Souness has hailed Rohl for turning issues round after a disastrous Russell Martin spell which left the Ibrox hero dumbfounded
10:00, 21 Mar 2026
Graeme Souness reckons Danny Rohl’s threat free Rangers are BETTER than Celtic – they only want a goalscorer.
The former Ibrox player-manager watched on because the Hoops dumped their rivals out of the Scottish Cup quarter-finals on penalties, only a week after combating again to grab some extent on the demise in a 2-2 Premiership draw.
Despite that, Gers are nonetheless effectively within the combine for a primary league title win since 2021, with simply three factors separating the highest three. Given the beginning made underneath Russell Martin, Souness is adamant that it might be some feat if Rohl was to finish the season along with his group high of the pile.
But even when they do not, he is simply glad to see his group taking part in what he sees as frequent sense soccer in comparison with what was served up under Martin.
“I by no means thought he was the suitable alternative within the first place and there was an apparent enchancment when Danny Rohl took over,” he informed Record Sport.
“Under the previous manager it was not football for…how can I put this in the nicest possible way? It’s not football that I can understand and I can’t understand anyone wanting to play that way.
“Especially at a membership like Rangers, the place it is an up and at ’em soccer membership, you must be on the entrance foot on a regular basis and not have 100 passes earlier than you cross the midway line.
“That ain’t football. Not in Scotland. That ain’t football anywhere.
“Now, they combine it up a bit, they’re much less predictable, somewhat bit . He’s simplified it for the gamers and thery play a much less dangerous sport of soccer. They’re not having an excessive amount of possession close to their very own purpose.
“You know, all they need someone to make a sloppy pass with that football we were witnessing before from the previous manager. It can lead to an effort on your goal. I think he’s simplified it, he’s made it less risky for them, and I would imagine, I would imagine, it’s a lot simpler for the players to understand.
“I feel they want extra objectives. They’re a better group than Celtic. That sport the opposite day was selected penalties, however there was only one group going to win it.
“If you’re trying to attach logic to it, a team that has 24 shots and 120 minutes of football. A team that has one shot in 120 minutes, there should only be one winner. So Rangers can only look at themselves and blame themselves for not winning that game.That was the game I saw. I watched it… unfortunately, I was abroad at the time, and only saw the previous Old Firm game, where I believe Rangers were fantastic in the first half.
“And then the second half belonged to Celtic, however I feel there is a elementary cause for that.”
There’s been a sea of change at Rangers since last summer, both on and off the pitch, but the Souness insists the club clawing it;s way back into title contention is down to one man.
“I feel the one person who, deserves all of the credit score, actually, is the supervisor,” he said. “Because I understand how troublesome a job that’s, and he is are available in, and he appears to have hit the bottom working. He’s made frequent sense choices. As I mentioned, he is simplified it for the gamers he is acquired.
“He’s had one transfer window, but when you walk into a football club, you don’t get that job, you don’t get a job as a manager because it’s going well. Very, very, very rarely does that happen, where you’re handed a team that’s strong and going in the right direction.
“So he needed to work out fairly shortly what suited, what system, what approach of taking part in suited these gamers, and he is performed that, and I feel it is… as I mentioned, he is had a typical sense method. There is an excessive amount of… for the bluffers who remark about soccer, they attempt to introduce an excessive amount of science right into a sport that is actually fairly easy.
“I think he’s proven he’s doing a good job, and If he ends up winning the league, it won’t be a good job, it’ll be a great job, but right now, he’s doing a very good job.
“He’s barely acquired his toes underneath the desk, and I feel we must be affected person Because what I see, what I noticed, at that Old Firm sport I used to be at, all we have been missing was, somebody to place the ball behind the web. I say only, that’s the hardest factor to seek out in soccer. So for me, they want… and going again the final couple of years, that is the place Celtic have been better than Rangers.
“Not in general football terms, but they had better goalscorers, and that’s why they won the league. And we haven’t.
“A pair years in the past at Parkhead once we acquired the participant despatched off. And Tavernier scored, we’re 2-0 down.
“And we were a better team with 10 men, and Tavernier scored a free kick into the Rangers end, or it used to be Rangers end at Parkhead. But I saw a team that were just missing one thing, someone to put the ball in the back of the net, and I think that’s still the case today. Because you cannot have that much of the ball, many shots, And not score a goal, 24. That’s not good.”
Graeme Souness was talking at Flutter’s Cash4Clubs initiative, which can see 250 neighborhood golf equipment throughout the UK and Ireland obtain a share of grants value a complete of £500,000.
