da stake casino： Replacing managers mid-season is a tricky business. After the departure of Pedro Caixinha, the decision makers at Ibrox have been tasked with finding the perfect man to take the club forward at a time when the most talented managers around are already deep into season-long plans at their current clubs. Couple that with the pressure on the team and inexperienced caretaker manager Graeme Murty to keep producing results and it’s a massively difficult situation to navigate.
da leao： The temptation could have been to make a quick appointment, with obvious high-profile candidates ready to be approached, appeasing growing unrest in the Rangers support and providing a swift answer to increasingly difficult questions from pundits, media and newspapers. It got to the stage that the club were forced to release a statement last week, outlining that they were going to wait until close of play this week to attract applications, before even embarking on an interview process.
Are supporters right to have concerns about the lack of action on the recruitment front, or is this a sign that the club are taking the appointment of a new manager as seriously as ever, and the steps they need to ensure the new man is a success at Ibrox?
The sacking of a manager usually comes when a situation has reached breaking point, but it’s often underestimated how disruptive the act of bringing in a new manager can be to a club. New staff arrive to work with players, personalities clash and inevitably it can lead to friction behind the scenes, even if results do improve.
The most important thing Ibrox chiefs have to think about the is the long-term stability of the club and their competitiveness over the next few years – a long-term view needs to be taken. To do that they need to ensure the new manager is someone who can work with the different departments that will work towards that shared goal of success, within the budget constraints and limitations of life at Rangers.
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That’s where they went wrong with Pedro Caixinha; an appointment that on surface level seemed exciting but it quickly became apparent he was at odds with the direction the club were pulling in. Did they take enough time to do their due diligence on the Portuguese?
The situation has also been made more complicated with the appointment of Director Of Football Mark Allen in June of this year. The extent of his role at Ibrox hasn’t really been made clear given that most of Rangers’ transfers arrived before he was appointed in the summer, but it’s clear any new manager needs to build a partnership with him.
Appointing someone like bookies’ favourite Derek McInnes makes perfect sense to fans, but would he be willing to work in a structure where he wasn’t in full control of recruitment? These are the types of questions decision makers need to understand and that takes time, but also requires as wide a field as possible rather than putting all their eggs in one basket before coming up short on philosophical differences.
When a managerial change occurs it puts media speculation into overdrive; high profile names come and go, managers with faded reputations are linked and there’s quotes from people simply putting their name in the spotlight. With the pressure on to make quick appointments we’ve seen time and again in football that poor decisions are made.
Rather than it being a negative that it has been close to a month without a leader at Ibrox, the fact the club haven’t rushed into a firm decision should be seen as a positive by fans. It shows there’s measured process behind the scenes, with the club also trusting Graeme Murty to keep things ticking over in the dugout.
With a wide field to now choose from, the club can move forward in the process knowing that the right man is out there somewhere, rather than bowing to the consensus of an obvious choice.