01 Nov 2024 16:15:34
From Tom English, BBC website:-
"In the dog days of early season, after Dynamo Kyiv had put them out of the Champions League and Celtic had put them to the sword in the Premiership, a senior figure at Rangers spoke about the importance of backing Philippe Clement.
The gist was this: Clement had proven himself to be a competent manager in his first season and would get the time he needed to rebuild his team, no matter the heat that came from supporters if things got bumpy on the road, no matter if Celtic won the league this season and next.
There would be no knee-jerk reaction, no continuation of the short-lived spells of Giovanni van Bronckhorst and Michael Beale, no throwing good money after bad in a frenzied pursuit of their city rivals.
As they strived to create a financially self-sufficient club, a functioning player-trading model and a bright new team on the park, they would put their foot on the ball and show patience."
Not sure how truthful or reliable the source is.
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01 Nov 2024 16:55:38
If (emphasis on If) this is true, then our incompetent board are playing a very dangerous game.
As much as I can't stand English, it wouldn't surprise me if one of our overly arrogant bloatd members would come out with something like this.
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01 Nov 2024 17:20:23
Complete insanity giving Clement a new contract in the summer.
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01 Nov 2024 17:27:41
Thats playing with fire. I think that mentality will burn more bridges than build them with the fans.
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01 Nov 2024 17:36:53
I think there are 2 major factors about how much truth is in this story for me.
A- Tom English
B- BBC
Both hate Rangers and both love telling lies so the simple maths of A+B=💩.
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01 Nov 2024 17:38:49
It's absolutely crazy how nobody really understands how bad the situation financially at the club is and the drastic steps needed to stop us going under again. I wish they'd have just come out and said it black and white at the start of the season. Winning 55 was not done at all sustainably. That's no excuse that's just reality. The players are buckling under the pressure because of this, since day 1 of the season folk had started jeering. Who wants to perform under that? It'll suck the life out of them. It's such a grim fure cycle we've been stuck in and the reality is it's going to be a horrible and painful season and I absolutely hate that but hopefully a season that changed the future for the club.
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01 Nov 2024 17:58:26
Threecheers - maybe if I'd had a maths teacher like you at school i wouldn't have got a foundation cert!
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01 Nov 2024 18:05:32
Makes perfect sense.
Stick to the model, stop chasing Celtic until we are secure.
It is what it is.
We missed a trick not backing SG, but we are where we are.
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01 Nov 2024 18:47:06
We are where we are. It's painful, frustrating and atm not good enough, but we've no other option. Apparently we are STILL paying for Gvb and Beale? Sacking Clement and his team atm isn't going to happen. We'll need to unfortunately stick with it and hope it gets better soon.
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01 Nov 2024 18:53:18
Problem being there is a new variable to deal with. Aberdeen now 9pts in front. 👍.
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01 Nov 2024 19:07:00
The amount of money we've wasted on ridiculous wages to below average players certainly hasn't helped us financially.
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01 Nov 2024 19:09:04
The board will not allow for us to lose any potential champions League money. That would be akin to criminal negligence.
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01 Nov 2024 19:31:33
Rabbi - Good post - we rewarded those who stopped the Terry Munro but now to a cost - but also it must be noted that Sir Alex was basically out on his ear at Man Utd many moons ago and not that I compare the two managers nor teams but circumstances are extremely tough at the moment and yes I don't like some nonsense big Phil spouts but changing a manager every year will eventually kill us again - THIS CANNOT HAPPEN -my gut feeling is he will have at least this full season in charge so we need to accept this or just close the Effin doors at Ibrox - sometimes better the devil you know - and come on its obvious the cards he has been dealt are way from the bottom of the pack!
We still need Tavernier (along with few more) gone to further reduce wages and errors and get a REAL captain in the building IMHO.
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01 Nov 2024 19:42:42
Much as I hate English, what he says is pretty much the truth and it wasn`t anybody telling him something on the fly . What he is quoting is more or less what Bennett said in his presser about the Copland delay, he spoke about cost cutting, huge losses and the need to stand by the manager who he trusted to put things right. It could only come from him because he was the only person in charge of the club at the time.
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01 Nov 2024 20:00:17
JR SG was backed.
