Ibrox View: This could get ugly after Tom English shares stunning sack update from senior Rangers figure

Rangers could be set for a lot more turmoil before there is any light at the end of the tunnel after an incredible sack update emerged.

Philippe Clement is under huge pressure from fans after his third Scottish Premiership loss of the season, 2-1 at Aberdeen on 30 October, left his side nine points behind the Dons and Celtic with just 10 games played.

Despite that record looking very similar to Michael Beale’s, Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s and even Pedro Caixinha’s when they were all let go respectively it appears the Light Blues are ready to tough out the growing struggles however bad they get for the next two seasons.

Rangers hierarchy ready to concede next two titles to Celtic

According to BBC Scotland’s Tom English on 1 November the Ibrox hierarchy is prepared to cede the next two titles to Celtic without pulling the plug on Clement’s project, to end the cycle of hiring and firing that has already proven so costly to this point.

English wrote: “In the dog days of early season, after Dynamo Kyiv had put them out of the Champions League and Celtic had put them to the sword in the Premiership, a senior figure at Rangers spoke about the importance of backing Philippe Clement.

“The gist was this: Clement had proven himself to be a competent manager in his first season and would get the time he needed to rebuild his team, no matter the heat that came from supporters if things got bumpy on the road, no matter if Celtic won the league this season and next.

“There would be no knee-jerk reaction, no continuation of the short-lived spells of Giovanni van Bronckhorst and Michael Beale, no throwing good money after bad in a frenzied pursuit of their city rivals.”

On paper, with all emotion put aside, that might reasonably be argued as the only way to slowly dredge themselves out of the mess they have got into after three managerial changes in the past three seasons.

But in the heat of the Old Firm rivalry it is a huge decision to make for the Ibrox hierarchy to let two more league titles head to Parkhead, especially when the Gers are currently now third best in the division and looking over their shoulders in case more surge ahead.

Aberdeen beat Rangers to go nine ahead

Gers supporters are already raging at the football on display from Clement’s side, and yet it continues to become more confused and pedestrian rather than less.

The results have put him into the exact same territory that has seen multiple other Ibrox bosses lose their job, proving how short of good enough it is, and calls for Derek McInnes, Kevin Muscat, or just about anyone, are only going to increase if this continues.

On current evidence it probably will, and it appears fans are already responding by not selling out the cup clash with Motherwell on Sunday (3 November), which Stephen McGowan called “almost unheard of” on PLZ Soccer on 31 October and suggested might force a change, yet it appears not.

One more title for Celtic will put them level with Rangers on 55, and next season’s as well would see them move ahead, which would be extremely hard to swallow however rational the reasoning was.

If the board, who are hardly popular as it stands, are ready to keep the current manager in place through the next two seasons without a requirement to win then the mood among fans will likely go through the floor, and seats in the stands could be empty.

Derek McInnes mooted as Ibrox replacement

And yet at the same time, Celtic have won the past three titles under Ange Postecoglou and Brendan Rodgers already while the Gers cycled through manager after manager, and after Clement’s side squandered their opportunity last season it now looks like it will be Jimmy Thelin’s Dons if anyone is to prevent a fourth.

Through that time there has been no coherent recruitment plan, leaving a mess of a squad constantly requiring an overhaul for the next man, while success on the pitch has dried up and the finances have worsened along the way.

The Ibrox decision-makers apparently fear the next two titles, and potentially more, landing on the other side of Glasgow anyway, so short-term pain for long-term gain might be the only way to avoid prolonging the misery in perpetuity.

And the worst thing for this fanbase is, for all the current hierarchy have got wrong they might actually be right on that, even if the manager they’ve chosen to stick with is providing very little to pin future hopes to, and the young signings are yet to properly click.

At the present moment, with results crumbling and Clement’s excuses post-match increasingly meaningless, it looks like being a dismal road ahead for Gers fans whether he stays or goes, since replacing him now could easily lead to the exact same thing this time next year for a fourth time running.

But if the club are prepared to tough it out for the next 18 months, at least, it could be set to get extremely uncomfortable in Govan.

In other Rangers news, a furious Sky Sports pundit has slammed an unqualified senior figure over a seven-figure transfer gamble at Ibrox.

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