Ianis Hagi insists Rangers belong at Champions League level despite punishing group stage chasing last year
dailyrecord.co.ukRangers’ punishing experience in the Champions League last season has many – including some of their own fans – believing the Europa League is their level.By that metric, a defeat to PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League play-off and a place in the group stages of the second tier competition wouldn’t be the end of the world.
But try asking Ianis Hagi if that’s a fair assessment.The Champions League is where Michael Beale’s team belongs and where it wants to be.
Last season’s traumas against Liverpool, Napoli and Ajax are in the past and it’s all about the future with this new-look group the manager has assembled in the summer.
That’s the Romanian’s take on the situation and it’s clear that having been forced to sit and watch the horror show unfold last term, the attacker – now fully recovered from the ACL injury that cost him almost 18 months of his career - is desperate to play his part.He didn’t look pleased at having to settle for a half hour’s run-out as a substitute on Saturday as a Rangers side with eight changes stumbled past Morton in the Viaplay Cup.
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