Ross Wilson sack verdict dropped as cracks emerge at Rangers with Giovanni van Bronckhorst ‘finished’ – pundit
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Tam McManus doesn’t believe Ross Wilson is the man to point the finger at and blame for Rangers’ frustrating start to the 2022/23 season.
Although Giovanni van Bronckhorst took the Gers to the Champions League group stages, he’s overseen embarrassing results in the competition and also dropped four points behind Celtic in the Scottish Premiership.
Many Gers fans are blaming sporting director Wilson, as well as van Bronckhorst, for the club’s shortcomings. Rangers’ official commercial partner Four Lads Had A Dream called on the board to sack both of them on 13 October after the 7-1 home defeat to Liverpool.
But McManus doesn’t believe Wilson should be the subject of complains from fans right now and is blaming van Bronckhorst and the playing staff for this season’s underwhelming results.
“It’s always pointed in the direction of recruitment when the team’s not doing well,” McManus told Ibrox News.
“Ross is in charge of that but they’ve still got the nucleus of a squad that got to a Europa League final.
“They’re really underachieving with their squad of players, individually and collectively.
“Listen, I think the performances have been so bad and the players can perform much better than they’ve shown.
“We spoke about the Dundee game last week, it was so poor. I felt there could’ve been a wee upset in that game because of the way Rangers are playing right now and confidence being low.
“Ross will be getting it in the neck as well but I think the finger needs to be pointed at the players and the manager.”
Writing in the Scottish Daily Mail [print edition, 23 October, page 144], journalist Gary Keown said that van Bronckhorst is “finished” at Ibrox.
He claimed that it looks as though the players have lost faith in the Dutchman, who took the Light Blues to the Europa League final and won the Scottish Cup last season.
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