Borna Barisic has urged his shellshocked Rangers team-mates to clear their heads and focus fully in trying to get back to the Champions League next season.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s team ended a horror European campaign with the worst-ever record in the Champions League, rounded off by a 3-1 home defeat to Ajax that left them with no points and a goal difference of minus 20. And Croatia international Barisic admits that there has been a mental as well as physical cost to the Rangers squad after suffering repeated hammerings.
But the left back is ready to draw a line under it and get back to concentrating on domestic issues, starting with St Johnstone in Perth on Sunday. Barisic said: “That’s the one thing that we need to do. I think that every time we play Champions League and we lose a game, of course we are disappointed, not just physically but you are tired.
