Breaking news: Rangers face an extraordinary situation as Clement regrets putting his trust in people who are hoping for trophies.
Breaking news: Rangers face an extraordinary situation as Clement regrets putting his trust in people who are hoping for trophies.
Since the day he joined the Rangers, Philippe Clement’s injury problems have plagued him.
Actually, the underpreparedness of the Ibrox team has also cost the Belgians’ predecessors, as injuries have severely disrupted the careers of Michael Beale and Giovanni van Bronckhorst.
With a severely short Ibrox team collapsing to a third Old Firm league defeat of the season, the plight of Rangers’ medical department was also exposed over the weekend.
We truly are sick and tired of this desperate nonsense.
Prior to Tuesday night’s intensely poisonous visit from Dundee, Philippe Clement has expressed his unhappiness with the Rangers’ injury problems in a number of ways, and it is evident to all.
Clement verifies five new injury issues
At least eleven first-team players will be absent from this week’s match against Dundee, according to Philippe Clement.
This includes three alternatives for center defense (you will remember that Van Bronckhorst struggled in this area as well), but the club’s options for forwards and midfield are horrifyingly restricted.
Rangers are also pitifully short at the upper part of the park, and the whole affair is sufficient to make you round the corner at Edmiston Drive.
The 11 players that are absent are too many to remember, so I had to put it in writing, Clement stated.
“Dujon Sterling, Abdallah Sima, Danilo, Bailey Rice, Tom Lawrence, Oscar Cortes, Rabbi Matondo, Leon Balogun, Connor Goldson, John Lundstram, and John Souttar will not be available due to suspension.”
Thus, from the Old Firm loss to Celtic, Rangers have lost John Souttar, Leon Balogun, Dujon Sterling, John Lundstram, and Tom Lawrence.
Five players, or more.
In response to a question about whether the players were eliminated from the 25 May Scottish Cup Final, Clement said, “I don’t think so and I hope to recover a few next week.”
“However, I don’t expect miracles or players who have been out for a long time to suddenly be able to play for 90 minutes.”
“Yes, there should be more players available,”
The Rangers boss is calling for better medical care.
During an impressive news conference, Philippe Clement spoke mostly about two topics.
While the topic of recruitment took center stage, talks about injuries took over the whole post-Old Firm debriefing.
Since almost taking a job at Ibrox, Clement has made it apparent that things in the medical department there need to alter going forward.
Nevertheless, as he faced the media after the incredibly depressing loss, the Belgian was forced to pick through the remains of his utterly destroyed team.
This is what an obviously irritated Clement said.
Clement responded, “If we are both fully fit, no,” when asked if Rangers and Celtic differed significantly.
Additionally, even with two losses and a draw, that is in the points. In the last six months, we have gained one more point.
Therefore, no, there isn’t a significant difference, but we still need to demonstrate this on the field in our outcomes against one another and in the other games since it’s not only about us.
“We must seize those opportunities. It is a feature of elite football. If you score the first goal, the game will play out differently in another scenario.
“It definitely would have been different in this game. We also had the opportunity to accomplish it; we had two good shots to open the score, but you have to seize the opportunity, and that is our duty.
Subsequently, he said: “It’s challenging for every team in the world if they have nine guys who could be in the starting lineup but aren’t available.
I keep hearing the same things: that it was such a huge deal when one or two Celtics players returned after missing time during the season.
“We had nine, and we have eleven tomorrow, so that’s a big thing that we need to change for the next season, so that these things don’t happen,” the author said.
But what we really need to strengthen is the house’s foundation.
In response to the question of whether the injuries made a difference in winning the league or not, Clement said, “No, there will be other things also, so it’s too easy to only put it there.”
It is the instant when we stop focusing on how we can improve things here and start focusing on how we lost something to someone else.
With all the contract issues and other factors, it’s also obvious that the team will undergo a transformation.
We’ve been working hard on that for months, so we’re going to keep working hard on it.
The recruitment staff appears to be very busy selecting quality candidates for the upcoming season, but for me, the importance of these final three games comes before anything else. It’s not just about the season to be focused on, it’s about today and tomorrow.
“Yes, it is true that we miss the eleven players, but we now have to utilize every player that is available to the best of our abilities.”
In order to get opportunities to play, a number of men have been working really hard over the past few months.
“I was unable to contribute because others have performed so well; now is their opportunity to demonstrate it.”
Clement retaliated angrily at the medical department when questioned about hiring, saying, “We need to make good decisions in other departments as well. It’s not just in recruitment.”
“Because we can’t sustain too many injuries, I believe we also need to rebuild certain things there.
“There are a few things that need to change, but I would prefer to keep these things in the building and improve it.”
Clement cryptically responded, “For sure the injury story, maybe it was better not to wait until the end of the season to make decisions around that,” when asked what the main lesson he would take away from this season.
“But you give people chances too.”
There will undoubtedly be changes because Clement’s news conference raised more concerns than it did answers regarding the team’s conditioning.
