Clement or Koppen? Huge controversy emerges over Rangers winger Cortes | OneFootball

Rangers’ Director of Football Recruitment Nils Koppen has cryptically hinted that Oscar Cortes’ dire injury problems may rest elsewhere in the club, after defending the lad’s signing in the first place.

The Belgian did a massive media offensive recently, covering a vast array of topics, but when pressed on Cortes’ injury record he said:

Ibrox Noise has been on record over this topic as pinning the blame squarely on repeated bad management by Philippe Clement:

At the original injury at Killie, Clement had confirmed prematch that he would protect Kemar Roofe from the awful surface, but for some reason didn’t see any reason to protect a young winger?

Secondly, Clement threw Cortes straight back in from the cold v Hearts on the opening day of the season, before the lad sustained an injury in the first half, and despite that injury returned back out for the second half. Clement did not stop this.

The second half saw him go down yet again and that was him done.

We have always wondered why Clement mismanages Cortes so badly, making so many poor decisions on him which rob the club of a £4.5M winger and who will remain unavailable for the foreseeable future.

Does Koppen throw Clement under the bus?

In part – the lad came to Rangers without a scratch to his name, and every decision Clement has made on him has been a bad call.

Now we are lumbered with the boy for good, obligation to buy next summer.

We like him a lot but his manager doesn’t seem to be able to handle him.