Kris Boyd insists he was not one to get carried away by Rangers’ recent upturn in form.
And the Gers hero says there are still huge concerns around the team and manager Philippe Clement following the Boxing Day disaster at St Mirren.
We told how Boyd claimed Clement has two games to avoid the sack and also took aim at a trio of Rangers freelancers.
Gers fans are calling for the manager’s head again and the former goal-getter insists how new CEO Patrick Stewart reacts to the situation will prove his credentials for the job.
The Light Blues head for Motherwell today and four away defeats in right would suggest it won’t be straightforward.
Boyd is also frustrated with how often the team get themselves back into games after falling behind, only to throw it away again.
Clement’s double Rangers sub irks Boyd
And he pinpointed a key decision the manager made during the defeat in Paisley which tells a story.
Summer signings Nedim Bajrami and Connor Barron being hooked at half-time for Danilo and Nicolas Raskin was, he reckons, a sad indictment of recruitment.
And he also feels it pours hot water on the manager’s claims he is working with an entirely new squad.
“There’s not many times I can remember off the top of my head that Rangers go behind, get yourselves back onto level terms then you still manage to go and lose the game,” Boyd told The Scottish Sun’s Go Ballistic podcast.
“But it is happening this year, you think of Pittodrie. And there seems to be a lot of flip-flopping from Philippe Clement.
“You only need to like at the signings. You take yesterday (the St Mirren game) for example. You take Connor Barron and Bajrami, who was Rangers’ star signing in the summer.
“When Rangers need a result and performance Barron and Bajrami are whipped off to be replaced by two players who Clement inherited.
“My point being that all we hear from Philippe Clement is ‘this new squad’. It’s not the truth. And there is something in the football department at Rangers right now not working.”
What Boyd has said on Clement’s Rangers future
“Philippe Clement has two games to save his job as Rangers boss,” Boyd wrote in the Scottish Sun.
“Or he should have — IF the club is still operating to the standards I grew up with.
”Clement said the Boxing Day defeat at St Mirren was ‘unacceptable’.
”He was right — but so too is Rangers being 12 points behind Celtic after 17 games.
“If that gap grows to 15, or worse, this week then it has to be the end for Clement’s reign as boss.
”One TV camera panned to new Ibrox chief executive Patrick Stewart in the closing seconds at Paisley.
”We will soon find out what his remit is at Gers. And whether the club is serious about challenging Celts.
”Is Stewart simply there to balance the books, and be happy with the team finishing second to get a shot at the Champions League qualifiers?
”Or do Rangers still have ambitions to mount a serious challenge to Celtic?”
