Kris Boyd rips claims fans Rangers WON'T want to beat Motherwell in cup semi final
Kris Boyd reckons Rangers' decline dates back to a failure to capitalise on their league title win under Steven Gerrard.
Philippe Clement and Co fell to defeat at Pittodrie on Wednesday night after Shayden Morris' later winner, meaning that the pressure on the Belgian only intensified as they fell nine points adrift of the Dons and Celtic at the top of the Scottish Premiership. The Ibrox side now have a mammoth League Cup semi-final against Motherwell to come this weekend with a defeat all but certain to doom Clement to the sack.
Jimmy Thelin's impressive start to life in the Granite City has his side currently splitting the Old Firm sides, and some places even pricing them as more likely to win the league than the Gers. The former Rangers striker even suggested that some fans would NOT want to beat The Steelmen in this weekend's semi-final due to the thought of losing out to Celtic in another final, and he also thinks there aren't many financial barrier to sacking Clement, despite his recent contract extension.
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Speaking on Sky Sports News, Boyd said: "Somebody needs to get a grip of the football club from top to bottom. It's been... you go back a few years ago now since Rangers won the league and you've got to say the decline has started from then, not being able to go and kick on. I think there's been many people within that working environment that could have done better. Right now it's not good enough.
"You listen to people speaking about the impact that, you know, sacking another manager, but if it's not the right man, then you need to try and find the next man. You can't just continue to plod on and plod on because right now that's what Rangers are doing. Everything's a plod on the pitch, you know, it's slow and everything off it.
"And I just look at Philippe Clement, he came in and you've got to say there was a freshness about him. I thought he spoke really well to the media, he was clear on his message he wanted to say, whereas the last three, or four months it's just been a total opposite person to what it was when he first arrived.
"A lot of people tell me that he signed a new contract, it's irrelevant. As I said, I don't think the release clause or the termination will be more than what it was whether it was in a two-year contract, a three-year, a four-year, or a five year, it doesn't matter. The release clause will be what it was.
"I get the fact that winning games at football breeds confidence and you can communicate better with people but... I mean looking for excuse after excuse, Rangers fans don't want to hear [it]. They've sat and watched it, they can see it. They don't want to hear, you know, we're unlucky, it was one of our best performances of the season.
"I mean, if that was one of the better ones, I wouldn't have liked to have seen the worst ones. The recruitment has been very poor in the past, it's been very poor right now. Philippe Clement was speaking last night about getting to another transfer window, I mean, if that's all you can look for to get to another transfer window to recruit more players that have failed to deliver, there's nothing to suggest this is going to get any better.
"And you can only look at what's going on right now and then judge it from there. And it is a million miles off where it needs to be. There are probably Rangers fans out there thinking to themselves, the last thing we want to do is actually beat Motherwell because, even if you get bad enough losing to Aberdeen, but if you go to Celtic and there's another cup final defeat right now, something has to change because whatever you say, it's not working."