Philippe Clement calls for end to Rangers boardroom war amid Dave King return plan
Philippe Clement has urged Dave King and the Rangers board to end their arguing and come together for the good of the club.
The South African businessman has recently thrown his hat into the ring to become the chairman for a second time and replace John Bennett who stood down from his post due to ill health. It was a move which did not sit right with all members of the board with some making their feelings known against King's return.
Clement has no real skin in the game on either side but rather he wants the entire club to be together on all sides to get the club back to where they feel it should be. And he's called for unity.
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Asked how important that can be, Clement responded: "Of course. If there's no unity you cannot have a good club. That's clear. But I'm not a board member here, I'm not a politician. I'm the manager of the club. I'm here to focus on football, on sports, on the team, on making them better, on the project for the future. I've engaged myself in the long term in that way. So I'm focused on that, on the sports side. And the rest is for other people to arrange really well. But it's important that they support the sports side and that's what I feel for the moment.”
Interim chair John Gilligan was joined by investor George Letham and director Graeme Park this week as they held their first sit-down with the Belgian.
“I sat down with all three who will take over the things that John Bennett was doing," Clement added.
“So we had talks about that to keep also consistency in the story. They all know John well, so I was happy that they knew already a lot of things. We could discuss several things and work hard to make it a lot better. “It's for everybody important that there's stability in the club otherwise you cannot work. So everybody understands where we are at the moment and where we want to get to. So everybody is very motivated for that.”