Jermain Defoe has outlined the mindset Rangers players need to take into the new season – and says it isn't about "stopping Celtic".
The 37-year-old wants to be part of something special at Ibrox, and insists that's more important than halting Neil Lennon's side as they go for an historic Ten in a Row.
Speaking to Jim White on his morning talkSPORT show, Defoe said: "At the end of the day, it's not about stopping Celtic or whoever it is, it's us becoming champions and doing something special as a group.
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"It's a massive football club and the demands is you have to win trophies, you look at all the great players before us and what they have achieved.
"You see these things around the training ground, you see these things at Ibrox, you feel the history when you walk into the place.
"And, of course, you want to come one day when you leave this football club, you can look back and say 'you know what, I was a part of something special, and this is what we won'.
"If you're not thinking along those lines then you shouldn't be playing."
