Patrick Stewart Confirms Rangers Manager Phillipe Clement Is Here To Stay!!

[@gordonaddie3107]

Genuinely dont know why some of the fans are so shocked at this. Have they seen the financials? We cant afford to sack Clement and his staff and pay them off, its a financial catastrophe and has been for years

[@JamtheGer]

Board are not listening to the support this time round.

[@brianharper9311]

Can put Clement on "gardening leave" like we did with mccoist, can't afford to keep him if players are stagnant or worse regressing under his management...

[@bromion5123]

Maybe. but if we could unload tav and matonda this would free up the money needed to pay off pc.There would be no need to replace these players since they add nothing to the team.

[@JamtheGer]

Steven Gerrard only won ONE trophy outy NINE and it was in his last season and during a pandemic. Why did he get 3 seasons? His name?

[@grantmcroberts4089]

No he got 3 years because there was progression and was playing good football and had us challenging and had us go into a new year at least level with celtic that's why and we knew we were going in the right direction that's why. We accept giving manager time if we actually see progression which this manager is not giving us that's why and Gerrard had about a 80% win ratio destroys clement in every level that's why

[@liamgilchrist8818]

​@@grantmcroberts4089 progress😂😂😂😂😂 we won 2 trebles under Gerrard and st Johnstone got a double🫣

[@JamtheGer]

@grantmcroberts4089 Really? I mind the support wanted him sacked the week before covid hit. Mind Hamilton beat us at home. Amnesia? Or denial?

[@kngjon22]

W

[@wolfenstein6676]

Steven Gerrard brought constant progression to Rangers, every season they got better and better. If you don't see that you're a jackass.

[@colinb394]

Guys this is now embarrassing, the only reason they are not sacking him purely money , we all know we do not have any money to pay him off but he’s definitely not the man to take us forward. He’s clueless playing players out of position , no patterns of play and not structure. This is only delaying the inevitable.

[@Wolfgaiadj]

oh the rangers are skint 🤣

[@KingKennethMacAlpin]

​@spudbeans22 we are skint but you are still a tramp !! Green and grey 😂😂 manky cunts. Not once in my life would I watch a smeltik podcast. 15 points clear still talking about Rangers ! Tramps man

[@35davg]

Stewart said its not a financial reason for not bagging him, he said it, dunno if thats true.

[@OS-19]

No it’s not Colin. Did you not even bother to read the statement?

[@Scotsmaninspain]

Even if we sacked him, a new manager wouldn't turn it around.

[@geraldrae7581]

He accidentally found the formula when we scored lots of goals but reverted back to 4231 then we went downhill that’s scary 😂

[@GOMAROMA]

This is just confirmation we don’t have the cash to sack him & get a new man in!

[@Dean-mp7vg]

@@GOMAROMA or else things are so bad behind the scenes a new manager won’t make a difference until the whole shitshow is fixed

[@Setinmywaysalways]

Stewart cannot understand why they have no money. The biscuit tin / Season Tickets are being Raided by the Parks to shore up their Car and Bus Businesses.

[@chomskybhoy]

Bold claim. Hope the Parks lawyers are watching

[@John-qy9nw]

What evidence or even heresay do you cite to corroborate this claim?

[@Dean-mp7vg]

???

[@CranleyM]

​@@chomskybhoyget off our forum Savile

[@duncanmackintosh9239]

We need more physicality our team is powder puff

[@sandos986]

We can't afford not to sack him 😮

[@juicybear7696]

No, they absolutely can't afford to sack him and pay him

[@edwardkirkwood1640]

The board doesn't care about the fans anymore

[@JamtheGer]

They do care! That's why they are not listening this time.

[@I.B.Rox1962]

I don’t want a January “fix” …money will be better spent in the summer.

[@jackskerry2467]

The bottom line is there’s no serious money to bring in quality players regardless of who comes in.

[@wolfenstein6676]

You've got quality players, it's your manager who's the problem.

[@Stevie163]

This is just a yes man, clement is here to stay and that’s down to the board giving him an extra years contract

[@AdRatherBeAbilly]

Do people not understand the board is ripping pisss out the fans. They don’t care, the proof is in there actions in keeping Clement .

[@stevenmcqueen-z6b]

100% correct a blind man can see that!

[@veritasrising]

In all probability PC doesn't have to care whether the board back him or not. It's his contract that speaks volumes. Nobody is looking at this from a PC perspective. He holds all the cards. He doesn't care and why should he? If the players can't produce the goods, won't matter who the manager is.

