Charities on parade
continued to dominate his thoughts when asked about the early-season wobbles.
He said: “I am a straight, clear and honest guy with a really strong character. I love a challenge.
“So if I need to take the caravan by myself, I will be the first one to do it. Even if the dogs are going to beat me after, I don’t care. Let them bark.
“We all know the history of this club and we need to respect that. This club is about winning. Sometimes to lose, or come back the way you come back in five years, might cost you a lot of time to get back to the new reality.
“That’s what the caravan is doing. It’s working hard to get a proper football team that might get the club in the right direction. Everything that is said on the sides, which means the dogs are barking, I don’t care about it. It’s not going to change my opinion regarding the work I need to perform on a daily basis.
“I’m the one driving the caravan. And I’m the one who, when the dog is barking, I’m not changing direction.
“I have a really strong character. I love arguments and challenges.
“I’m the one who, if I need to get out and pull the caravan by myself, I will be the first one to do that.
“Even if the dogs are going to get me after. I don’t care. Let them bark.
“But I’m not going to tell you it will happen today, tomorrow or the day after – just that we are working hard and we are all heading in this direction.
“Knowing that the dogs are barking but the caravan is moving. The caravan is moving and disturbing a lot of people. We don’t care. We just care that the caravan is always moving.
“I was brought here to help the club return to the glory days. And I will do it.”
Last Saturday’s draw with Hearts came after a home defeat to Hibs and already ground is being conceded on the Premiership’s usual high fliers.
The noisy disapproval the Rangers fans aired at the end of the stalemate with the Jambos is just another sign of growing unrest at a club where the agenda has always been to challenge Celtic and win trophies.
Caixinha believes the club’s battle back to the top of the game has also come at a price where a new and more realistic reality is at play.
He said: “I’m not a guy who takes to the streets a lot but I consider myself a normal person.
“When I need to go shopping, have dinner, go to the city centre, contact RYAN HARDIE joined Connal Cochrane (Rangers Charity Foundation), Robert Lappin (Combat Stress), Gordon Michie (Poppy Scotland) and members of the Armed Forces to help the club donate £15,000 as part of their ongoing partnership.
Since 2002 Rangers Charity Foundation has donated over £1.8million in cash awards and over £2.7m of in-kind support to hundreds of groups and individuals. other people, I contact with the anonymous fans. They are supporting us and backing us in everything.
“Our massive fanbase knows this team is working hard for them.”
A win in the Highlands is now of critical importance if Caixinha is to steer his team out of a start to the campaign that has been underwhelming and the Portuguese boss accepts results are at the top of his agenda.
He said: “A win is always important, we need to be sure and safe about one point. Rangers is about winning.
“Even the recent history and being in the lower leagues, it’s about winning. We are moving the caravan in the right direction in order for you to win. The boys are working hard in that direction.
“We have the players. Don’t you think we did enough to win a football match against Hibs and Hearts? Sometimes we are focused on the result.
“Yes, the result is what really matters but we need to look behind the curtain. And behind the curtain is the window that the caravan is moving. So let the dogs bark.”
Caixinha has seen enough of Scottish football since his arrival in March to appreciate the demands but he’s adamant it will have to bend to his will rather than him altering his own approach and philosophy.
He said: “I didn’t know Scottish football like I know it now. You have a lot of good teams trying to play good, positive football.
“There are then other teams who try to play much more on the physical side.
“It is the culture here and I’m not criticising that. What I’m saying is you have to understand that to play against it but not in the same way.
“I don’t need to adapt. If I adapt, I will be like the others. I have my own identity, character, philosophy and my own style of football which fits this club.
“This is a massive club. And the big clubs play, for example, like we played against Hearts when only one team looked like they were trying to play football, with the other just concerned about defending and keeping their own goal safe without conceding.
“That’s the way I see football, always in a positive way.”