'Shambles' - Stevie Clifford slams Rangers figure amid behind-the-scenes mess

Rangers are in desperate need of a day-to-day chairman who is involved with every small matter at the club, according to Four Lads Had a Dream.

Stevie Clifford said on the Four Lads podcast (6 September) that a lack of on-site leadership in the Gers boardroom has played a big part in the club’s current problems both on and off the field.

Clifford highlighted the forced stadium relocation due to delayed redevelopment works at Ibrox, forcing Philippe Clement’s side to begin their campaign at Hampden Park until the end of September.

He said: “I believe if we had the proper people in place, Ibrox stadium would never have turned into the shambles that it has – because you would’ve had an active chairman, you would’ve had a CEO on-site, making sure that these things were in.

“All due respect, but John Bennett lives in London, he’s not day-to-day – we need a chairman day-to-day, we need a CEO day-to-day, we need people here that are running our football club that are on top of the smallest matters.”

Rangers must stop the rot from both top-down and bottom-up

You’d be hard-pressed to find a Gers fan who is over the moon with the current direction they see the club heading in, and it’s never been clearer that new faces are needed at the very top of the club.

With a London-based Bennett supposedly in charge from afar, the Ibrox boardroom is still lacking a CEO months after James Bisgrove’s departure, as well as other vacancies further down the chain.

Zeb Jacobs is also yet to be replaced as the club’s academy director, while Nils Koppen’s responsibility as head of recruitment – minus a director of football in place – has also come under the microscope.

Clement and Koppen’s rebuilding of the squad cannot be judged as a success until much further down the line, with nine of their new signings yet to experience the atmosphere of a full Ibrox.

The Gers board having better control of the rudder could well have made no effect on preventing the delays which have forced Clement’s side out of their home, but the fact that a summer of huge upheaval has led to no changes in the boardroom implies that this is the area which needs addressing next.

In other Rangers news, the Gers have been linked with a veteran international defender if one of their long-serving players departs.

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