Rangers are looking for a new manager after firing Philippe Clement – but where did things go wrong for the Belgian?
The 50-year-old took the lead at Ibrox in October 2023, with the Gers seven points behind Celtic in the Scottish Premiership.
Fast Vooruit A few months and Clement's side had collected an unbeaten point of 16 games, followed by a new Stint that lasted 14 games, so Rangers level went on points with their rivals who played one game less. Because of these unbeaten runs, the club also won the League Cup and progress to the Europa League last 16 for the first time in more than ten years.
However, that campaign eventually ended in disappointment when the team missed the title title and, with Rangers who did not have a serious Premiership challenge this time during the suffering of Cup-Verneeding, Clement was rejected.
He is the fifth shortest manager in the 152-year history of Rangers-Dus What were the determining moments of his time in Glasgow?
December 17, 2023 – Rangers win the League Cup with a 1-0 win over Aberdeen in Hampden
James Tavernier scored the only goal of the match when Rangers claimed their first League Cup victory since 2011, with the team greeted by thousands of jubilant supporters back at Ibrox. After the match, Clement said it was his job to keep everyone's feet on the ground, but insisted that his team “grew”.
December 30, 2023 – Clement loses his first game to Celtic
The unbeaten record of the Belgian, when Rangers boss was brought to an end when his side of 10 players lost 2-1 to their old sturdy rivals in Parkhead. Clement asked the officials in the defeat but also complained about poor finish – it would not be the last time he would.
March 2, 2024 – Motherwell Win for the first time in Ibrox since 1997
What felt like a crucial midweek victory at Kilmarnock was undone in the next game with a surprising defeat at home against Motherwell – the first of the Steelmen in Ibrox in almost 30 years. Celtic gave the chance to capitalize the next day with a defeat at Harten, but this was demonstrable where the wheels began to come for Clement.
April 14, 2024 – Ross County beat Rangers for the first time
The side of Clement dropped four points behind Celtic with a pathetic second half that was shown against Ross County in Dingwall to hand over the initiative to their old solid rivals. Rangers succeeded this with a scoreless draw at Dundee the next midweek when their title ambitions imploded.
May 25, 2024 – Last -Gasp Celtic Winner Seals Scottish Cup
In what became a too questionable story for Clement, Celtic again hit winners against Rangers, this time with a 90th minute winner of Adam Idah. In reality, Rangers were much better and they felt hurt to let the goal of Abdallah Sima excluded by VAR, but it was another winless old solid encounter for Clement.
August 13, 2024 – Rangers struck the Champions League qualification
Rangers went to their Champions League Third-round-Round qualifying second stage against Dynamo Kyiv already to a disadvantage, because the reconstruction at Ibrox forced a move to Hampden. It was not the location, but a questionable officer who was eventually paid to Rangers' Champions League-Hoop, however, because Jefte turned hard red to score the visitors twice to achieve a 3-1 total victory.
September 1 – Celtic Hammer Rangers to deposit title marking
A summer of unrest on and out of the park was brought to a head in the eastern end of Glasgow while Celtic Rangers brushed aside again. Clement was the task of cutting the wage account in the summer and the team contraction was completely visible here when Celtic made light work on the Belgian team.
It was the fifth failed attempt by Clement to beat Celtic.
Kris Boyd from Sky Sports destroyed his old side after the game and claimed that no Rangers players would come to the Celtic team: “It is time for people to realize that this is not going fast. That was embarrassing from Rangers.”
October 30, 2024 – Rangers fall nine points behind Aberdeen
Rangers-fans had discouraged banners who protested against the running of the club against Kilmarnock and St. Mirren and a 2-1 loss for Aberdeen served to alternate them. Another defensive disaster and lack of competent finishing costs Clement's side when Aberdeen released nine points from Rangers before Halloween.
Clement's post-match comments where he claimed: “I think this is one of our better performance so far, this season, with the new team,” Did nothing to calm Boyd, who said it was time for the Belgian.
