THE prices for players in their prime could well be prohibitive. But Richard Gough believes Rangers can still build a title winning team by shopping at opposite ends of the transfer market this summer.

Ibrox boss Steven Gerrard has already added Jordan Jones and Jake Hastie to his squad for next term, while Steven Davis has signed a deal to extend his second stay in Light Blue after returning from Southampton in January.

There will be no major overhaul of the Gers squad in the coming months as Gerrard looks to add a handful of quality players to key areas ahead of his second shot at the Premiership title.

The market, and the game, has changed considerably and is now unrecognisable to the days when Gough made his own move to Ibrox under Graeme Souness.

Gerrard will once again be backed by the Light Blues board for his third window of wheeling and dealing this summer.

But nine-in-a-row legend Gough reckons Gerrard will need a bit of luck when it comes to getting the right players are the right price.

Gough said: “I look back to thirty years ago, and I know it is a different time, and I came up as captain of Tottenham Hotspur to Glasgow Rangers.

“Terry Butcher is here, Chris Woods is here, they are regulars for England. That can never happen now.

“The problems that the Old Firm have got is that the top quality players aren’t going to come to Scotland, even if it is playing for Rangers or Celtic.

“So if you can get someone like Steven Davis or Jermain Defoe, nearer the end of their careers, to come in and do a bit, then brilliant.

“Or, you go the other way, like Celtic did, and you get a Moussa Demble for £1million, or like Alfredo Morelos for £1million.

“You have to be lucky when you are in that market, you are taking more of a gamble.

“When I came up from Tottenham, with so many years and so many Scotland caps behind me, I wasn’t a gamble.

“Rangers paid a lot of money for me, but I wasn’t a gamble, I had a pedigree behind me. Rangers can’t go and buy £20million players because they don’t want to play in Scotland, so they have to go either for quality players at the end of their careers and get a couple of years out of them or take a gamble on a younger one.

“You would rather have a couple of bits of quality rather than six players that won’t get into the team. So how is he going to get two or three players into that squad that are better than what is there, without paying a lot of money for them? That is a problem.

“He has got a good team and they will get better next season.”