Kris Boyd has called for change at Rangers, telling them to stop 'plodding along' with the current regime.
Wednesday's loss at Aberdeen has put the Ibrox side a staggering nine points behind the league leaders - and they have a huge Premier Sports Cup semi-final against Motherwell to prepare for this weekend.
Rangers have tasted defeat three times from their 10 Scottish Premiership matches so far, and the heat is on manager Philippe Clement to deliver an upturn in results fast.
Boyd believes Rangers are currently just 'plodding along' going nowhere under the current regime and rejects the notion that they can't part ways with Clement because he recently signed a contract extension until summer 2028.
Speaking to Sky Sports on Thursday, the ex-Rangers striker raged: "For Rangers to be nine points behind Celtic is bad enough, but to be nine points behind Aberdeen at this stage of the season, 10 games in, is not good enough.
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"I think there is many factors that have led to the way Rangers are playing right now and everything else behind the scenes, but somebody needs to get a grip of the football club from top to bottom.
"You go back a few years ago now since Rangers won the league and you've got to say that the decline has started from then. They've not been able to kick on, I think there's been many people within that working environment who could've done better.
"Who is making the decisions? Because right now it's not good enough.
"You listen to people go on about the impact of sacking another manager, but if it's not the right man then you need to try and find the next man. You can't just continue to plod on and plod on because right now that's what Rangers are doing. Everything's a plod on the pitch, and everything off it.
"I just look at Philippe Clement, he came in and you've got to say there was a freshness about him, I thought he spoke really well to the media, he was clear on the message that he wanted to convey. Whereas, the last three or four months, he's been the total opposite person to what he was when he first arrived. There's a lot of people telling me that he signed a new contact, that's irrelevant.
"I don't think the release clause or the termination will be more than what it was whether he was in a two year contract, a three year, four year or five year. It doesn't matter. The release clause will be what it was.
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"I get the fact that winning games of football breeds confidence and you can communicate better with people. But looking for excuse after excuse, Rangers fans don't want to hear that. They've sat and watched it, they don't want to hear 'oh, we were unlucky, it was one of our better performances'. I think if you look back at it if that was one of the better ones then I wouldn't like to have seen the worse ones.
"The recruitment has been very poor in the past, it has been very poor right now. Philippe Clement was speaking last night about getting to another transfer window. I mean, if that's all you can look for to get to another transfer window to recruit more players that have failed to deliver. There is nothing to suggest that this is going to get any better.
"You can only look at what's going on right now and then judge it from there, and it's a million miles off where it needs to be.
"There's probably Rangers fans out there thinking to themselves that the last thing that we want to do is actually beat Motherwell because bad enough losing to Aberdeen, but if you go to Celtic and it's another cup final defeat right now then something has to change.
"Whatever they are trying to do right now is not working!"
