Cyriel Dessers spoke exclusively to the Rangers Review. Read the full interview HERE.
Cyriel Dessers has outlined what the Rangers need in order for the club to be regularly challenging for silverware.
The striker, who left Glasgow last summer to join Panathinaikos in Greece, won the Premier Sports Cup in his first season at Ibrox, his only major honour.
"I think for a team like Rangers to be competing for league titles and trophies, having an experienced core is essential," he said. You see a lot of clubs with the business model of buying young players, developing them, and selling them. For a lot of clubs, this can work.
“At Rangers, it can also work, but it has to be in balance with that core of experience - guys who understand the league, who've been there for a few years, who've been through the difficult and good moments, and who can guide those young, talented players."
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Dessers continued, "This is the main part of being at Rangers. There is no such thing as only development. Every weekend, you need to win.
"If you don't win, people don't care about development; they don't care about how much money they get for you when they sell you, it's only about winning on the Saturday, winning on the Sunday. And this is the number one at Rangers. I like this mentality.
"But it helps if you have the core of players that understand this and can transfer it well to a group in a dressing room, not only in training by putting the bar high, but also on game days to let the group know, 'Hey, today we cannot drop anything'."
Read the Rangers Review's full, exclusive interview with Cyriel Dessers HERE.
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