Rangers midfielder Aaron Ramsey 's Ibrox introduction hasn't quite gone to plan.
Paraded in front of the grand entrance to the Main Stand on deadline day, the Wales international that night looked like being a title game changer as he arrived on-loan from Juventus.
One month on and things are moving in the wrong direction for Ramsey to have an impact on the title race.
10 games remain - and we already know thanks to Giovanni van Bronckhorst 's transparent approach to team news that he will sit out against St Johnstone on Wednesday night, taking it to nine.
There's also the European front.
Upon his January 31 late night unveiling, Ramsey said: “I am really pleased to be joining a club like Rangers, where there is so much to look forward to between now and May.
“I had a number of offers on the table, but none matched the magnitude of this club, with European football and the chance to play in front of 50,000 fans every other week.
“I have had some fantastic conversations with the manager and Ross Wilson, and I’m really looking forward to working with both of them, and to meeting the supporters.”
The Juventus loanee mustered a four minute cameo in the first leg against Dortmund at the Westfalenstadion.
He was unable to feature in the return fixture and, eight days out from the first leg against Red Star Belgrade, Van Bronckhorst has "no timeline" for him to feature once more.
Ramsey and Rangers are running out of road to make the signing worthwhile to both the player and his temporary club.
And it may well turn out that taking a player from inertia to full match fitness, at a time when Rangers are set to play in their seventh midweek in a row, was always like aiming for a moving target.
The good news is this season is going right to the wire, as has seemed the case for many months.
And if Ramsey can get himself fit for the April 3 meeting with Celtic at Ibrox - two months on from when he sat out the derby demolition that followed his signing - he can yet prove his worth.
The problem is, 30 days since joining, the former Arsenal star seems to be back where he started.