[@stevenmcqueen-z6b]

that's where Rangers are at right now

[@Smudger72]

Stewart is a brutal watch and if your more unfortunate a listen..just my opinion.

[@Govanguardians]

As much as i hate him at the moment i think sticking with him will serve us in the long run other than the robin propper signing hes made decent signings

[@AdRatherBeAbilly]

A don’t see what walking out today at 55 minutes does ? So people still go, spend money at the game like pie & bovril etc, thats not hurting board, the stands need to be empty and sit in house OR IT Will NEVER CHANGE, we need to walk away

[@s0mp0p]

Walking away is the rangers way

[@AdRatherBeAbilly]

@ especially if its needed, anyway the faithful through and through has been there hunners, F aff timothy, mind you stay in Britain 🇬🇧 way a British 🇬🇧 passport and a stadium in Britain 🇬🇧 the army & the navy & the UVF 🖕

[@donmacneil547]

Stop watching them if it makes you this unhappy. Who wants to listen to this whining?

[@petershields]

Another yes man to the Parks! get them out! parks have been the constant problem. skint men promoting the buses. Embaressed by Ranger Fc!! same crap this weekend and all season. no more.

[@tommyfindlay]

You can’t invest in a liquidated company ,you’ll never get your investment back 😂😎🍀🍀🍀

[@ScottIrvine-q6m]

He pretends to have skills he doesnt have. We wont have the injuries. We will be fitter.we wont play pointless sideways passes. We will be better in October. Then we have weve had more possession and shots at goal. He should be away. This board have failed us again and will continue to do so.

[@stephenfay4049]

Why do rangers fans expect this board to turn a new leaf and all of a sudden make the right decisions for the club when they have f----d it up for the last four years at least

[@AdRatherBeAbilly]

Sacking manager puts us back 18 months 😂 😂 😂 Having him here has put us back 15 years FFS Deluded Rangers fans still here in club FFS

[@jimmymcgregor3900]

It looks like they don't have the money to terminate his contract and they are gambling on him improving results. Whether that happens or not is debatable but the club is in a terrible state and who knows where this will go. Rangers fans must be absolutely pissed off and rightly so. The people running the club are responsible for the way things have gone. You can vent at the manager and the players but ultimately, the responsibility lies with those who hire and fire. Clement is a bang average manager, the same can be said for the players and the player recruitment and things are going to get a helluva lot worse before they get better.

[@williamphilp2723]

Gentlemen. Your board aren't terminating his employment because they cannot finance the dismissal clause in his contract, plus the additional cost of backing a new manager. Period. The board hear you. Your cries of pain are ringing in their ears. But they are skint with a capital S. This is self inflicted death by a thousand cuts. You've got the manager at least until the end of the season, so take the pain and support the man. You aren't supporting the players either. They aren't the best quality players already and you aren't helping their confidence. One last thing... Try to accept Celtic's dominance and things won't feel as bad for you. Humility is a virtue. Keep up the good work with the podcast.

[@johndoyle7565]

Shark for hire 🦈🦈🦈

[@_Kid_Buu_]

This is our ole gunnar solskjær moment. Stewert has clearly learned nothing from his time at man utd

[@Dean-mp7vg]

Or maybe he’s learned loads and realises sacking the manager right now won’t solve the real problems

[@_Kid_Buu_]

@@Dean-mp7vg Nah, if you followed the man utd situation, they held onto crap managers too long, and sacked good ones too early. Theyre clueless

[@Dean-mp7vg]

@@_Kid_Buu_ sounds like a good fit for rangers then the way they’ve been. Clueless recruitment of managers, clueless signings millions of pounds on players that aren’t good enough. It’s wishful thinking by me hoping this Stewart fella has a long term plan lol.

[@_Kid_Buu_]

@@Dean-mp7vg We've been very clueless yes, in all aspects. Hopefully he doesnt add to it

[@MagnusAnderson-y6o]

Rangers have no choice but to come out with this statement. No choice.

[@pz8179]

Why can't rangers fans get it into their heads that they have NO MONEY! You can't afford to sack the belgian beale and his staff, you still have to find 4m for the lesser spotted cortes. The club are on the brink unless they can offload big dossers and Co. As for investment, what businessman in their right mind would invest in a club thats haemorraging cash and also plays in spl? The reality is the clubs not learned past lessons regarding finances. If instead of giving super ally 10m in the 3rd division, the club had invested in youth then perhaps things would be different. The reason the team is failing is a clear lack of quality in the squad. 6m for danilo?! 4.5m and rising for dossers?! Nevermind the wages. Forget about winning anything for next 5 years and gut the club from inside n out.

