“Danny Rohl jumps from the Sheffield Wednesday frying pan into the Rangers oven”

However, the word on Rohl is quite positive. Players speak at length about his many strengths. Barry Bannan says he is the best manager he has ever played for.

It’s not the same, but it has worked successfully in a demanding system before. And at Sheffield, before his appointment, the team was in the grip of their worst start to the league in more than 150 years.

He had an owner, Chancery, who was, to put it mildly, eccentric. He had fans buzzing over all sorts of things. He had players who were not only frustrated, but sometimes not paid.

So, even though Ruhl is only 36 years old, he has had experience of football’s turmoil. He’s young, but he may not be wet behind the ears. I hoped not, for his sake. A defender, he was ruled out of the game with an anterior cruciate ligament injury at the age of 21. It takes talent and drive to do the things he has done ever since.

Every Rangers fan will know the broad strokes of his story, and the assistant manager positions he held at RB Leipzig, Southampton, Bayern Munich and Germany.

He has said before that he does not practice a faith and is not a slave to any system. It is flexible, whether it is 4-2-3-1, 3-4-3, 4-4-1-1 or any other formation. He seems to have tried them all at one time or another depending on the challenge staring him in the face.

There is enough testimonial about the endless hours he spent at Sheffield Wednesday and the improvement he brought to his players – Geddy Gassama, who now plays for Rangers, is one of many.

Fans loved and admired him. He kept Wednesday awake when most people had given up all hope. He led them to a twelfth-place finish the following season with a team full of energy and togetherness despite the Chancery-inspired chaos behind the scenes.

Fans didn’t want him to leave at the end of his sophomore season in July of this year, but they believed he would be better off outside of the basket case.

He cited financial problems and the complete breakdown of communications with Chansiri as the reason for terminating the contract agreed between the two parties.

Ruhl says the scale of the challenge Rangers face is part of the appeal, which is what you’d expect him to say, but fans have heard too much chatter from too many managers to be comfortable with combative talk.

Win the games and he can be as calm as a Trappist monk. It does not win matches and the eloquence of the greatest orator will not save him. It’s always been like this.