Rangers must sack Giovanni van Bronckhorst if unwanted record is claimed
Rangers will be licking their wounds after they were pummelled 7-1 by Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool in the Champions League on Wednesday (12 October).
A late-game blitz saw the Premier League side run riot in Glasgow to leave the Light Blues with zero points in the group stage after four matches.
Even worse for Giovanni van Bronckhorst and the Bears, they currently have a goal difference of minus 15 having also been comprehensively beaten by Ajax and Napoli.
That means that they are only four conceded goals away from equalling the worst-ever record in the Champions League group stages, set by Dinamo Zagreb in the 2011-12 campaign, as reported by Andrew Maclean.
With a trip to the free-scoring Italian league leaders still to come and a home meeting with the Dutch champions, Rangers are suddenly starting to get desperate for a point to avoid this very unwanted record.
The only chance might be against Ajax with Napoli now four wins from four in the group, having scored 17 goals in the process and if they fail to prevent being notched into the history books, then van Bronckhorst should be under serious pressure.
Having thrown away a six-point lead in the Premiership last season, the Dutchman would have been on very thin ice at Ibrox had he not won the Scottish Cup and reached the Europa League final in the process.
This abysmal campaign in the Champions League is only highlighting the Light Blues’ problems even further and that is without pointing out the two-point deficit to Celtic in the Premiership too.
If van Bronckhorst can’t turn things around then Ross Wilson has to consider sacking the Dutchman and finding a better-suited man to take the team into the future.
In other Rangers news, a journalist for The Guardian has slammed Light Blues fans for what they did during the humiliating Liverpool defeat.