Conor Coady has insisted "you can't go through transition at Rangers" as the former Ibrox transfer target unpacked what went wrong for Russell Martin.
The English centre-back had been heavily linked with a move to Glasgow in the summer as Rangers looked to bolster their rearguard.
However, he would instead join ambitious Championship club Wrexham.
Ironically Connor Coady, who was heavily linked with joining Rangers all summer, has nailed this. pic.twitter.com/7OjJRlNSDC
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Coady, though, has watched matter unfold at Rangers with Martin dismissed on Sunday after just one win in the league so far this season and the club sitting in eighth.
For Coady, the main issue was simple: not enough people in the ownership group, management team, and playing squad appreciated the size and nature of Rangers Football Club.
Speaking on BBC's Monday Night Club, he stated: "It takes time.
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"What I get from it, and I have never played up in Scotland, but what I get from Rangers, from following it and watching the games when they are on the telly and different things is; you don't have time to build, you just don't.
"I don't think, whether it is the ownership group, whether it is the people who have gone in, obviously the manager, the players who went up there this summer, I don't think they have realised how big that place is.
"I think everybody has thought, 'We will go up there and build and we will get better and we will improve'.
"I only know from watching it, but they need it now, as we said there, [they need it] yesterday.
"They need success every single time they play. I don't think it is necessarily just the ownership group that haven't seen that. I think it's players who went up this summer, I don't think they have realised how big the football club is.
"I look at it from the outside, watching the games and the support they take to every game, the way everyone looks at the games, that's what they are all about. They live and breathe Rangers.
"I don't think enough people have understood how big that is.
"It is tough for a club going through transition; you can't go through transition there. You can't.
"You need a manager, I'm not saying he will be the new manager because he won't, he's just got a job but someone in the Jose Mourinho mould, who just wins. I think that is what's needed."
