Why Rangers board and Dave King MUST end their squabbling as Philippe Clement has message for warring Ibrox chiefs
Ex-chairman King has been firing off stinging shots at the directors in recent
Philippe Clement has urged Dave King and the Rangers board to stop their squabbling and instead join his battle to get the Ibrox side back fighting fit.
Former chairman King has spent the past week firing off stinging shots at the directors he blames for the club’s current mess. The South Africa-based millionaire has gone on the offensive while at the same time offering to return as and replace John Bennett, who was forced to resign as chairman this week on health grounds.
His challenge to put the question of who controls the club to the vote at an emergency general meeting is unsurprisingly destined to fail, with key Ibrox investors like Douglas Park, George Letham and George Taylor still seething over King’s shock decision to quit the club at the height to Covid pandemic back in 2020. Clement has chosen to look away while Gers’ top brass sling it out with their former boardroom boss. But he’s urged them to sort it out while he focuses on getting Gers back on track.
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Asked how key it was to have unity at the top of the Marble Staircase, the manager said: “Of course. If there’s no unity you cannot have a good club. That’s clear. But I’m not a board member here, I’m not a politician. I’m the manager of the club.
“I’m here to focus on football, on sports, on the team, on making them better, on the project for the future. I’ve engaged myself in the long term in that way. So I’m focused on that, on the sports side. And the rest is for other people to arrange really well. But it’s important that they support the sports side and that’s what I feel for the moment.”
John Gilligan – one of King’s main allies when he initially took control of the club back in 2015 after forcing out the Mike Ashley-backed regime in charge at the time – has been brought back as interim chairman. He was joined by investor George Letham and director Graeme Park this week as they held their first sit-down with the manager.
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The meeting was designed to assure the boss that the club was not teetering into crisis after Bennett opted to stand down amid the intolerable strain placed upon him by the club’s chaotic summer and nightmare start to the season. Clement – whose side today return to Ibrox for the first time this season when they host Dundee in the Premier Sports Cup quarter-finals – said: “I sat down with all three who will take over the things that John Bennett was doing.
“So we had talks about that to keep also consistency in the story. They all know John well, so I was happy that they knew already a lot of things. We could discuss several things and work hard to make it a lot better.
“It’s for everybody important that there’s stability in the club otherwise you cannot work. So everybody understands where we are at the moment and where we want to get to. So everybody is very motivated for that.”
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