The transfer deal someone at Rangers 'lost their job' over

The striker joined the Ibrox club from Everton in the summer in a deal that could rise to £10million with add-ons.

So far in light blue, however, Chermiti has failed to deliver, scoring just two goals in 20 appearances across all competitions.

"The club find themselves in a difficult situation because ultimately, you've paid £8-10million for somebody to come into your football club, which is a hefty price in Scottish football," said Bartley on Clyde 1 Superscoreboard.

"The manager is probably thinking, in order for us to get him out he probably needs to play. If he is playing and misses a chance when he's through on goal and falls over the ball, he's going to cost you at some point as well.

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"He's stuck between a rock and a hard place because if he's not playing for Rangers and the January window comes and they try to offload him on loan or permanently, his value is going to have dropped significantly.

"The manager is probably thinking, 'Who am I going to replace him with?' Has Bojan Miovski been much better than him in the games? Who knows. Maybe he trains better and he's trying to get that on the pitch on a weekend. There's varying factors.

"But when you spend that sort of money on a centre forward they have to do a lot, lot more. It's not always about scoring goals, if you're not scoring goals and the rest of your game is really tidy, people can overlook that.

"But for me, he's not looked like an £8m signing at all and that falls on the recruitment team. It could be one of the reasons he was moved on as well. It's not £500k for a player, it's £8m with the wages on top of that. Someone has ultimately lost their job over it.

"But they need to find a way to get him in the team and get him performing well enough, or they are going to have to cut their losses and move him on."