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Barry Ferguson has asked to be judged one game at a time during his Ibrox reign. The next match for Rangers’ caretaker manager is the first leg of the Europa League tie against Fenerbahce in Istanbul on Thursday night.

That’s Ferguson coming up against the legend that is Jose Mourinho. The same Mourinho who has won five European trophies as a manager and 10 league titles with clubs in four different countries. The Special One against the Only One, you might think. The Only One because Ferguson is having to contradict, on a match-by-match basis, the notion that his availability was a more powerful argument than his suitability when Rangers decided a new man was needed.

The change had become an emergency response after Philippe Clement’s continued inefficiency could no longer be tolerated by the club or its supporters. It’s an appointment that appears to be more about who Barry is rather than what he is when it came to managerial credentials.

Thursday night in Turkey will only be Ferguson’s third match in charge of a full-time team, having cut his managerial teeth in part-time surroundings at Clyde, Kelty Hearts and Alloa Athletic.

But he will nevertheless be expected to become a serious man for serious times. And if he succeeds in getting a win, or even a draw, against Mourinho’s team, his credibility will go through the roof. And yet it might not be enough to guarantee Ferguson a job at Ibrox on a permanent basis because Rangers are currently a club in a state of suspended animation.

The root-and-branch review taking place to establish why even the manager’s job has become the least of Rangers’ worries might be thought of as a report card to be shown to those who are needed to progress the club from their presently parlous state to a healthier standing.