Derek McInnes has vowed to bring players with a blend of quality and strong mentality to Rangers.
The club have made one summer signing to date, with the new manager reunited with Lawrence Shankland after their season working together at Hearts.
They will press on with more additions in what is likely to be another busy summer of ins and outs, following the disappointment of finishing a distant third.
As someone who played for the club during the hugely successful nine-in-a-row period under Walter Smith, McInnes is under no illusions about the type of people Rangers should be signing.
Asked about transfers in his first press conference, he said: "I think when the window closes, we’ve got to be as strong as we want to be for all the reasons we’ve just mentioned about trying to win a league this season.
"We’re not going to probably get everything we want, and it’s not many clubs do. But it’s important that the money we do have at our disposal, the budget we’ve got to work with, we use it well and wisely.
"I’d like to think that we’ve got players in the building who are capable of a bit more as well, and it’s up to me and the staff to get that out of them. So with all that in mind, there might be changes, players leaving, players coming in. But every player that comes in will give us something.
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"We’re working hard currently to try and make sure we bring a level of player in that can deal with the expectation, but also give us that extra bit of quality that clearly we needed. Last season was disappointing for the club, and something similar isn’t going to get the job done, so there's work to be done."
McInnes is used to being a cog in a wider machine in terms of recruitment, working with Jamestown Analytics and sporting director Graeme Jones at Hearts.
He confirmed it will still be a "modern" approach in his new job, despite his title being manager instead of head coach, but he will have the final say.
He added: "I don't think it's a committee, but it's a modern way of doing things. So what we've got is a recruitment team who will liaise with us constantly.
"We identify the key positions that we feel we need to bring. And within that, there's conversations getting had and work to be done. The first port of call is affordability and accessibility to bring players here. There's no point in fishing in ponds that we're not going to be able to bring players in and waste too much time.
"So we quickly arrive at maybe a list of players that we can get. And then along with Jim (Gillespie) and obviously Stig (Bjornebye) going forward and with Dan (Purdy), we try and arrive at the best option for us both financially and more importantly how good a player he is and what he can bring.
"So age and everything is all part of it. But not every player needs to be a young player for development, and I think we understand that. There's a model there that we want to try and adhere to. But I've been given the assurances that every player that we sign will come down to me, the final decision. So it's a collaboration really and it's like-minded people just having conversations on a daily basis just trying to arrive at the best option for us."
