Does Philippe Clement never learn?
In spite of being widely ridiculed by mouthbuting the goal to the goal after being unarmed in a 3-0 hammer in the first game of the old season of the season in Parkhead, he did it again after the catastrophe of the Scottish Cup last weekend at the hands of Queen's Park.
Now, to worsen things, this loss has led to spiders as a “strange” result. Listen, the only strange thing about what happened in Ibrox last Sunday and what has been developed since the Belgian is still in a job. That the unfortunate crowd of hidden champions passing through the Board of Directors of the Rangers still believe that it is acceptable to continue independently.
Strange results are not the problem with Clemente. It is a one -year -old calamities streak, and ridiculous excuses for them, which dates back to a defeat at the home against Motherwell at the beginning of last March that has made it crystalline for all those who are not those of above in Ibrox that this is A completely wrong movie guy.
Clement and his team had the title of the Premier League, and approximately £ 40 million from the automatic entrance to the Champions League, in the palm of his hand last year and flew to stumble at home on the side of the park, drawing to Dureee and losing to Ross Condado.
They obtained a second bite in the cherry when they face a desperately mediocre Kyiv Kyiv in the qualifiers of this term for the upper European football tournament and fell back into their faces.
Philippe Clement has presided over the worst result of the Rangers, but still believes that he is the man of work
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They have won four games of 12 away from home in the league and are behind the stele of Celtic. The national campaign is as dead as a Dodo in mid -February. It does not matter all expenses and waste without brain that the Board has been responsible for the years, it is madness that any manager of the Rangers can survive in these circumstances.
If once a week showed how low the standards have fallen in the club, how failure and low performance are being accepted, it is this. It is difficult to know who has left that: Clement or recently appointed CEO Patrick Stewart.
When the director at once, John Gilligan returned last year for a brief spell as an interim president, declared that the Board had to take part to the manager. They acknowledged that it was not fair to push it, in front and the center, week after week, to answer questions about clubs and businesses that are possibly even more heartbreaking than the first team.
Too much for that plan. Rangers' fans were desperate to know those in charge of this week, after the worst defeat in the club's history, and they did not get anything. Full silence. Only more than Clemente showing that really, he really doesn't understand it.
On Thursday, the minutes of a meeting between Stewart, other members of the Management and the Advisory Board of Fanters of the Rangers Cayeron. Let's say they didn't inspire much confidence in the new CEO either.
At that meeting with representatives of supporters, he was asked about the review of the football department he announced five weeks ago. The answers did not trigger any fireworks. Or even provide any type of detail.
The short -term objectives for the Single Executive Director of Manchester United seem to extend little more than conclude the review, 'Preparation for the summer transfer window', classify finance and prepare for the renovations of seasonal tickets. In other words, nothing more than the bleeding obvious.
As if that were not disappointing enough, it did not seem to list long -term objectives, claiming that “these will be specifically informed by current strategic reviews within the club.”
The executive president of the Rangers, Patrick Stewart, has not won many skeptics with their silence
Robin propper hid his face during Ibrox's horror exhibition, but, really, everything in blue disappeared
From Stewart, the minutes of the FAB meeting declared: “It is a priority for him and the leadership team establish a clear strategy for the club before the end of the season.”
Before the end of the season? It has already been in the building for two months. Glaciers move faster than this.
In truth, all about bringing external consultants felt, from the beginning, as Stewart kicking the can along the way and buying time.
Since then, there has been little to suggest that it will go through the place as a dose of the salts. No sign of any of the dynamism of leadership positions that the rangers need so desperately.
Thought for its absence after Queen Park, Stewart has certainly made few favors. When he arrived for the first time, the Rangers fans expected it to be the breath of fresh air that was needed for the club to be straight and narrow again.
Fear now is that he is just a man of 'yes' for those above, those responsible for the absolute state in which the place is.
Of course, the longer this is prolonged, with Clement still in situ and nothing happens behind the scene until the consultants have finished looking under the hood, the more toxic the atmosphere around the rangers will be.
