Jermain Defoe isn’t wrong with Rangers criticism

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·15 October 2024

Jermain Defoe isn’t wrong with Rangers criticism

Former Rangers striker Jermain Defoe has rather stuck his neck out to admit Rangers are a bit of a mare these days, amid the club’s struggles.

The ex-England international became the latest club figure to criticise Rangers’ plight, calling the team and club a ‘tough watch’.

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He said to Gambling.com:

“We won the league when I had the player-coach role, and then after I left the boys came so close to winning the Europa League, and I looked at it and thought they would kick on the next season. But it’s actually gone the other way, and it has been tough to watch, because I try and watch every game, I go to Glasgow quite a bit and speak to some of the boys. I feel like it’s obvious that something needs to change, the players need to try and find their form. You look at the points that Rangers dropped last season, and they’re games that you would expect them to win convincingly to be honest.”

Fair enough, it’s hard to argue with much in there at all, Ibrox Noise might not have been a huge fan of Defoe in the final year and a half of his time with Rangers (jaunting off to Sky Sports for punditry rather than bothering with his duties at Ibrox) but he does know his football and he’s admitting what we all know.

He suggests the players need to find their form, and it’s hard to argue with that either, but of course they are playing to manager Philippe Clement’s orders, and if the orders are no good, the gameplan and form won’t be much cop either.

It is a very, very tough time in the history of Rangers, our recent piece gave a hint of how we feel our club just ‘isn’t right’ at the moment.

And Defoe is not wrong to make a point of that.

When will something resembling Rangers as we know the club resurface?

That’s a good question.