Former Rangers player and manager Graeme Souness feels the Glasgow giants would struggle to even afford to compete with the wages on offer at League One clubs in England at present.
Mark Warburton has come under pressure in recent weeks for failures of some of his high profile signings in the summer and is under greater scrutiny going into the winter window.
With Joey Barton leaving the club last month and Joe Garner struggling to justify his £1.8m price tag, the Rangers boss has been walking a tightrope when it comes to his transfer spending.
However, Souness has sympathy for the former Brentford boss and believes the Englishman has been working with a serious financial handicap at Ibrox because of Rangers' budgetary constraints.
The former Gers boss feels the club are in not in a position to financially compete with English Championship clubs and might even struggle to pay the kind of wages League One clubs fork out.
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Souness told the Herald Scotland: “I don’t think the manager has been given any chance.
“They don’t have any money, that’s the bottom line.
"The lower leagues in England, if you are talking about the Championship, Rangers can’t afford players in that league.
“I’d suggest they’d struggle to pay what’s in League One.
"That’s where they are right now and that’s the handicap they have.”
Warburton has revealed that the club are trying to sign a midfielder of pedigree on loan in January, but has offered no clues as to who it may be.
