Why Philippe Clement won’t quit Rangers – it’s not just about money | OneFootball

We touched on this earlier, promising a piece on why Philippe Clement will not resign as Rangers manager. Some may already know the answer to this, or at least part of it, and Ibrox Noise will now talk you through the reasons the man will not quit.

The first one is simple. Money. He stands to gain a £6M payoff following his new contract if he’s sacked, he doesn’t want to lose that money. Even Mutual Consent will still earn him at least half of that, around £3M.

The second one is he knows he can’t actually BE sacked – the club simply can’t afford to either sack or mutual consent him. Unless some investor or board member is happy to lend/gift the club his golden handshake, he can’t be fired. And he will know that.

The third one is more abstract; he doesn’t want to look like the world’s biggest hypocrite. Repeatedly talking about long term with Rangers, his love for the club, his commitment to the club, and indeed signing a new contract till 2050 (feels like it) makes him look 100% all in.

Resigning under those conditions would make him look extremely two-faced and would harm his future employment prospects that he’s come to Rangers, spoken a heap of nonsense and lies, and walked away despite professing his love and dedication to the club.

So in a way, Clement is actually as trapped at Rangers as we are with him – it’s a relationship both sides would like to end, and it just abundantly hasn’t worked.

The only ‘solution’ is Rangers promoting Nils Koppen to Technical Director and bringing in the new CEO Patrick Stewart hoping that the ‘all-in’ with Clement will magically just ‘work’.

Naturally it will not, but there’s too much investment in Clement to back out at this point, unless, as we say, someone plucks several million from somewhere and the man can be sacked.

The other left-field answer is of course the new CEO Patrick Stewart finding a magical way to part company with Clement which doesn’t cost Rangers a fortune.

That one is rather optimistic.

But no, unless Clement decides to walk away with no money, and look the world’s biggest two-faced hypocrite, or that magic millions can be found from somewhere, the Belgian isn’t going anywhere.