Kris Boyd insists Rangers CAN keep churning managers until they find the right appointment.
Under-fire Philippe Clement is clinging onto his job at Ibrox after watching his flops crash to one of the biggest upsets in Scottish Cup history at home to Queen’s Park. The Belgian has lost the backing of the vast majority of Gers fans, who are demanding change as they stare at yet another trophyless season, with bitter rivals Celtic on course for a world record-extending ninth Treble.
Previous chairman John Bennett surprisingly handed Clement an extended contract at the start of the campaign as a show of commitment after vowing to “end the years of rinse and repeat”, a damaging managerial cycle that has seen Gio van Bronckhorst and Michael Beale sacked. But Boyd has rubbished claims that Clement deserves more time in the hot seat as a result of mismanagement in years gone by.
He told the Warm-Up show: “I’m not buying into this myth, to be honest. Everyone’s saying you can’t keep changing managers… but you have to until you get the right one. People forget, Rangers at one point last year were favourites to win the league and managed to mess it up.
“There’s been an overhaul recently because they had to cut back. If you can look at the manager and say there’s players improving, then carry on. But as it stands right now, I don’t see that. I see a team that’s struggling, I see a team that’s lacking identity.
“You’re hoping something’s going to happen… at Rangers and Celtic you go onto the pitch and make things happen. You force the opposition. I don’t see that at Rangers. I just see hoping that something’s going to happen.”