Rangers boss Mark Warburton has defended his club's decision not to move to bring in any further players on transfer deadline day.
The newly appointed manager made eleven signings this summer, five fewer than the 16 that left the club at the end of last season.
While some may think that squad depth has taken a hit as a result, the 52-year-old manager is unperturbed by those worries, insisting that he knows what he has got.
Stressing his desire to have a "tight, lean squad", Warburton insisted that he didn't want to buy players just for the sake of buying as it is not good to have five or six players who never get the chance to be involved with the squad and travel with the team like tourists.
"The worst thing you can do is take numbers for numbers' sake and add bodies just in case", Warburton said at a press conference.
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"That's an awful scenario, to have four, five, six players not being involved with the first team on a Friday. All that creates is upset, resentment, so we have a tight, lean squad."
Warburton made a special mention of the academy squad he has got at his disposal, from where he can easily pick up one or two players in case of injuries.
"Yes, we're vulnerable to a spate of injuries, but we work hard, the medical team, etc, and if we have a problem we dip into the academy squad.
"Craig [Mulholland, the academy director] and his team are doing an excellent job, the likes of Tom Walsh, Fraser Aird, Barrie McKay, Ryan Hardie, will do a job for us.
"If we'd needed more players, we'd have got more players. There's no lack of support for what we needed."
