Alan Stubbs says Rangers boss Mark Warburton's job is 'easy'

Hibernian manager Alan Stubbs has claimed his counterpart Mark Warburton's job at Rangers is 'very easy' because he has been given money to spend on his team.

The Ibrox side are the early Scottish Championship leaders after convincing 3-1 and 5-1 wins over St Mirren and Alloa in their first two games.

Hibs, meanwhile, are three points behind Rangers after they followed up an opening-day loss to Dumbarton with a narrow 1-0 win against Morton at the weekend.

The teams meet at Ibrox on Sunday in the league and Stubbs' comments ahead of the game are likely to add to the rivalry between the two clubs.

Hibernian refused to sell their prize asset Scott Allan – a boyhood Rangers fan - to the Glasgow side this summer and rejected three bids for him from Warburton.

The player submitted a transfer request in order to push through a move but the Easter Road outfit maintained they would not sell to their main title rivals.

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They later agreed a deal for Allan to go to Celtic on a four-year deal instead, with the player then claiming his allegiance to their city rivals had been exaggerated.

Rangers beat Hibs to a place in the Scottish Premiership final last season even though their team was thought by supporters to be the weakest the club had had for a number of years.

Warburton has been tasked with a huge rebuilding job since then and, having lost 17 players in total from last term's squad, has brought in 10 new senior players on permanent and loan deals.

The former Brentford boss has a 100 per cent record so far having seen his team score 17 times in four games.

The first of those victories was a 6-2 Petrofac Cup success against Hibs, during which Rangers scored four times in the second half to seal victory.

Stubbs, however, has played down Warburton's achievements and believes he has been able to make his mark due to having more money to spend on players than he has had to use in Edinburgh.

The former Everton defender told Hibs TV: "It's very easy when you've got money to spend to bring in much better players than what was there at the start.

"Rangers have started the season strongly, they've started well. When you buy good players, which they've obviously brought in, sometimes it does not necessarily take a long a time (to gel).

"Compared to where they are last season to now, it is a transformation of the squad but they've spent a lot of money as well.

"Their start to the season has been very strong - there is no denying that - and we've seen from their second half performance against us that when things go their way, they can be a dangerous team.

"But for the first 45 minutes, if anyone looks at the game, we showed we can be a dangerous team as well.

"I think the most important thing is that we perform and play to the best of our abilities. If we do that then we know we're capable of getting a result."