Philippe Clement is having to run Rangers all by himself | OneFootball

As regulars to Ibrox Noise know, we are far from huge fans of the manager. We called him out as early as late last year, and voiced it more strongly from around February March, only for it to take till the past three weeks or so for the general fanbase to mostly acknowledge he isn’t the man to take us forward.

But that said, we’re not monsters, or nasty, nor sadists, and we offer a general vote of sympathy and empathy to Philippe Clement, who in the absence of the club having any kind of leader, has had to be the sole face and voice of the Rangers FC the past 6 months, unless you count ex-chairman John Bennett and more recently his interim replacement John Gilligan.

Indeed, it harks painfully back to 2012 and then-manager Ally McCoist, who took pretty much the whole club and fanbase on his shoulders becoming the sole voice himself back then, the face of Rangers as it was back in those dark days.

Clement is having to do the same thing, and he has acknowledged he’s the main voice these days, with no CEO, no Sporting Director and no permanent Chairman.

He is also not a doctor, but with Rangers’ ongoing injury issues, he sometimes has to feel like one, and we have to admit while Clement has bitten off more than he can chew at Rangers, he is still having to cop the flack at the club almost alone.

He has no leadership from the board to take any of the heat, and now that half of the board that the fans hated are gone from the club, it’s Clement single-handedly taking all the heat.

There’s basically no one left.

We can say what we like about his management, but Clement off the pitch is pretty much, give or take, running far too much of the club, a bit like Michael Beale was having to do as well.

And it takes its toll, being the single face of the club almost all of the time – Clement is only human.

We’ve definitely been hard on him on Ibrox Noise, and we don’t take any of it back, but we do know he’s having to carry far too much on his shoulders and there’s no one else to take that heat.

We almost feel sorry for the poor sod.