What could Rangers fans expect if Martin takes charge?

Russell Martin is, according to some, connected the brink of becoming the adjacent Rangers manager. Others accidental a woody is inactive immoderate mode off.

Some would person you judge different candidates are inactive precise overmuch successful the frame.

No wonderment Rangers fans don't cognize what to judge but a conception among them don't look overly enthused by the imaginable of erstwhile MK Dons, Swansea City and Southampton brag Martin taking charge.

Many are presumably unconvinced by his English Premier League acquisition past term, which led to his sacking and Southampton's eventual relegation.

However, that presumption does disregard the enactment done successful getting into England's apical formation and the expanding grounds to enactment the thought that the modulation from the Championship to the apical tier is an ever-expanding span to navigate.

So, what could Rangers expect connected the transportation if Martin takes complaint and are determination parallels with erstwhile Celtic brag Ange Postecoglou?

Martin himself told the BBC's Match of the Day past period that a cardinal constituent of taking connected immoderate occupation would beryllium "how the benignant of play volition fit" and "how convinced the ownership and radical successful complaint are with however we bash things."

That seems to suggest helium retains religion successful his philosophy.

Football manager and expert John Walker has undertaken extended investigation of Martin's managerial vocation and believes galore radical misunderstand his style.

"I deliberation there's a misconception of it being precise passive successful possession for possessions sake," helium told BBC Scotland.

"To me, anytime I've watched MK Dons, Swansea oregon Southampton - much the second successful the Championship - it was really truly guardant attacking play.

"It was precise accelerated forward. It wasn't excessively dissimilar, though not the nonstop aforesaid successful patterns, to Postecoglou's Celtic.

"That's astir apt wherefore I'm specified a champion for him taking implicit Rangers due to the fact that I judge it's a benignant of football, with aggression, that tin enactment successful Scotland."

Ironically, it was successful the aftermath of a 5-0 drubbing by Postecoglou's Tottenham Hotspur that Martin was sacked by Southampton.

His adjacent crippled successful the dugout could travel with Rangers.

A reluctance to accommodate is an accusation Postecoglou and Martin some share. But the latter's erstwhile Norwich City team-mate, Angus Gunn, would quality that.

Gunn came up against Martin's Southampton squad successful the English Championship en way to, what turned into, their unsuccessful instrumentality to the Premier League.

"They were a pugnacious team," the Scotland goalkeeper said. "We had a mates of bully games against them. One was 4-4, 1 was 1-1, truthful rather contrasting.

"When we archetypal played them they were rather open. Then erstwhile we played them again, they were a small spot pragmatic and I deliberation that shows a manager that tin accommodate and alteration the mode his squad plays.

"Watching his teams implicit the fewer years that helium was there, I thought helium did that adjacent though immoderate radical astir apt said that helium was reluctant to alteration a lot.

"I thought helium did that rather well, particularly successful the Championship."

The communicative astir the erstwhile Scotland defender, peculiarly with Southampton successful the Premier League, was that helium was excessively stubborn and needed to adapt.

The erstwhile Rangers defender's effect was firm.

"There is simply a quality betwixt being stubborn and having conviction," helium told BBC Sport. "If you truly judge successful thing arsenic a coach, manager, leader, past the logic for maine is that you instrumentality with it and effort to beryllium amended astatine it."

It suggests the principles of Martin's attack won't deviate, if helium gets the Ibrox job.

It seems determination volition beryllium a significant, if not seismic, alteration successful squad unit astatine Rangers, with caller funds disposable aft the takeover led by Andrew Cavenagh and 49ers Enterprises.

But conscionable however large would that request to beryllium to let Martin to instrumentality his ideas?

Walker believes wholesale alteration is required astatine Rangers, but insists Martin would beryllium unfazed by specified a task.

"I don't deliberation galore of the players that are presently determination volition survive," Walker said. "When helium went into Swansea, I deliberation they had 18 players permission implicit the summertime truthful they had to marque 17 signings.

"When helium went into Southampton determination were 20 radical wanting to leave.

"So he's got acquisition of gathering a squad and astir instantly implementing the benignant of play. I would expect a monolithic squad overhaul if helium comes in.

"I deliberation with the benignant of play, you're going to besides acquisition teething problems, a batch of goals conceded to commencement with.

"I deliberation the breathtaking portion volition beryllium there'll beryllium tons of goals for Rangers."