Scottish giants, Rangers, on Sunday mentioned that they had sacked under-fire teacher, Philippe Clement, within the aftermath of Saturday’s embarrassing 2-0 defeat towards St Mirren.
Clement, 50, were dealing with mounting force right through a depressing marketing campaign and the Scottish Premiership membership has now put the Belgian out of his distress nearest lower than two years in fee at Ibrox.
“Rangers Football Club can confirm it has tonight parted company with men’s first-team manager, Philippe Clement,” a membership remark mentioned.
“The club would like to put on record their sincere thanks to Philippe for his hard work and dedication during his spell in charge. A further update from the club will follow in due course.”
Rangers’ humiliating Scottish Cup walk towards 2d tier Queen’s Landscape two weeks in the past left Clement in a determined combat to steer clear of the awl.
However a primary loss to St Mirren at Ibrox since 1991 proved to be the general straw for the Rangers board amid rising fan unrest.
Former Membership Brugge and Monaco boss Clement described the show towards St Mirren as “by far the worst I’ve seen in all the time I’ve been here”.
Clement succeeded Michael Beale in October 2023 and led Rangers to League Cup glory two months nearest his appointment.
He additionally in brief hauled them into identify competition ultimate season, however they ultimately completed 8 issues adrift of Celtic and he used to be not able to recapture the promising method of his early months within the process.
2nd-placed Rangers are recently 13 issues adrift of top-flight leaders Celtic, who beat their Glasgow competitors within the Scottish League Cup ultimate previous this season.
Clement’s dismissal got here nearest stories claimed Rangers are in complex talks a few multi-million funding from a USA-led consortium which contains Paraag Marathe, president of 49ers Enterprises and chairman of Championship leaders Leeds.
AFP