Rangers have been dealt a major blow ahead of their second leg UEFA Champions League qualifier with Panathinaikos this Wednesday.
The club departed this morning to Athens ahead of the match against the 20-times Greek champions but were without some notable players.
Jose Cifuentes, Ben Davies, Ross McCausland, Clinton Nsiala, Ridvan Yilmaz and Rabbi Matondo are all unregistered and haven’t made the squad.
Mason Munn has also departed the club on a season-long loan to Dunfermline Athletic and is not with the team.
However, the biggest name absentee is Thelo Aasgaard.
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The Norwegian international joined the club this summer from Luton Town and was seen training on the Ibrox turf ahead of our friendly with Club Brugge.
However, he did not feature that match and made his debut in a behind-closed-doors friendly with Neil Lennon’s Dunfermline.
This knock kept him out of the friendly match with Middlesbrough as well as last Tuesday's first leg against the Greeks.
He was however, named in the European squad prior to the first leg for these two matches and was not removed, suggesting he was close to fitness.
But his absence from the travelling contingent shows that his injury is more severe than first anticipated and he will not play any part in the tie.
He has been training today at the Rangers Training Centre on his own as he looks to try and regain fitness ahead of our league opener away to Motherwell this weekend.
Hopefully we see him at Fir Park or shortly after and this does not turn into another 7-10 days akin to Jordan Rossiter.
Aasgaard is a key component in how new head coach Russell Martin is looking to play this year as we enter our new era, and the quicker the Norwegian is fit, the quicker we see the full capabilities of not just him, but our full team.
Hamza Igamane has travelled with the squad despite not training ahead of the team's departure.
Dujon Sterling has also not travelled as he remains a long term injury casualty.