Ibrox Noise
·15 August 2025
Former Rangers manager may have solved long-standing Ibrox ‘mystery’

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·15 August 2025
Philippe Clement is hardly a massive friend of Rangers fans these days, with the former Ibrox manager’s arrogance and stubbornness components of his undoing. But Philippe Clement backs up Mark Warburton….
He spouted many promises and waffle and frankly delivered on absolutely none of it, showing incredible obnoxiousness in the role.
Now, we know away from football the guy was decent enough, but when it comes to management, he has a lot to learn.
That said, recently he made a comment about his firing which arguably proves a great mystery solved after the Belgian admitted he learned of the sack via the media.
He said:
“It felt really empty. I was also angry that moment because all the journalists knew before me. I got a lot of messages from Scotland, England and Belgium even, before I get a message from the club, so I was not happy with that. That’s not good. I told them also that it was totally disrespectful, that moment. But I felt really empty because you build something together in your full day and night with everything in the club. And I had to do much more than you normally should do as a manager in the months before when these positions were not filled in.”
In short, the journos told him before the club did.
And what does this arguably prove?
We’re not sure he’s deep-dived into Rangers past, but Mark Warburton said exactly the same thing. That he learned via Sky Sports news.
Fans didn’t believe a word of it, but Warburton has stuck to that story for the duration, that he learned via TV.
Honestly, Ibrox Noise didn’t dispute his version at the time. W know how disloyal and horribly-run our club has been for a long time. Look at how poorly we treated Lee Wallace.
We incline to believe the Baldy on this one. Because Rangers have been terribly-run for a long time, and the previous regime was very much cut from that cloth. Philippe Clement backs up Mark Warburton!
We can’t say the Americans are filling us with more confidence that they do anything any better. They endorsed Russell Martin and Kevin Thelwell after all…
So maybe the Magic Hat wasn’t lying after all.
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