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Kris Boyd has given a bleak assessment of Philippe Clement’s future prospects as Rangers boss, claiming a change is needed after the club fell further behind Celtic in the Scottish Premiership.
Rangers’ poor form away from home continued on Thursday with a 1-1 draw against Dundee which left them 15 points behind their rivals at the top of the table.
They started the game at Dens Park with just three wins in 10 league games away from Ibrox and failed to complete the turnaround and improve that record after a goalless second half that saw Vaclav Cerny cancel out Oluwaseun Adewumi’s opener.
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Highlights from the Scottish Premiership match between Dundee and Rangers.
The result provided more ammunition for those who believe Clement’s time at Ibrox should be up, with the club’s away fans showing their displeasure at the final whistle.
“It’s just excuse after excuse,” said Boyd, the former Rangers striker Sky Sports. “Rangers have got a team that should come here and wipe the floor with Dundee but they are holding their own.
“Thirteen points from 33 away is a disgrace. You can talk about progress but there is none. You talk about players who are tired and low in confidence. You absolutely destroyed Celtic a week ago or 10 days ago – you destroyed them.
“And you’re struggling for confidence. Lose two, draw the game and lose the game before the Celtic game. There was no confidence struggle going into the Celtic game.
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Rangers manager Philippe Clement reacts to 1-1 draw against Dundee amid growing fan pressure.
“And now after that, you’ve drawn two games again and there’s a lack of confidence in them. It just doesn’t make sense.
“I just look at the club right now and on the pitch, it’s broken. There’s no patterns of play, there’s nothing. You always go back to the Celtic game as Rangers’ best performance of the season.
“But it can’t just be a one-off, we know that. It’s an absolute disgrace that Rangers are in this position.
Rangers’ Hamza Igamane responds to Dundee’s first strike
“And you see you didn’t spend money. It was spent. Yes, there was cost cutting, but money was spent.
“There’s no improvement. We’ve also talked about improving the injuries. I mean, it’s actually worse.
“You can talk about moving players and needing extra minutes. Guess what? You’re a football player. That’s what you’re paid for, and that’s minutes.
“There is no progress whatsoever. It’s over.
“It’s over now with (Rangers chief executive) Patrick Stewart, because I’ll tell you straight away that those were the last two away games we’ve been to.
“Those fans have had enough and it will get to a stage where they will stop coming to games and then you will see the real problems start to materialize for Rangers, because this cannot continue.”
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Dundee’s Oluwaseun Adewumi celebrates after scoring
Chris Sutton on Sky Sports:
“Philippe Clement has to take responsibility, but the players on the pitch also have the knowledge and understand how to win games.
“You look at the Rangers team and you think, ‘does the jersey fit many of these players?’ I said before that there is a losing mentality at the club and nothing has really changed, and it doesn’t just apply to Philippe Clement.
“This has been going on for years and years and years. And look how distasteful that performance was tonight. Celtic are laughing at them.
Rangers conceded first at Dens Park
“Brendan Rodgers, he’s going to open the champagne tonight, laughing at them. It’s a shame that we’re in the early part of January and Celtic are 15 points clear at the top. It’s shocking and unbelievable.
“We spoke before the game and me and Kris (Boyd) thought that Philippe Clement should have left a long time ago. But now they are at a kind of crossroads because can this continue? The club is in regression.
“And so are we going to look at that or is Patrick Stewart going to look at the bigger picture and not just one game against Celtic where they raise their game or, you know, the odd game in Europe?
“Clement will come out and talk about Celtic having a bigger budget, but Rangers shouldn’t be dropping 19 points against sides who have a far, far smaller budget than them, and he never mentions that.
“We hear excuses week in and week out. And that’s not good enough. And it’s about time he took ownership, but he won’t.
“But this Belgian waffle will go on and on and on. It won’t stop until it’s decided.”
