Writing in his column for The Daily Record, BT Sport pundit and former Celtic favourite Chris Sutton has slammed the Rangers squad after an ill-disciplined day at Hampden that resulted in a demoralising defeat for the Ibrox outfit.

What’s the story?

Smashed 4-0 in their biggest game of the season to date, divisions between the players and coaching staff surfaced throughout the day with Andy Halliday and Daniel Candeias both fuming at being substituted and two players reported to be involved in a tunnel bust-up after full-time.

Now Chris Sutton has blasted the behaviour of players like Halliday, claiming the Light Blues squad is out of control.

Writing for The Daily Record, the former Hoops striker said:

Halliday didn’t get close to anyone while he was on the park and his conduct was totally unacceptable. He was screaming at the bench – blaming everyone else but himself and that sums up the Rangers players’ mentality.

What kind of ship are Rangers running? Halliday was discarded by the previous manager and brought back in by Murty but was absolutely hopeless against Celtic yesterday.

So what right does he have to act like that? The Rangers players are out of control. Kris Commons did something similar with Ronny Deila in Molde but the difference is he could actually play and back it up.

With it looking increasingly unlikely that Graeme Murty will stay on as manager, what kind of manager do they need to come in and bring order back to the dressing room?

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Can the Light Blues recover next season?

In some ways, this season has been even worse than last term for Rangers, even though they may eventually finishing in second place in the Scottish Premiership.

Another manager change mid-season and two transfers windows of massive squad upheaval have fatigued supporters and left them absolutely perplexed about how they can begin to challenge for silverware next term.

What’s certain though is they need a strong character to come into the dressing room and immediately gain the respect of the playing squad. Arguably they’ve lacked that with both Pedro Caixinha and Graeme Murty in charge, with the former becoming something of a joke figure and the latter simply not having the experienced required.

They need a manager who’s been around the block a bit, knows British football inside out and has experience of dealing with big egos.

The question is whether decision makers at Ibrox can make the right appointment after failing multiple times in a row.