Derek McInnes has explained why Rangers two latest signings are not in his XI to face Motherwell today.
Striker Kevin Kelsy arrived in a £9.5million deal fro Portland Timbers on transfer deadline day, and winger Badredine Bouanani came in on loan from Stuttgart on the same day.
Kelsy is named among the substitutes for today's game at Ibrox, while his fellow new arrival Bouanani is not in the matchday squad at all.
With Lawrence Shankland having scored three goals in two games, Kelsy also told his manager he was comfortable starting on the bench.
Whle Bouanani has not been playing a lot of football and so will be given time to get up to speed.
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McInnes told Rangers TV: "It's not easy getting good players in, obviously Kevin Kelsy was one that was dragging out, but the club's done so well to get him in, reacted brilliantly to Youssef's [Chermiti] injury and hopefully he can come and hit the ground running.
"Having a conversation with him yesterday, he feels more comfortable coming from the bench today and hopefully we'll see him at some point.
"Badredine isn't involved today. He's not had a lot of football the last few weeks, so he was only with us yesterday for a lighter session. The intention is to get him ready, get him a couple of training days ahead of St Mirren and hopefully we see him for that game."
Motherwell have started the season strongly and McInnes expects a hard game.
He added: "I think we're going to have a tough game but, equally, it's important that they've got an even tougher one and hopefully we can get off to a good start, get the crowd into it. 50,000 here and we've got to try and tap into that."
