Clement appears to abandon Rangers October improvement promise | OneFootball

Rangers manager Philippe Clement has once again employed the use of ‘time’ after failing in his ‘promise’ to produce a much better Rangers by around October.

Clement promised that his Rangers team would be a lot better by around Halloween, that early season form was not indicative of where the squad was, only for the team’s performances to arguably deteriorate worse and as we head into November, it’s abundant to most fans that Clement’s words ring hollow.

Concerningly though, rather than concede his promise was ‘broken’, Clement has doubled down on it and said it again, in a slightly comical piece of revisionism.

He said:

In other words, more or less repeating what he said in August, that the team would be much better in a couple of months, in ‘October’ to quote him back then, and now he’s shifted the goalposts and tried to buy yet more months, abundantly aware the team and squad is nowhere near where he suggested October would see them at.

Are we nitpicking a little?

Perhaps, but if you make a promise as a Rangers manager, if you make a bold claim that the team is going to be a tonne better on such and such date, and it doesn’t turn out to be, that is going to be noticed, especially when you then repeat that promise and just change the date to December January.

Of course, we are well aware the 10% of Rangers fans who still back Clement are abusing Ibrox Noise now, we’ve had a tonne of unpleasant comments aimed at us simply because we don’t want our club turning into Hearts.

But that’s not going to stop us calling this nonsense out and hoping/expecting a Rangers we recognise will resurface again.

Clement is slowly getting into Beale territory, whereby he cannot be trusted with about 99% of what he says. We don’t think it’s quite with the seedy lie vibe Beale gave off, coming across like a used car salesman.

But Clement, for whatever reason, is about as accurate as Beale was in the end.

Not very.