Rangers are in the record books for all the wrong reasons because of their poor performance in the European competition.
They finished fourth in a brutal group.
Rangers have been last in 11 group campaigns before.
It's the first time in the history of the competition that a Scottish side has suffered six successive group losses and the goal difference is the worst.
After Scott Arfield had the chance to score the first goal, the home defeat was a club record.
Steven Thompson said on the radio that they had looked lost. The club has a European record.
Rangers should have been more competitive despite the financial gap. Rangers have to put this campaign behind them, because they lost all six games in a row.
Europe is supposed to be a reward for the hard work put in by the team that made it all the way to the final.
The Rangers were in a penalty shoot-out. The unforgiving nature of the competition is shown by the fact that Group A rivals are both from two pots.
The resources available at Ibrox are vastly different due to the spending power of those two.
It also felt like it to them. Having lost several key players to richer rivals, they are limping into the Europa League with only two wins to their name.
It doesn't look like things will get any easier for Rangers if they return to Europe's top table following a series of one-sided losses.
A Scottish club is never going to close the gap on the big-spending elite as the club's form book shows.
The manager said that they operated on the highest level after twelve years. You will struggle against any team if you aren't in the right position. We have to learn
It's not true that we struck gold with so many millions of people in attendance. I don't think the club will spend a lot of money if the money isn't there.
"We can compete with them on the day and especially at Ibrox", Van Bronckhorst had said before the home loss to Ajax.
Even taking into account the huge step up in class and a long injury list, displays have not been up to par.
Ally said the performance was not aggressive enough. Rangers sat back against a team that was better than them. Rangers didn't have a chance at them and allowed them to relax.
"There's no positives because I don't see the learning," said Foster, a former full-back. Runners in behind are not being tracked.
The quality of the team that I watched play in the final of theEuropa League is very high.
The lead was given to Rangers by Joe Aribo, while Calvin Bassey was the star of the run to Sevilla. The two were sold in the summer.
New recruits are either injured or not looked up to, with the exception of Antonio Colak, who scored in both legs of the play-off against PSV.
Bassey was a £20 million player in his first season at I Rangers.
Ryan Kent and Alfredo Morelos should not have been allowed to linger into the last year of their contracts.
Morelos, the club-record scorer of 27 European goals, somehow contrived to miss an open goal as a second-half substitute, while Kent, an influential, marauding figure, was peripheral once again.
The kind of fashion that swept Aberdeen away at the weekend is what Van Bronckhorst hopes his team can respond to.
He said that they need to switch back to the league and try to win some silverware. This season is over for Europe. And how, too.
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