[@stevenmcqueen-z6b]

only way forward!

[@duncanmackintosh9239]

Guys I liked Gio we should never have got rid of him

[@MagnusAnderson-y6o]

Exactly and in same position now with less choice than before, due to circumstances.

[@scottcairney5653]

Aye totally agree wi you best manager we had since Gerrard but the same people got rid of him that want rid of Clement

[@Maestro-ds2hr]

Gio wasn’t backed in the windows

[@juicybear7696]

Nope he was also gash in the league.

[@scottcairney5653]

@Maestro-ds2hr totally agree when board never backed him some fans turned on him and parks sacked him to take pressure of them

[@stephenfay4049]

It's the board that will sack him not Patrick stewart a lone

[@tinrib656]

Probably be back to 15 points tomorrow.

[@Kebabchops]

Obviously

[@JimboPhelan]

Not sure .. draw looks likely

[@jamesalexander4926]

Clement should have been booted today.

[@alexshanks7683]

He should have been jettisoned earlier in the season before it was too late unfortunately it is now obvious it is not just a new manager we need my choice is McInnes he knows Scottish football inside out and as a former player whatever some fans might think he knows exactly what is required to succeed at Ibrox

[@BLUEHORIZON-g2b]

The way things are going, we will be around TEN Trophies, possible Celtic Trebles, before WE EVER GET ANYWHERE !!! Stop buying-up season tickets, stop attending games AND FORCE THESE RATS OUT of our Once Great Football Club, as this lot as others have said will promise us the moon YET DELIVER NADA !

[@81mccabe58]

More confident going to Celtic park than tannadice 🤥

[@dingledingle7951]

Board don't want to get a new manager in January as will want cash for signings so clemente will stay until early febuary at the least

[@I.B.Rox1962]

Of course we’ve made progress!!! What was the weekly wage, and overall transfer value of the team at this time last year and now? Average age? Future prospects? Suck it up buttercups… this season was done in August… losing by 2 or 30 is irrelevant… finishing second is a must (a cup and strong European result would be nice).

[@grahammcdowall5019]

Losing by 30 is irrelevant...r u fuckin kidding??!!!...

[@stevenmcqueen-z6b]

2 steps forward 3 steps back is not progress...

[@loxism72]

Another beautiful Sunday 😂😂😂😂

[@kangaroo1888]

Hard to motivate when you have lost the league few months into the competition

[@Notalwaysrightbutmostly]

Stewart your talking nonsense , why does a new manager take us back 18 months .Suggesting A kick up the arse transforms a bad manager into a good one ,The manager does not recruit the players so the next one won’t be bringing in his own players

[@colinmathie2710]

Hes here for the season, P.S. more or less said so, without actually saying so.

[@duncanmackintosh9239]

Clement is so negative a complete disaster as a Manager We have to get rid of him

[@Setinmywaysalways]

Michael Mols is recovering from a Brain Tumour/ we can rule him out?

[@JamtheGer]

By doing what?

[@JanetMacfarlane-u8o]

When and it's a big when we get rid of Clement any manager coming to rangers should only be offered a rolling year contract ,if he rates himself and does well then no worries he,ll get another year but handing out 5 year contracts is a nonsense especially if the manager has never proved himself and Clement never has imo 🇬🇧🐻

[@jameslothian8324]

i dont think its improve after what we did to celtic we need real consistency and a strong enough squad to replace first team players

[@Bluenose-h4q]

What’s the point in sacking him r you seriously expecting this board 2 get a new manager This same people who took 7 months 2 get a new CEO really the problem lies much deeper I’m afraid Kenny 100 per cent rite

[@user-bj2il1lg7e]

We should be tying into managers contracts if they drop a certain amount of points behind then they have their contracts terminated without the massive payouts... this seems to be a reoccurring problem that's costing us fortunes...

[@k14ser]

Bring back the sand dunes😂🇮🇪

[@duncanmackintosh9239]

Sorry Stewart but you are talking a load of shite

[@stewartgilroy995]

Explain what I have said is shite. It's options ans everyone has 1, but happy to hear yours

[@duncanmackintosh9239]

@ Sorry Stewart I was listening to the start of your conversation Thought you were trying to justify keeping Clement The further I listened you were more on board for change Sorry about that.

