Clement’s Legacy: All Talk, No Delivery – and Rangers Left Picking Up the Pieces | OneFootball

Let’s be brutally honest — Philippe Clement talked a huge game. He strutted into Ibrox with the charisma, the quotes, the charm, and the promise that he was the man to sort Rangers out once and for all. He said all the right things. Spoke of mentality, hunger, character. Sold us the dream that this time, it was different.

But it was all noise. All hot air. And now the mask is off.

What he’s left behind is one of the weakest Rangers squads in recent memory — mentally fragile, lacking direction, and full of passengers he hand-picked. For all his talk about winning culture, we were utterly humiliated in the league when it really mattered. Collapsed in Europe. Lost the big Old Firm matches. And now we can’t even beat a Celtic side at Ibrox missing half its team.

That’s the Clement legacy.

Yes, not every player on the park today was his signing — Dessers came under Beale, and the squad still had a few inherited pieces. But the spine of what we’re now watching was shaped by Clement. Bajrami, Mohamed Diomande, Jefte, and Clinton Nsiala all bear his stamp. He had a full winter window to strengthen — and chose to do virtually nothing.

Now we’re left with a team that has no winning edge, no proper leaders, and no structure. The same soft underbelly we’ve seen for years is still there — despite Clement’s promises to root it out. He talked endlessly about mentality, about what it takes to win at Rangers — and then folded under pressure, time and again.

The most frustrating part? He made fans believe. Spoke the language, gave off the air of competence — only to completely fall apart when it mattered. No silverware. No long-term progress. Just another disjointed mess of a squad that now needs gutted again.

The next man will need to be ruthless — there are maybe five or six players worth keeping. The rest can go. And Clement should be ashamed — not just for the results, but for the illusion he spun while driving Rangers right back to square one.