Clement received some verbs outside Ibrox after Queen's Park game. This has led to a collective hand launch in the air in some sectors. How people dare to say Hurty's words to the manager.
Clemente looks more and more looked haunted the more time his ibrox torture is dragged
However, what really do they expect? This is football. These people are paying good money to support their team and not get anything in return. The Board, for a long time, has taken them to the fools and maintaining this particular manager in its place feels almost like a provocation.
While the current state of inertia continues, this anger will only continue to grow. We like or grouping it, those are the rules of this particular game, a fact discussed in the most insightful way by the Motherwell Full Back Stephen O'Donnell after his boss in Firm . month.
“I've had eggs thrown into my window,” he said. 'It is part and package. I do not like to say that because it should not be the case, but I enrolled in it and my children are too young to really understand it.
'Only I try to work hard and get out of the other end. I know that, in football, if you start working well or better, it disappears and becomes positive. ''
However, it will not become positive for Clemente. He is too far under him in Ibrox. He is the wrong man for that particular work and has to leave. Everyone can see that.
The problem is that Stewart, the guy he brought to fix things, is beginning to similarly resemble another great appointment that does not have an adequate handle of what is required.
It is too far under Clemente in Ibrox, but Stewart is beginning to resemble another great appointment that does not have an adequate handle of what is required
Let's not have all the mists on Cathro and Macphee
These are auspicious times for former Heart Manager Ian Cathro and his former Tynecastle No 2 Austin Macphee.
Macphee, of course, has just achieved a plum role as a pieces for the national team of Portugal to fit her daily work in Aston Villa's staff.
The fact that he has not returned to the configuration of the national team of Scotland after leaving in the wake of the 2024 Eurocup Little more significant than the national coach leaves.
Whatever, let's hope that their time with the Portuguese will be more successful than their previous period as a dead ball guru in the international arena with Clarke and company
UEFA official statistics show that Scotland had 53 free throws during the 2024 Eurocup. Unless the old mind cheated, the only one who delivered something substantial was a Andy Robertson Ball that Grant Hanley addressed the position against Switzerland.
The former colleague Cathro of Macphee has also received acclaim this week. Having taken Estoril to five consecutive victories in the Primeira League of Portugal, he was voted manager of the month by his teammates.
This has led to melancholic questions here and there. Were the hearts too fast to call time in his reign as a boss after only seven months in 2017? Did Scottish football misinterpret him? Was it a man before his time?
The answer, in all aspects, of course, is no. I should never have been in that work in a month of Sundays, but we want good luck, anyway, in doing so as a manager for the second time.
Ian Cathro was the wrong man at the wrong work at the wrong time when he was in charge of hearts
Austin Macphee (right) moved from Steve Clarke and will assume a role with Portugal
Brendan Rodgers needs to spend big so that Celtic has some hope of going further next year
Rodgers has earned the right to splash a great cash
Whatever happens in Munich on Tuesday night, and, let's be sincere, it will end at Bayern going to the last 16 of the Champions League, this has been a European campaign more than satisfactory for Celtic and the manager Brendan Rodgers.
Reaching the play-off round always looked like a realistic ambition, but getting there with a victory of declaration on RB Leipzig and a back raffle in Atalanta were real bonds.
After more than a decade of shame about the shame in the UEFA competition, Celtic has traveled a long road to the restoration of his reputation this season.
The last 16 of the Superior Tournament in Europe would have been a real, appropriate success, which hits its success, but there is much you can do when a diabolical drawing matches you with the Bayern in the play-offs.
Progress has been done without a doubt. Rodgers has done everything he asked. The team, as shown when passing against the leaders of the Bundesliga despite being surpassed in the first half and escaping with a loss of 2-1 in the first leg, has lacked a recovery capacity.
The Board can question the value of investing dozens of millions more when this can be its roof at the upper level and the domestic scene is a walk through the park, but now they cannot stop.
Rodgers has earned the right to demand a serious support in the summer. He certainly does not deserve another window as disappointing as January. In fact, I should not defend it.