Goldson were a very good defensive pairing. They helped the Gers reach the Europa League group stages, but suddenly Gerrard axed Katic for Nottingham Forest loanee Joe Worrall, and that was the last we saw of Katic for a while. In his few appearances since, Katic has appeared to have lost a lot of confidence, and that is something Gerrard needs to take the blame for. So it’s not the case of Gerrard underestimating Scottish football with his signings, it’s more a case of bad luck and not managing them properly. However at the end of the day, Gerrard is still a rookie manager and he is going to make mistakes. Can Rangers keep affording mistakes though?