Ally McCoist branded Rangers 'weak' in a furious live on-air rant about his former club this morning.
The former Gers and Scotland striker was reacting to last night's news that Philippe Clement had been sacked.
McCoist says that while Clement has to shoulder a large portion of the blame, the Belgian was not solely responsible for a largely disastrous season at Ibrox.
McCoist also believes that missing out on the signing of Lawrence Shankland cost the club the Scottish Premiership title last season, as he insists Rangers' opponents love playing against those in Light Blues jerseys this term.
He told talkSPORT: "Miles behind them (Celtic). It is a good job if you get backed, the recruitment has been shocking, it really has.
"You look across the city. The one thing you have to do as a Rangers manager, you have got to beat Celtic, if you are a Celtic manager, you have got to beat Rangers. It's relatively simple, to be a success, you have got to beat the other team.
Rangers, sadly, even including the very comfortable 3-0 win against Celtic a few weeks back, are a good way behind Celtic on and off the pitch. I know Celtic got beat at the weekend. They put in a good performance in Munich and deserved to go to extra time.
"The gulf between the two clubs, at this moment in time, is massive. So anyone going in there is going to have to take the whole place by the scruff of the neck and give it a right good shake.
"They are going to have to get backed by new owners, who financially back the new coach.
"The money which has been spent, you could name individuals, Cortes, people like that, it's millions of pounds, millions of pounds, have been effectively thrown away. I know the lad got injured. The players coming in have not been of a good enough standard.
"What the fans are finding it difficult to accept, and I am with them 100 per cent, is a lack of fight and lack of desire.
"The Rangers football team on the pitch is weak and I wouldn't mind playing against it, to be quite honest, it's a team you would love to play against because there is a weakness about it on the pitch and, sadly, off the pitch at this time as well."
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He continued: "You take that job, you can complain about recruitment, you can complain about the next thing, you will get the sack, the players won't get the sack and that is what has happened.
"Of course, he [Clement] has to shoulder responsibility. I don't think it is all down to him, by any stretch of the imagination.
"I actually think if they had gone last year and got Lawrence Shankland, I think they might have won the league, I genuinely do. If they had gone and given Hearts whatever they wanted, Shankland might have scored the goals which won Rangers the league.
"It wasn't to be, Celtic deservedly came back and won the league. The decline in the club, on and off the pitch, since they won the league and were beaten in the Europa League Final, it hurts to see."
