CELTIC hero Chris Sutton says Russell Martin looks “a bit desperate” after he “machine gunned the dressing room” on day one of the new season.
In his league debut, the Rangers boss didn’t hold back in his post-match interview after their 1-1 draw with Motherwell.
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He described the performance as “extremely disappointing” and urged some of his players to “drop their egos”.
It’s as he conceded they were lucky to get a point in the Premiership curtain raiser at Fir Park.
After the game he blasted his players and Sutton says he’s never seen it happen so early in the season.
He told Sky Sports: “He understands he has to win.
“He’s gone a bit early with this, but it’s a bit desperate.
“The first game of the season, he is easing himself in but to absolutely machine gun the dressing room the way that he did.
“He sees them everyday in training, he must think they are rank rotten because why wouldn’t there be a bit more balance there.”
Rangers opened the scoring through James Tavernier, but Motherwell got the point their play deserved when Emmanuel Longelo levelled late on.
Sutton added: “When have you ever seen a manager come out and fillet the team on the first day of the season.
“Everybody tells you it’s been wonderful in pre-season but now the season has started he has to win, but that was extreme.”
Former Rangers striker and SunSport columnist Kris Boyd was also a pundit for the Sky game and gave his post match thoughts.
Boyd said it was “alarming” to hear Martin call out his players so early on.
He added: “The opening day of the season, it’s got to be a lot better than that.
“There’s a real lack of pace in that frontline.
“And they never really created anything until Motherwell scored.
“It’s got to get a lot better from Rangers, there’s no getting away with from it.
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“That’s three seasons in a row they’ve failed to win on the opening day.
“There are still players that are going to have to come in that are better than the ones already here because that – especially second half – was nowhere near good enough.”
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