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Kris Boyd reckons Rangers lack any direction and have lost their class.

And the Kilmarnock striker has likened the chase for untried coach Steven Gerrard as trying to sign Jose Mourinho as a player.

Boyd is aghast at the levels of turmoil at his former club.

With the club lurching from off-field catastrophe to on-field calamity, the supporters are in a state of despair and disbelief.

Boyd says new depths were plunged as a club last weekend when, after a humiliating 5-0 defeat to Celtic, not one member of the Ibrox management or playing staff fronted up to their shattered fans to explain or apologise for the shambles.

He said: “It’s disappointing. It’s not Rangers. There’s always been a class inside the building.

“Some people will say that saying nothing is sometimes the best way.

“I tend to think it’s the other way. Then it allows other people to create headlines.

“If you come out and say what you want, you can control it or at least attempt to control it.

“To say nothing is frustrating. But let’s be honest. Does it come as a surprise now? No.

“You go back to them trying to get Derek McInnes and now it’s Steven Gerrard.

“It’s not as if there’s a plan and a direction of where they want to go.”

Boyd points to the lack of apparent plotting with regards to a new managerial appointment to prove his point.

Graeme Murty’s axeing has paved the way for Gerrard to take over but Boyd said: “If Rangers said they were signing Jose Mourinho as a player there would be outrage.

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“He’s a world class manager. Steven Gerrard is getting away with it because he’s a world class player but he has not been tested in the management side of it.

“For me, they are just trying to grab someone to get a headline out of it. It’s wrong.

“The club should have a structure in place. It should have a direction of where it wants to go. At this moment in time, it doesn’t have that.

“I don’t think Rangers are a club to develop a manager.

“They need someone who has been over the course and distance and who knows how to get the players onside, knows the club and knows how to get everybody pulling in the one direction.

“I’m not saying Steven Gerrard can’t do that.

“But looking at it right now, it’s another risky appointment as he has never managed before.

“I don’t think Rangers can take that gamble at this moment in time.

“There are jobs you can learn in. There are clubs who will allow managers to learn and develop.

“If that’s what they are looking at now, to develop a manager, I just don’t see where it’s going.

“You are going from tried and tested Derek McInnes who has done really well in Scotland to grabbing a youngster who has never managed. I don’t see the direction the club is going in.”

Chairman Dave King’s recent statement about demanding immediate success from a new manager also baffled Boyd, who believes the timing of the words were all too typical and predictable.

He said: “You could start writing the headlines again at the same time next year.

“As soon as the season tickets go on sale there are headlines to be made.

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“That is where Rangers are at this moment in time. The fans deserve to know exactly what is going on.

“They keep being told the club will turn and it will go back to what it was.

“But it is arguably worse than it was two years ago.

“The big problem is they have had to rip it up and start again every six months.

“They have one transfer window and then another one when they change it again.

“What is needed is a clear plan of where the club wants to go. Whether that is with Steven Gerrard or someone else, they need to have the best interests of the club.”

Boyd says the model being used by his own club is one Rangers should adopt.

Steve Clarke has put stability into Rugby Park over the past months.

The hitman said: “We went through the whole thing of changing 10 or 12 players every transfer window.

“Now there was hardly any signed in January and I doubt whether there will be many new faces in the summer.

“The gaffer has re-signed most of the players that have been there this season. We all know that group of players with the addition of one or two is the way we will go forward.

“As a player it gives you confidence that the guy at the helm has placed his faith in you rather than looking over your shoulder thinking, ‘will I be next to go out of the door?’.

“There are a lot of Rangers players living in fear. I don’t think it is just from Sunday.

“Rangers have spent a lot more money than everybody else.

“But, they have won just four games against Kilmarnock, Aberdeen, Celtic and Hibs this season. That is not good enough. They should be miles ahead in second.”

The striker was speaking at his inaugural Kris Boyd Charity Golf day at Trump Turnberry. The Boyd charity aims to raise awareness of mental health and support those in need.