Igamane & Nsiala not Rangers first-team ready as Clement urges transfer patience

Philippe Clement admits new signings Clinton Nsiala and Hamza Igamane aren’t first-team ready.

Rangers landed French defender Nsiala, 20, from AC Milan earlier in the window and splashed out around £2million on Moroccan Under-23 hotshot Igamane. But Clement has warned that two of his six summer arrivals so far have been brought in with an eye to the future.

The Ibrox boss said: “We have some players who have come in who are longer term, like Clinton Nsiala. He has a lot of talent, but he needs the experience and he needs to learn a lot of things. I don’t expect him to be a starting player.

“The same with Hamza Igamane. He will not be ready to start. He’s never trained or played physically at this level. He comes out of a holiday too, so we need to build him up. We have other players like Connor Barron and Jefte who can get there faster.

“It is not easy to replace five players and Robby [McCrorie] also without money coming into the club. That is not an easy thing. It’s focusing on everyone to get the best out of them. We have players coming back from long-term injury, several in fact. We cannot train them in the same way.

“Several won’t be ready for the 90 minutes, I know that so we still have a lot of things to do. We have to focus on every single individual story and how to get the best out of them.”