Rangers, Clement exit, Jim White and ‘mutual consent’ | OneFootball

As the world and his dog now knows, Rangers manager Philippe Clement did not lose his job yesterday.

Indeed, broadcasting legend Jim White confirmed there hadn’t even been any kind of meeting, and fan-source 4lads also confirmed the story was complete fabrication.

It all appeared to originate from a small Rangers account with about 9,000 followers, and grew wings from there, and before we knew it WhatsApp groups (including Ibrox Noise) were going crazy for the story.

But the story was rejected entirely by White and 4lads, despite fan hopes that the manager and the club were to part ways.

The claim was ‘mutual consent’, but while Ibrox Noise was rather swept up in the story as well, we also knew that the club doesn’t have the cash to even pay Clement off 50%, as we reported yesterday.

To sack Clement will cost about £6M, to mutual consent the Belgian would be around half of that, £3M. And we don’t have that either.

And so it went that the story died around the back of 7PM as these sources, particularly Jim White, announced no meeting and no departure. And that was that.

We also know, vacuously, that former Man Utd interim CEO Patrick Stewart is now Rangers’ CEO, and that position is finally filled after a ludicrously long time. We aren’t filled with hope over him, but time will tell if the board has made a good call.

But Clement remains, and fans remain unhappy. The turnaround since August 14 when Ibrox Noise received a poll number of 91% in favour of the man is staggering, we suspect it’s barely 5% now who back the boss.

But unless someone gives Rangers a wad of cash with which to pay Clement off, or gives us compensation for ‘signing’ him, he isn’t going anywhere.

Unless, that is, our new CEO finds some magic dust somewhere and can find a way to sever ties with him permanently at little cost.

That would definitely get the fans onside.