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01 Nov 2024 20:15:22
Sunshine it's the reality of the club though. The club should have just come out clear as day to state how bad things are themselves. Instead even the finances report they tried to put positive spin on it. Because of all this it's created this absolutely toxic atmosphere that the players are buckling in. We now need a loyal to the club but clued up CEO and Chairman to keep us on track. I've been called a happy clapper over and over for stating reality.
I'm not happy at the state of the club it absolutely destroys me but I have seen actions taken now for the future. The appointment of Koppen, the culling of wages, Clement also mentioned today they wanted more out but essentially nobody wanted them. We need stability more than anything else, Clement is risking his whole reputation to steady the ship. However we must finish 2nd and we must finish 2nd convincingly.
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01 Nov 2024 21:30:07
My issue just is the last manager we gave time to was Gerrard who I think we will all agree put together a cracking team but the big failure was not selling players at their peak value. The biggest difference between Gerrard and Clement is that Gerrards team had a direction and style of playing. The team were getting better with every addition. Just now I think the players we've brought in can be developed in to great players but we lack proven experienced winners. We need to either back Clement and bring in those players, wrong decision for me, or we cut him now and start again with yet another new management team.
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01 Nov 2024 22:09:03
I would take the Boydie stance on this that the new deal wouldn’t make a difference his payoff will have been agreed and will be the same … we need to sack him asap….
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01 Nov 2024 22:57:00
The financial mess can be used as an excuse against celtic and Europe but not in comparison with getting played off the park by Aberdeen and Killie and struggling against St mirren. Even with cut backs we still miles ahead of them financially.
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01 Nov 2024 23:54:33
It's all fine and well saying we'll stand our ground and back the manger and we need to do better with player trading.
Now for the reality we're 9 points behind and does anyone think that is going to change any time soon if anything we could go further behind in 3rd.
If we finish 3rd this season we are worse off again.
And as for the player trading who have we signed that looks like we'll make money on?
Cause for me it's nobody diomande has been terrible this season cortes sick note our strikers will leave at a loss we all know this.
Bajrami looks okay but he's not a LW
Young barron looks good but that's not going to get us big money.
Start of the season we could have got 10 million for butland now it looks more like 5 Cause teams will know we are desperate for money.
Player trading only works if teams are winning trophies and playing in the champions league.
Clement is done it's a matter of when not if.
The board are the reason we are in this mess.
Until they are replaced by some other people we as fans will have no trust in anything they do.
Even now if they sacked Clement would you trust them to hire the right manger cause I sure ss hell don't.
I know it's easy to say now but at the time I wanted muscat just because he plays attacking football.
Unfortunately I think that ship has sailed.
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02 Nov 2024 00:30:22
This isn’t one of those times better the devil you know.
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02 Nov 2024 07:46:22
Scottj - Sack the man then repeat - is that the way forward? - who do u suggest then? - its the boards and shambolic leadership of yesteryear who have created this mess - not the man who is carrying the can and has to front up the change that is now FORCED upon our club - Sir Alex was wanted out when results wee poor - Arteta was wanted out, the list goes on. time allowed things to materialise and develop - we want things to happen instantly - how NAIVE and ENTITLED do we actually look and sound at present - NO MAGIC WANDS HERE BOYS - SUPPORT THE CLUB AND PUT THE KNIFES AWAY FOR NOW AT LEAST.
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02 Nov 2024 09:15:06
Blue Floyd the man has no style no game plan nothing he is a horrendous manager in Scotland with us.
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02 Nov 2024 09:43:39
That's exactly the issue Storm - there is no building, no work in progress, no style of play - whether we agree with it or not - there isn't one to agree or disagree with. It's bizarre.
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02 Nov 2024 09:59:12
To go from Cup win last season and whisker of competing for title due to our serial losers bottling it once more - where do you want the club to go Storm? I Understand currently we seem to be up rubbish creek without a paddle but who IS the right man for the job then? - most on here want PC out but who will come in - some want Ally back. Jesus Christ! - our business model/ inept previous boards have put us here so do we want to grow or just keep throwing money at this by having a managerial merrygoround as our norm when we are skint
The supposed great SG had lots more cash to throw around and what did we get - domination - I think NOT - REALISM NEEDS TO BE OUR MANTRA AT MOMENT.
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02 Nov 2024 14:46:30
no sold all tickets for tomorrow, fans no turning up gives the XXXL blazers a right sore melon.
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