[@stewartgilroy995]

@duncanmackintosh9239 your fine Duncan, can't keep this man any longer, but I do think they have come out with this statement to buy themselves time

[@duncanmackintosh9239]

@ How much time can we afford to give them. As Martin says we can’t afford not to sack Clement

[@ScottIrvine-q6m]

I thought u were talking garbage at start also.why would sacking him put us 18 months behind.if we keep him another 6 months then would that put us 24 months behind

[@bigmeltie]

'It's a bad run...' 🤬

[@kevin1.9.8.1]

If he gets sacked he will be due millions as his contract expires in 2028, something you haven’t mentioned is the money that Celtic currently have in the bank and the money still to come from CL and the new Adidas deal,they will just keep strengthening and they are building Broomfield for the Academy to thrive and develop for the future

[@duncanmackintosh9239]

18 points behind and that lot have a goal difference of plus 32

[@JamtheGer]

Sore isn't it. Get used to it.

[@Kebabchops]

Going to be the story for a very long time

[@peterallison-ex4yy]

​@@JamtheGerHH

[@nicolarse-stubborn]

Will never win anything until the midfield is sorted ,its the root of all our problems

[@rosshammerton6370]

Just throwing this out there, instead of sacking could we bring in another manager to help what would save money, someone that gets the Gers , not saying Barry Ferguson but someone that has our blood,

[@DavieGlasgow]

To answer your 1st question; THE BOARD. Everything we are seeing right now is the manifestation of board mismanagement.

[@I.B.Rox1962]

Excellent Mr. Stewart… make it so. PC is a good manager. He just needs to learn a very different style of play. The SPL is very, very good at defend & counter… good teams don’t need to play that style (they just need the players and tactics to break it down).

[@williammcleod9351]

This is what Gerard done, he couldn't deal with the low block for his first 2 seasons, then it all came together, and he smashed it on the third, with financial backing, our manager had to cut his squad to balance the books, his hands are tied, our expectations are way out of balance, get real, the board fucked this up not the manager ❤

[@tommyfindlay]

And Celtic are the least of Rangers problems,there’s no money 💰 that’s why most of the team are struggling by bye,n cheap 😎🍀🍀🍀

[@grahammcdowall5019]

Not 1 fan would be after him if performances were good but we were just getting unlucky results...but we're not, we're playing the WORST FOOTBALL IN DECADES & there is nothing improving...the board is saying to the fans u r just gonna have to ACCEPT THIS FAILURE,this AWFUL football,this TERRIBLE atmosphere around clemente & the club because it's the CHEAPEST option...u know what, sell 2 underperfoming players to pay him off,..clemente is a poor manager, good managers get 9/10 performances out of 6/10 players...clemente gets 6/10 performances out of 9/10 players...we bottled the league, he bottled the league last year with the "promise" that given time they'd improve..we haven't, we've gone backwards...EVERYONE knows clemente will be sacked, it's just a question of how low will this shitebag board allow us to sink before they grow a pair of balls & sack him!!..we've played TERRIBLE football under clemente, I can only think of a COUPLE of games I've actually enjoyed, the rest have been torture!!!...hes lost the fans & players & the only people who r backing this disaster is the board & ITS ONLY BECAUSE OF THE MONEY... AND THAT SHOULD NEVER BE A REASON TO ACCEPT 2ND BEST & SHIT FOOTBALL!!!

[@chrishamilton5291]

tell me this if clement had a great board and money behind him and able to buy the players he wants,clement to me would be an amazing manager and evryone would like him,cany keep sacking managers way no money,a manager should be given time,this season was always a project

[@chrishamilton5291]

martin am no part of that 90 a have always known this season was a project a back clement

[@juicybear7696]

Only Ross County and St Johnstone haven't taken points off them this season which is lol

[@geraldrae7581]

My bookie paid out in December for the title

[@JohnThomson-nn8uk]

They have dug their own hole and now they have to lie in it ,while they expect the fans to eat it up

[@Gel-x2k]

When, Dessers is laughing at you, on the bench, it has went beyond untenable

[@NorthernsoulBoy63]

Never going to sack your twin brother 😮

[@charliebrown1408]

I’m surprised that the fans have laid siege on ibrox calling for him to be sacked and the board 😂

[@peterallison-ex4yy]

How stupid are these guys, they have consistently lost to Celtic but because they won 2 matches out of 20 that they are more worried playing against the rest of the league teams. Delusional doesn't cut it here, plain stupidly and bigotry is more like it and that's where the problems lay. This has been coming for years now. In the 80s and 90s I never seen this amount of desperation from the Celtic fans. We knew what needed to be done but we stayed true to our great club and its rebuild.

