Rangers need £6M to fire manager Philippe Clement | OneFootball

As is being widely sourced and understood, Rangers simply cannot afford to fire manager Philippe Clement despite rumours this morning that the club is about to do exactly that.

Sadly, due to a stressed-out ex-chairman John Bennett, who stopped Clement resigning some months ago via a wage rise and extra year on his contract, Rangers are unfortunately locked into an expensive prison with the manager, and would have to shell upwards of £5.5M to let him go.

Clement approached Bennett earlier this year saying he was unhappy and was ready to walk away, and the chairman, already stressed via the stadium fiasco, made a very bad judgement call to try to keep Clement and avoid another manager search.

Bribery was more or less the answer here.

And now that’s trapped Rangers into approaching a £6M payoff to fire Clement, who now clearly is on borrowed time.

Rangers’ hope is that Clement does the right thing now and resigns, saving the club a lot of money, but then the Belgian will almost certainly feel like he owes nothing to Rangers and doesn’t have to walk away without a bean. Or maybe he’s a better man than we give him credit for, and will do a PLG.

As things stand, Rangers are completely trapped with Clement, unless someone happens to have a spare £6M in their pocket to give the man – the only other possibility is the notorious mutual consent – a fat payoff to rinse the contract out but without paying the whole thing.

This is how Michael Beale was freed – he told the club he was done without formally handing in a resignation, and the club agreed, and a payoff was mutually sorted out.

But for a pure firing, it will cost Rangers around £6M.

That’s spare cash we really just can’t waste.