Rangers board have backed Gio over his job now they must back him with transfer cash – Barry Ferguson
dailyrecord.co.ukSo it seems Gio van Bronckhorst has been given a stay of execution. We’re five days on from Rangers’ defeat in Perth and the boss is still in post despite the widespread clamour that followed Sunday’s St Johnstone sickener demanding the Dutchman get his jotters.
I listened to Gio’s press conference the other day where he said he hadn’t spoken to the board in the wake of that McDiarmid nightmare and that tells me he’s going nowhere.
Frankly, if the men at the top of the marble staircase were going to bin the Ibrox boss, they’d have done it by now.They’d have given themselves as long as possible to get a new coach in, with the plan to give him a few weeks to get to know his players during the World Cup break.
So if, as it now seems, they are going to stand by my old team-mate, it’s about time they gave him some proper backing in January and the best possible chance at turning this campaign around before it really collapses.There’s just no getting away from the fact that recruitment hasn’t been good enough.
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