[@juicybear7696]

Lol

[@gerrybhoy1000]

At this point you have to ask what dirt does PC have on the board???

[@alanknotts1844]

Haudit and Daudit team up looking like the Mitchell Brothers from Eastenders-pair of galoots😂

[@Dean-mp7vg]

Galoot, that’s a cracking word lol

[@geraldrae7581]

Probably the players are picking their games

[@35davg]

Dont know how many times i have said this, the only solution is MASSIVE INVESTMENT IN THE CLUB, THERE IS NO OTHER WAY.

[@henrymcvey6538]

As Buzz would say “To relegation and beyond”

[@arcadewin]

Dick Advocatts team was the old Rangers! That was the cheating days

[@colinclark7467]

You have got to give him TIME you are to HARD on the players

[@geraldrae7581]

We had most success under Scottish or British managers apart from advocat

[@normanmcdonald9962]

How can you lot can never say Celtic. It’s always that lot . Pure fannies

[@Dean-mp7vg]

It’s the exact same thing as Celtic do, it’s either them, our rivals, sevco, our rivals. Embarrassing actually

[@stewartbalmer1515]

Fannies you have had chairman and managers that canny Rangers the Fannie is you tuning into a celik pod because your wee miserable life is that boring

[@Kebabchops]

Said it for weeks that he's going nowhere,if they were planning on getting rid they would've done it ages ago,better get used to it boys

[@stalker81254]

Fans need to stop comparing rangers to celtic. atm the team needs a re build the guy said hes hear to re build the team it takes time. yes were not going to win league's give it time. the clubs low on money it just takes time. The solution is not sack the manger. We keep doing that and haven't got anywhere its madness rangers not the team like it was before out the spl we only been back in the league 8 years and i say the only manger to actually have a chance to do something is GVB the conveyor belt of management and staff have to stop. Ngl this type of negative just gives content for celtic channels there more into rangers than ranger's fans 😅

[@markstewart9758]

Just get behind manager he didn't get backed in the summer no like beale needs to play his best players every game the team are needing winners who want to play for the rangers watp

[@geraldrae7581]

The formation is the problem as well he won’t adjust it during the game

[@michaelmulrainey4119]

Oooooh. Lovely.

[@Gaffnaldo2]

Haha, I know where this came from.......

[@tommyfindlay]

Man U made massive losses when Stewart was at Man U 😂🍀🍀🍀

[@boabfawcett]

Can we get the phone in back in?

[@billymilliken625]

If he Strunges to secure Second place then he's gone.

[@mrfix48]

Aye lets go back to start of the season season

[@ba8067]

The thing is Stewart is coming out change manager all time as this what happened with man united,,this is not man united this is rangers ,,down south play big teams every week and money down there is totally different,,no disrespect to smaller teams up here a club like rangers should be beating clubs like dundee, motherwell ,hibs etc it's his coaching as there is sum good players there and the board is rotten to the core

[@JohnmKaneMclaughlin]

Hahahahahaja💚🇨🇮🎶🎶💚🇨🇮💚🎶🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🎶💚🏆🏆🏆☘️☘️☘️☘️

[@bobbyfindlay6863]

Does it matter who we sign if he gets sacked thought it was koppens job

[@smck001]

Why are these people so clueless 😂

[@John-tz2tx]

A few months ?

[@badly_dubbed2401]

Yeah, sack the manager and cripple our club even further. Great job!

[@Calv1991]

Can you lads along with another few loyal fans be on the board and sort this mess out please!!!! Can’t the fans run the club??🤷‍♂️ absolute shit show

[@strawman80]

Bigotry on show here. It should be unacceptable to be 18 points behind ANY team.

[@mcleanmacleod6111]

We havent got 2pence to spare, we cant sack anybody, we are poverty tramps no surrender

[@k14ser]

Bring back the sand dunes😂🇮🇪-18

[@John-tz2tx]

Of course we can get rid.

[@JimboPhelan]

No money to pay him off . Fact

[@Kryzcek78]

We were going to be behind Celtic this season. 8 points or 18 points doesn't matter. Stay the course. He's got a bigger job on his hands than Gerrard, Beale and Gio. We have to support him.

[@jackskerry2467]

That’s fairly sensible, but he has to show progress to keep the fans onside & that’s not happening right now. He could be excused for not beating Celtic but this team even with injuries should be beating the rest & it’s not happening.

[@smck001]

Shaky leg scenario 🤣