Philippe Clement is assured he’ll retain the backing of the Rangers board amid rising stress at Ibrox.
The Belgian signed a contract extension in August that tied him to the membership till the summer season of 2028, however his future is topic to growing hypothesis after Rangers’ 2-1 defeat to Aberdeen left them 9 factors behind Celtic and Aberdeen within the Scottish Premiership title race.
The plight of Clement, who joined the membership in October 2023, provides to the sense of turmoil as Rangers function and not using a everlasting chairman, chief government and director of soccer whereas revealing they made a web lack of £17.2m final season.
Forward of the League Cup semi-final in opposition to Motherwell at Hampden Park on Sunday, the place the winners will face both Celtic or Aberdeen within the ultimate, Clement was requested how assured he’s that folks above him within the membership will
place confidence in him even when outcomes don’t flip round immediately.
He mentioned: “I am very assured about that, as a result of that was additionally the actually clear message [from the board] to step in, a narrative for long run.
“They knew all the pieces in regards to the [financial] numbers, about what was obligatory, and I do not need to repeat all these items. I feel I’ve mentioned it sufficient about what penalties it might probably have (Rangers getting into administration in 2012).
“And it is about small margins, like final season, taking these margins and making it higher, higher once more.
“Last season, we turned it around in a really short period in that way.
“I am satisfied that may occur now additionally. However, in fact, I want we took the victory in Aberdeen, that may have been the large step ahead.
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“We didn’t manage to do that. But I saw a team that tried until the last second of the game, and we had in the last minute, also the header with Tav (James Tavernier) just past the post.
“So it is not that the crew don’t desire or they offer up, or something like that.
“So we’re going to continue fighting to get results our way and to make things better, and for sure, more consistent, to get more football like we saw against Malmo, against FCSB, more regularly.”
Clement’s message to the doubting followers was to stay with him as he tries to get the Govan outfit again on observe.
He mentioned: “I’m going to work really hard on that. I’m going to do the same as I did last season, and the same as I’m doing now.
“And I perform a little bit extra within the membership than that second as a result of there are additionally quite a lot of different issues to do.
“But, for sure, I’m very confident about that. I feel also how the team works, how they were in the meeting today also.
“It is not a crew that does not take duty. They took duty in issues, the workers took duty, I take duty, and all of us go ahead to make issues higher.”
