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Caixinha HAS lost the dressing room — it’s time for Ibrox board to act
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THE Rangers board needs to act now on Pedro Caixinha. Once a manager has lost the dressing room, there is no way back.
When you are in a divided dressing room, there will be players who down tools. There will be players who are not fit enough, who don’t want to put in the extra work. And there will be players that want to play well but when questioned in a game, will not go that extra yard.
And I think that’s evident in the performances by Rangers. There’s something clearly wrong at Ibrox. It’s not happening, it’s not clicking. Pedro’s now talking about ‘what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas’ but the fact of the matter is that nobody inside that Rangers dressing room seems happy. Hence why they are not playing well. There is no team spirit, no togetherness, no fight.
They are a group of individuals and the fact that there is a leak leaves him with two options — clear out the whole changing room or find the source of the leak and get rid of them.
But now he is saying it’s giving him more confidence that there’s a leak in his dressing room. I said weeks ago he is delusional but it’s mind-boggling. I don’t understand the guy’s mentality.
Players will be talking about how bad he is behind his back. That nobody trusts him or is buying into his work ethic or his football philosophy. How does that give him more confidence?
You can’t pick up a newspaper without Pedro Caixinha saying something embarrassing. But it’s gone too far now.
The players have no faith in him, the fans have no faith in him, and he’s now on to the next step. He is testing the Rangers board.
Where is this club going? He’s spent around £8million on transfers — twice as much as Celtic — and Rangers are fifth in the table and still miles behind.
He comes out and makes a statement about his big signing Carlos Pena being in the top three fittest people at the club. That’s absolute nonsense.
He was done after an hour against Celtic. If Pena is one of the fittest guys in that dressing room, then fitness is an issue at Rangers — in addition to all the other nonsense that’s going on.
And all those shenanigans with Scott Brown at half-time at Ibrox on Saturday? What kind of manager squares up to the opposing captain?
It’s ludicrous. But we’ve gone past people smirking. Everyone is waiting on the next embarrassing thing Pedro does. It’s time for the Rangers board to act.