Kris Commons has condemned the lack of 'winning mentality' at Rangers and criticised club captain James Tavernier.
The right-back's programme notes before the 1-0 defeat against Hamilton Accies at Ibrox prompted a backlash from Rangers fans, who took issue with his suggestion that opponents "smell blood straight away" and "We are not good enough domestically at the minute to react to that".
Speaking in his Daily Mail column, former Celtic star Kris Commons insisted the club's PR department have to take their share of the blame for Tavernier's comments being published.
Commons said: "For James Tavernier to come out last week and basically admit that Rangers are bottle merchants was a staggering error of judgment on so many levels.
"Firstly, it provided concrete proof that the club's PR department is a shambles. Who on earth thought it was okay for those comments to go into a matchday programme?
"No wonder Tavernier was getting pelters from the fans. I guarantee you Steven Gerrard would have been raging at how it was handled. But the real error in judgment has to be the decision to make Tavernier the captain in the first place. He's not a leader.
"He makes far too many mistakes and it looks to me like he could now be on his way out of the club in the summer.
"For the skipper to say something like that publicly just makes the whole club look weak and it's symptomatic of why Rangers have buckled under the pressure.
"There's no winning mentality at the club. Never in a month of Sundays would Scott Brown come out and say something like that.
"If anyone else at Celtic spoke like that in public, he would come down on them like a ton of bricks.
"A parting of the ways now looks inevitable."
