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Todd Cantwell showing off his skills in training shows why he might be right for Blackburn, but exactly why he was wrong for Rangers.
That’s the view of Tam McManus who reckons the Ibrox flop’s latest social media antics are everything that’s ‘wrong’ with modern football. Cantwell left Rangers under a cloud late in the summer window after failing to see eye-to-eye with Philippe Clement and being banished to the B-team. Exactly what went wrong is unclear – Clement simply revealed he’d turned in a transfer request, with the player later blaming the change in management and tactics – but the eventual move was best for everyone with Gers signing Nedjim Bajrami in his place.
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During his first week at Blackburn, Cantwell shared a clip of himself scoring a flourished volley on the turn in training as a sign of what he’s bringing to his new club. That caught the ire of Rangers fans at the time, sarcastically flooding his replies with comments like ‘incredible stuff, you did a really good kick’ and ‘2024 training champion.’
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And now Record Sport columnist McManus has weighed in on X with a scathing criticism of the midfielder. He said: “I genuinely get how the Rangers fans really turned on this guy. Probably everything that is wrong with modern football is in this one clip.
“Posting goals in training you might get away with down south, but at a big club like Rangers what the fans want is for you to do your talking on the pitch. Not for likes on social media.”
After leaving Rangers, Cantwell opened up on where it all went wrong at Ibrox – saying that the club he left under Clement was wildly different to the one he joined under Michael Beale. He also hinted at ‘misconceptions’ over the way things were construed, and that he and Clement simply had different visions for his future.
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Cantwell said: “Michael Beale was the manager who signed me, Ross Wilson was the sporting director and they made it clear what it would be like,” he explains. I was up for it and I loved my time at Rangers. It was a special football club. Nobody can take that away from me. Is it demanding and stressful, at times? Yes. But I knew that going in, I loved having to win every game, I’ve been like that since I was a child.
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“I think there’s a misconception about my time at Rangers, it has been twisted a little bit. I wasn’t a bad performer, I didn’t leave because I was kicked out of the door. The manager and I didn’t see us going in the same direction. That’s nothing personal, a manager has a lot of players to deal with as well. I loved the club, it was a difficult decision to make.
“It was the right thing for me to do in my career. The staffing changes, made it feel like a different place. When a new manager comes in, they have to put their own stamp on things. I have full respect for the management but it wasn’t the right place for me to be, personally. Tactically, the way things were played, I’m 26 and I wasn’t sure it was the right place for me.”
“It’s a bold decision but let’s see how it unfolds. I am desperate to clear up that I said I didn’t want to play for the club. I would never say that, I said I wanted to leave and other decisions were taken out of my hands.”
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