RANGERS boss Mark Warburton insists he is being given all the backing he wants from the Ibrox board and has urged fans to give it time before judging him and his low-key signing policy.

The Ladbrokes Championship side released 11 players at the end of last term and have added just three to the first-team squad in Danny Wilson, Rob Kiernan and Wes Foderingham with Andy Halliday also close to signing a three-year contract.

Kiernan is the only one of those four to have commanded a transfer fee, costing around £200,000, with a bid reported to have been turned down by Wigan Athletic for his former team-mate James Tavernier.

Jason Holt and John Eustace are currently on trial with Warburton stating that he is "close on three or four players", but the Rangers manager has branded his current squad "really good" and insists he would happy to start the season tomorrow with the team he currently has.

"Every player we have gone for so far, we have secured," he said. "That is the basic fact. We have not lost a player and it is great to have received that level of support.

"The level of support and backing has been good and our job in the football department is to make sure we go to the powers-that-be with players who represent and offer value. If we go there with short-term fixes, that is never going to be the right thing to do.

"We wouldn't last here if that was the case.

"It is always about quality and not quantity. If I can't get any of the right players, we are happy with what we have got. We have a really good squad with outstanding work ethic and commitment.

"I would say to the fans: 'Judge us later.' I hope they will see some differences in what we are trying to do.

"Like any job, we want people to be patient with us."

Rangers have lacked a real marquee signing to mark the era of Warburton as manager and Dave King as chairman, but the feeling is that will have to wait. Warburton has even suggested that he worries bringing in a £1million player could disrupt the equilibrium of the dressing room.

"I would ask the supporters to name one Brentford player we brought in," he said. "It's the same thing.

"We run a small squad on a tighter budget. Our job is to get value for money.

"If you spend £1m or £2m, it doesn't mean you get value for money in terms of the playing squad.

"If I put the case forward that it was the right thing to do, great. Again, you have to think about words like 'harmony' and 'unity' within the squad. I am a big supporter of that and we build our season around those type of attributes.

"To have that, you have got to make sure it is a happy dressing room. You have to make sure everyone is happy and understands where they stand."

Warburton has also been speaking to a number of English clubs about loan deals with the Tottenham Hotspur pair Harry Winks and Ryan Fredericks having been mentioned.

"We have some good links," he said. "We will use the loan market as and when we want or need to, but I'm not going to a loan player if we can go to Craig Mulholland in youth development and take our own players."