ALEX RAE has told Mark Warburton that he is entering a whole new terrifying world at Rangers.

The former Ibrox star was 34 when he eventually won his dream move to the club he always supported and thought at that stage he had seen it all.

But Rae knows only too well that the new Rangers boss is about to find out that life in Glasgow is tricky when you are an Old Firm manager and things are not going perfectly.

Rae said: “It will be interesting to see how the guy copes. I played most of my football in England and when I came back up, the level of scrutiny, the media attention, was just ridiculous. I had never experienced anything like it.

“Even right at the start of the first season if we had drawn a game, people were going mad on phone-ins, columns , all they experts having a go. You think it’s personal. You think ‘what do these guys know?’

“Then you realise it is part of the game up here. To be fair, Warburton was being honest and frank when he said he didn’t know what to expect. He will have been told about it, but you need to experience it.

“The one thing about it is he’s not a kid. He has life experience. He’s achieved some things in his time and seems relatively confident about what he’s doing. I think most of the Rangers fans have been encouraged by that – but the proof will be in the pudding.”

Rae is prepared to give the Englishman a chance to prove himself and asked the supporters to show at least a little patience.

But the man who starred in Helicopter Sunday a decade ago dismissed any notion that promotion this time around is not the be-all and end-all for Rangers.

Rae said: “Everybody's objective is to win the league. Not winning promotion isn't an option at all.

"That was a big setback at the end of the season. I heard people say that they wanted another year in the Championship.

"That was total madness. I couldn't believe that, I couldn't buy into that.

"You want in the top league where the money is better and you attract better players and start building. For me it was a year lost. Mark needs to win promotion.”

Rae knows a little of the new man but while the 52-year-old Warburton has been welcomed by the fans, this former player needs a bit more convincing.

He said: “Davie Weir knows the club but I think there is a slight gamble too.

"If you speak to anyone about the magnitude of Brentford, and I've been there, it's a small club in London. It's a different ball game at Rangers - it's a massive job.

"I think the guy needs a bit of time and you won't get that in terms of results. But what I mean is that you can't look at next season and say that's his team.

"He will need time to build over a couple of years and put his stamp on it.

"It's a slow building process but it's also a case of winning games. They need to hit the ground running.”