RANGERS made it eight games unbeaten with a 3-0 win at Ross County on Sunday.
But manager Philippe Clement was quick to temper expectations for the coming week which will see Rangers take on Tottenham and Celtic.
The Gers boss claimed his side will need to approach the matches differently due to the financial disparity between the Ibrox club and their two opponents.
He said: "They are totally different kind of games, maybe we need to say financially out of our league, the two games.
"We're going to compete and it's a really nice challenge for our squad to show themselves in these games and what we can do against those teams."
The Belgian was bashed by former Scotland international James McFadden for the defeatist nature of his comments.
And now former Rangers star Andy Halliday has joined the criticism coming Clement's way.
Speaking on Clyde 1 Superscoreboard, Motherwell ace Halliday explained his issue with the message that Clement's attitude was sending to his players.
Halliday said: "I don't go along with it, especially when, five days previously at the AGM, you're talking about building this winning mentality and you're expecting to win trophies and win every single week.
"Then in the post-match against Ross County you're talking about a financial gulf.
"One thing I've learned is, if you give footballers any excuse, believe me they'll take it.
"I think you've already planted a little seed of doubt, 'we're coming up against teams on Thursday and Sunday that have got a lot more money than us', so it wasn't a comment that I particularly liked."
Host Gordon Duncan speculated that supporters could be angered by the Belgian grouping Celtic alongside Tottenham in terms of the financial distance between them and Rangers.
He said: "Is the bit that's sticking in some throats that, even though you're being accurate in saying Celtic have more money, they aren't in a different stratosphere?
"We're not talking English Premier League vs Rangers or Rangers vs Ross County, we're talking about a team that's just financially in better health."
Halliday replied: "Well, the different stratospheres that you're talking about is against Hearts who Rangers have drawn 0-0 with and Aberdeen who Rangers lost to.
"Managers will sometimes come out with this when it suits them, but when you come up against Celtic at the weekend, I don't think they're worlds apart."