“He has to go now. Aberdeen are all that Rangers are not. What someone says, they are leading.”
November 23, 2024 – Rangers boost after Dundee United is struggling
Rangers were not just out of the field when they yielded a tasteless version against Dundee United – Jeers were audible during the game while fans expressed their frustration. It was not only the points that the anger of the fans attracted – but the way of the display.
The side of Clement changed consistently into pathetic impressions with little or no advanced edge, combined with shaky defensive moments. United boss Jim Goodwin even had a pre-match plan to “create some nervous tension” and to use the Rangers fans in their favor at Ibrox, emphasizes how detached supporters from the team had become.
This 1-1 draw kept Rangers third and further strengthened the pressure on the Belgian manager.
December 26, 2024 – Rangers return to normality in the loss of St. Mirren
A revival in versions since Dundee United debacle at Ibrox had seen a month earlier that Rangers brought together a considerable series of results. Clement felt hard done by a definitive defeat of a League Cup against Celtic and said that his team had to beat Tottenham in the Europa League.
But that revival was not long. A comfortable victory over Dundee for Christmas was succeeded by a new slow version in St Mirren. Clement made changes to his starting line-up and during an attempt to try to save the game with his side to save 1-0 in an attempt to try to save the game.
They thought they had earned at least one point before Caolan Boyd-Mune took the victory in a stop time for the hosts, so that every form of Momentum was on their way.
December 29, 2024 – Things go from bad to worse in Fir Park
A defeat against St Mirren on Boxing Day was bad enough, but to follow that with something other than a strong performance and comfortable victory on Motherwell three days later would be completely unacceptable to Rangers.
An unexpected starting line-up yielded expected results with Motherwell with 2-0 before half-time against a much-changed Rangers, while the visitors still delivered a Shamolic 45-minute display in Paisley in Paisley in Paisley three days earlier in the first half.
A two -squeeze from Hamza Igamane saved a draw for Rangers, but left them with 14 points with 14 points and went to the new year -old business conflict, with Clement struggling to explain the return to Trite versions and results that again to the edge had pushed.
February 9, 2024 – Ibrox Zangte in Queen's Park Hurmiliation
January had been a relatively successful month for Clement after starting the new year with a dominant 3-0 win over Celtic – the first (and ultimately only) old strong victory of the Belgian. Draws in Hibernian and Dundee were par for the course in a season that was derailed by the road on the side, but Rangers provided a top-eight finish in the Europa League group phases, which seemed to temporarily temper the domestic frustrations.
Every credit that possible in the bank was completely wiped out when the Championship King Park Rangers dumped out of the Scottish Cup in one of the greatest disturbances of the competition ever the following month. James Tavernier missed a 97th-minute fine to seal the fate of Rangers in a 1-0 defeat, so that the home crowd again called for the manager to be.
Asked if he would consider his position after the game, Clement was challenging: “No, not at all. No, I don't expect this (conversations with board) because you can place another manager in this game – would it be otherwise? What was fans yesterday?
February 22, 2024 – Clement accepts that the board should make a decision after the loss of St. Mirren
Clement was given a stay of execution 10 days after that Park's Park-Verning by CEO Patrick Stewart, where he repeated his conviction that the problems of Rangers were not due to one manager in recent years and that the 50-year-old would just repeat “Mistakes from the past”.
Things, however, changed with a different defeat at Ibrox, when St Mirren put aside a tasteless rangers to achieve their first victory in Govan since 1991 and back-to-back victories over the Gers for the first time since 1979/80.
Clement had spent the previous day that he was not worried about his role with the news that American investors were talking to Rangers about a takeover of the club of several millions of pounds.
However, he visibly looked down after the 2-0 defeat and every hint of challenges in his interviews after the game apparently evaporated: “Those are things that the board should decide. I believe I can get results with these players But I am also very disappointed about what we have shown today – and I am responsible for that.
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