IN his previous career and his current one, Mark Warburton has seen stocks rise and fall. His has been on an upward trajectory for some time and the progression, he hopes, will continue in that direction for some time yet at Rangers.

Warburton collected a second successive Championship Manager of the Month award yesterday and was again joined by one of his players, Martyn Waghorn following James Tavernier’s lead and taking home the prize for September.

With nine wins out of nine in the second tier, Warburton has already taken Rangers into a commanding position in the title race, the new look Light Blues combining style with substance as they have made an impressive start to the campaign. The 53-year-old built a reputation as one of the brightest up and coming managers in the English game during his time with Brentford and has made a successful start to life at Ibrox.

The odds of him becoming the next Liverpool manager are far longer than the 100/1 being offered by some bookies, and Warburton, who is also 25/1 to be named Sunderland boss, laughed off the links as he collected his silverware at Murray Park. But, like any players who shine in Scotland, Warburton, and assistant David Weir, would come back on the radar of clubs in England should he continue in the manner he is and achieve his ultimate aims at Ibrox.

With the managerial merry-go-round spinning at considerable speed, Warburton knows fortunes can quickly change, dreams can be made or shattered. The visit of Queen of the South next weekend is next on the Gers’ agenda, but the ambitious Englishman continues to strive for bigger successes on bigger stages.

“Don’t forget the industry we are in,” Warburton said. “The average tenure down south was eight months. At one stage I was the fifth longest serving manager at Brentford. That is how bizarre it is.

“My reference to that is because we have to do well here. The targets are really clear here.

“Sometimes you don’t have the choice about whether you stay or not it is about you having a clear job to do. We know what we have to do to be successful here. That is our only aim here to be successful here as quickly as possible.

“I’m sure you could write down what the long-term plans for Rangers would be. That is my job. As long as I am Rangers manager my job is to take this club as high and as quickly as possible. Anyone in any industry, not just football, I’ve got that in mind to be the best I can be, and David too.

“How high can we go? If we can go Champions League with Rangers, fantastic. There’s not much higher. But you can’t start worrying about other things or planning too far ahead. Right now the only focus in this job is the next game. It has to be that way, otherwise the media will be very harsh.”

Warburton and Weir are not the only arrivals at Ibrox to have enhanced their reputations in the last few months. The likes of Waghorn and Tavernier have been instrumental thus far, while Gedion Zelalem and Nathan Oduwa, on loan from Arsenal and Tottenham respectively, have made the most of their chance to impress.

It was a compliment to Warburton’s reputation and methods that he was able to bring the pair to Glasgow this summer and the lines of communication to London are open on a regular basis.

“That dialogue is important and, hopefully, they’re happy with how they’re being looked after,” Warburton said. “If they were just average, run-of-the-mill players then why would I even mention their environment? They are prized assets so we have to get it right.

“If the pitches were poor here, if we were playing a different style of football, if the food isn’t up to scratch or the medical care is below par – we won’t get those players. It’s as simple as that. You want the feedback from those players to be positive so that when they return from Rangers they’ve progressed – there’s no point in them going back as the same player.”