Clement fired the latest – how close the Rangers boss is to the chop

Ibrox Noise is aware that another Rangers website has recently inserted the word ‘sack’ into almost all headlines relating to manager Philippe Clement as an easy way to drive traffic.

With the current boss certainly under pressure following the farce in the northit’s a simple way to attract punters to your content, with the dramatic word “bag” in almost every headline. We suspect, of course, that we are guilty of the same thing with our title, but then how many other ways can you put “sack” in this context!

And in all fairness, Clement has never been closer to losing his job than he is now – his popularity among fans is now completely non-existent, with many misguided souls fully backing him until the latest Old Firm game, a poll Ibrox Noise. proved that 90%+ believed in him by that point.

This dropped after this loss to around 76%, and currently, following the loss of Killie and Aberdeenit completely collapsed to about 10%.

Clement is now deeply unpopular, with most posts from Rangers being met with hostile responses from fans calling for him to go.

So how much of this malaise is really his fault?

Many fans still pin him on the ‘tablet’ and Ibrox Noise aren’t big fans of the suits now either, especially considering the only two we liked, James Bisgrove and John Bennett, have moved on.

But this current board did not appoint Clement, and while some of the non-executives advised him during the recruitment process, Rangers have had such a turnover of board members that it is extremely difficult to know who is who and who is who.

Graeme Park is the target of many fans these days as he represents an era the support want to escape from in the Park dynasty. Indeed, Ibrox Noise agrees, the Park family should quit Rangers now, but sadly Park senior is still using the club for his own business interests. This is something else Ibrox Noise said during the fiasco, but back then the fans supported everything and anything Park did. Ah, changed times!

But this escapes Clement’s basic shortcomings. As much as we can blame the board for this and that, Clement still received £16m this summer and did very little with it, along with his new partner Nils Koppen.

These guys signed players like Silva, Diomande, Igamane, Nsiala, Propper, Jefte and a few others – these guys didn’t work at all except for some fans who think Jefte wasn’t as bad as we feared.

The successes? Barron, Cerny, Kasanwirjo (maybe) and Bajrami (probably).

The fact that four players from the 11 have settled, although Liam Kelly has been overlooked as expected, is a damning indictment of recruitment.

But then there is the management itself. Weird team selections, bad substitutions, bad tactics, directionless football, soulless structure and his absolutely absurd comments in the press have largely led to Rangers’ decline.

Clement, amazingly, was worse for Rangers than Michael Beale.

But realistically, firing him is hard, and not just the cost.

Rangers don’t want to go through that many managers – we’ve had a conveyor belt of bosses since 2011, more since then than our entire history. It was absurd.

But then I named (mostly) the wrong bosses. Only two of us are right – Gerrard and Gio. And we didn’t support them properly – Gerrard yes, until after 55 then he stopped and left, Gio not at all. I gave him Aaron Ramsey and Maciej Zukowski!

So what do you do – fire another one and hope you finally get around to landing the right one?

Rangers are really in a quandary now – there doesn’t seem to be an obvious plan, and if there is one, it doesn’t please the supporters very much and is a ‘long game’ risk.

For now, Clement keeps his job, but even if we reach the cup on Sunday, we’re not sure he’ll be relieved of his duties.

After those financial losses in the accounts (soon we will have a report on that) we just don’t think we can afford it.

This is why we need the man to resign.