Wilson impressed by passion of new boss

Rangers defender Danny Wilson was struck by the passion of Pedro Caixinha in the new manager’s first meeting with his players.

The Portuguese coach introduced himself to the squad yesterday morning and outlined his ideas on football.

And Wilson revealed there was an intensity in putting his points across.

Wilson told his club’s official website: “He seems to be the type who gets right involved and you could tell that from when we had the meeting this morning, his passion shone through in that.

“We need to match that and go beyond that as players and if he is going to give us that then we have to give him something in return.

“We know this season has been fairly disappointing so we need to try and finish on a positive note.

“I’ve only worked with British managers and you maybe see when you watch European football that the managers get more animated on the sidelines.

“If that is his style then great but we need to give him a hand as well.”

Caixinha watched Rangers’ 1-1 draw with Celtic from the stand on Sunday before being introduced to the media on Monday as the players enjoyed a day off.

Wilson did not take part in full training after putting in an impressive 90-minute shift on Sunday but said Caixinha has already made his mark.

“It looked like a really hard session that they did and the boys said it was quite intense but they really enjoyed it,” the 25-year-old added.

“They said it was different to what they had done previously because every manager comes in with new ideas but on the whole I think they all quite enjoyed it.

“Nothing massive has changed yet, we did a recovery session and that was a wee bit different, we went outside and did some work out there and we hadn’t done that previously.

“I am sure there will be more changes as we go on but I think for his first day he is just letting us get used to it.”