Durrant : Exploring Every Avenue

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IAN DURRANT says Rangers are â??exploring every avenueâ?? as they look to piece together a squad for next season.

 

The first-team coach has confirmed assistant manager Kenny McDowall was in San Pedro Sula last Friday to see Honduras and Mexico draw 2-2 in a World Cup qualifier.

 

Gers boss Ally McCoist has also been away this week and only returned to Murray Park for training this afternoon after going to watch players himself.

 

In addition to that, chief scout Neil Murray has been deployed in the last few games to look at potential signing targets.

 

Durrant himself stayed closer to home as he took in the Scotland under-21 sideâ??s 3-0 win over Luxembourg at St Mirren Park on Monday night.

 

Uncertainty over which league the Light Blues will be in next season remains as the wait for a final decision over reconstruction goes on.

 

That will have a bearing on who the likely Third Division champions are able to recruit to come in as free agents when their transfer embargo ends on September 1.

 

In the meantime, the clubâ??s coaching staff are trying to ensure they have all bases covered as they bid to ensure they get the right faces in later in the year.

 

Durrant said: â??Kenny was at the Honduras-Mexico game because there were a couple of players there who have come up as being recommended.

 

â??Neil is away and the manager has been away as well. In the last two or three weeks, weâ??ve just been looking at more people.

 

â??Weâ??ve got our dossiers of the players we want. Getting them in is another thing but itâ??s not for the want of trying.

 

â??From now to the end of the season, weâ??ll be out doing our recces and seeing who is out there for us.

 

â??I was at the Scotland under-21 game on Monday and they put on a really good show. Weâ??re exploring every avenue in terms of getting players in.

 

â??We are getting there, slowly but surely, and hopefully weâ??ve have a far stronger and better-equipped squad for next season.

 

 

â??We had to scramble a team together last summer with the transfer embargo coming and that was hard.

 

â??We made decision which, when you sat back with a bit of hindsight, we maybe wouldnâ??t have made.

 

â??Thatâ??s how it went though and thatâ??s what we were dealt with. We know that come September, we can bring in players and theyâ??ll be coming in.

 

â??We donâ??t know how big the squad will be but it will make us a stronger and far better team than what we are just now.â?