It is time at Rangers for Danny Rohl to ditch Youssef Chermiti | OneFootball

He is absolutely the man that Rangers fans love to hate right now. Youssef Chermiti is without any doubt public enemy number one and not just because of his dire miss at Tannadice. Yes, it was extremely poor but it is the latest in a long line of dire misses by the Portuguese striker who symbolises the utterly awful work that Kevin Thelwell did. Thankfully the former sporting director has now no longer darkened Rangers doorstep any longer but he has left a wake of utter nonsense behind. Such as Youssef Chermiti’s struggles.

And now Rangers are having to deal with that level of mess. And of course the biggest symptom of that mess is naturally the Portuguese and former Everton striker. Chermiti unfortunately symbolised overspending for no real return. Ibrox Noise has already very vocally complained about the additions of Thelwell in Aasgaard and Emmanuel Fernandez two League One failures who had no place being at Ibrox.

Thelwell’s legacy of failure

Time has borne that out even if occasionally Fernandez has looked slightly better. The fact is Thelwell spent a lot of money on junk and Chermiti has been the biggest symbol of this. His miss in Dundee epitomised everything that has been wrong with Rangers’ striking in recent times. We simply cannot understand on a pure footballing basis why someone would spend £10M on this forward given how poor he has been. It is why there have been so many questions asked about the legitimacy and even borderline legality of that signing and how much went into the pocket of Thelwell as he now walks away from Govan. We will never know the truth on that one. We have looked into it in a bit of detail but that is another story for another day.

Chirmiti as the fall guy

Simply put Chermiti is the fall guy. He is very poor up front to say the utter least but furthermore had the absolute gall to score an admittedly good goal then give a bit of abuse to Rangers fans for it. This suggested that he believed the criticism at him was unfair. Of course it was not. The man has scored four goals in about four years. He has been absolutely chronic at all levels of football. He was very poor in Portugal to say the least. He did not shine there either. And in Britain he has been an utter failure. And yet he still plays.

Danny Röhl’s ongoing issue

This is the biggest part of the flaws here that Danny Rolh is even using this guy. He has no longer got Kevin Thelwell dictating anything above him. Danny Rohl has the choices and yet still he gives Chermiti a chance. We are into December now and the boy is getting opportunities. And he keeps failing. Is that his fault or his manager’s fault. That is not for us to necessarily say. But at the end of the day we do feel a little bit of sympathy with Chermiti. He is utterly despised and hated by Rangers fans certainly on a football level. And he did not make things easier for himself by giving a bit of lip back. But he is still a young naive boy in an alien land and no one wants him. Youssef Chermiti’s struggles and that’s not easy to deal with.

The problem now is Rangers frankly do not have a striker at all up front. And that is not helping the goals.