Murray’s former club announced they would, in line with most major European outfits, be moving away from the traditional scouting-based recruitment model to a more video and data-driven operation back in 2023.

The Glasgow giants reduced the size of their scouting department and started to rely increasingly on companies like StatsBomb, Opta, InStat and Transfer Lab to aid their player identification and performance assessment processes.

Rangers expanded their partnership with Kitman Labs, whose software is used by the likes of Bayer Leverkusen, Chelsea and Liverpool, last year and unified their medical, performance, coaching and talent development data for all of their teams into a single “Intelligence Platform”.

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Murray, who spent seven years as a player in Govan during the Nine-In-A-Row era in the 1980s and 1990s, has worked as an agent, scout and sports consultant since hanging up his boots in 2003. He had a spell as head of recruitment at Rangers between 2011 and 2013.

He can appreciate why most clubs are no longer relying on one individual’s network of contacts – an outdated system which could be exploited by player representatives and often led...