Scunnered Kris Boyd has told Rangers that somebody needs to “get a grip” of the football club.
Rangers were knocked out of the Champions League on Tuesday, and with the Light Blues currently having to play their matches away from Ibrox due to delayed construction works, unrest is clear among supporters around how the season is panning out - even this early in the campaign.
Boyd confessed that the sending off to Jefte against Dynamo Kyiv at Hampden Park can’t mask Rangers’ full problems. While he reluctantly admitted that he worries about Celtic dominating Scottish football for the foreseeable future.
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"Even before the red card they weren't playing that well," Boyd told Sky Sports.
"Top teams in top countries dominate the ball and can keep the ball for large periods. I don't see that with Rangers, everything is 100mph getting the ball forward. When you've got better players than the opposition, you need to keep the ball.
"It's easy to blame the red card. Rangers need to be a lot better. Phillipe Clement has spoken of improvement, I've yet to see it.
“The Hearts game wasn't great, there was 45 minutes that were good against Motherwell but they ended up hanging on. Then missing out on the Champions League, which would have been huge in terms of being able to invest in the squad and money generated. Rangers aren't in a good place.
"Rangers fans are used to watching them dominate Scottish football - right now it looks like Celtic will dominate for a long time.
“The word project has been used about Rangers. I can tell you Rangers as a football club has never been a project and never will be, they need to win. That's where the pressure will build. People will want time but you aren't going to get it.
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“The whole thing a couple of weeks ago with Philippe Clement signing a new deal, I said at the time it’s all about perception.
“They are together and they will go forward as one, and Philippe Clement is in charge of the football club. But when I look at it right now, there is so many problems at Rangers, and the biggest one for me, yes you've got the pitch issues, but the biggest one for me is Ibrox. Whoever sanctioned that for me, I cannot work it out.
"You look at it last night, 39 thousand fans, Rangers have got a League Cup game against St Johnstone at the weekend, and you'll be lucky if there's 20 thousand there.
"The fans have had enough. I think when you go back to years gone past when you are going up the league's and you can see there's an end in sight here, because Rangers are going to get back and they are going to start winning titles again, they will be playing Champions League football.
"That has all been accomplished. Whereas now it seems to be it's back on the slide again and somebody needs to get a grip of the football club."
