WInless in five & 11th in Premiership – but Martin says Rangers can still win title

Russell Martin insists that despite their disappointing start to the season, the Rangers’ confidence is “the best it has been” since he became head coach.

This season, the Ibrox side have won four of their 14 games, but they have lost four of their last five league games.

After being humiliated by Club Brugge in Champions League qualifying, Martin’s side are second bottom of the Premiership and were defeated 1-0 at home by Genk in Thursday’s Europa League opener.

And he insisted they can still recover the nine-point deficit from leading duo Celtic and Hearts, despite admitting they can’t wait “too much” to win the first league game.

By the end of the season, Martin’s side will be playing in Livingston on Sunday. You’ll run out of games if you let it go too long.

Despite the Genk defeat, where Mohamed Diomande was sent off four minutes before the break, he said, the players are in a good place.

Martin also emphasized that many of his new players were “very young,” but that they were starting to understand what it meant to play for a team like Rangers.

All of that, he said, will help us succeed, including the willingness to run for each other and the willingness to take the ball with 10 men.

Despite receiving calls from numerous fans for him to be fired, Martin insisted that his “job is in danger wherever you work, is wherever you work,” and that he does not listen to the “outside noise.”

After the most recent defeat, he claimed that there had been many discussions about his conversation with chairman Andrew Cavenagh and chief executive Patrick Stewart, but he added that the media prefers to assume that everyone is having a heated discussion about “is he going, is he staying?”

“But generally, we just talk about the performance, the next game, and what we can improve. The situation is the same.