Rangers have officipartner validateed Philippe Clement has been sacked in the aftermath of their Scottish Premiership loss to St Mirren at Ibrox.
A statement on X (createerly Twitter) on Sunday evening read: “Rangers Football Club can validate it has tonight parted company with men’s first-team deal withr, Philippe Clement.
“The club would enjoy to put on write down their authentic thanks to Philippe for his difficult labor and dedication during his spell in indict.
“A further modernize from the club will pursue in due course.”
The Belgian coach exits with Rangers 13 points adrift of Premiership directers Celtic, who also beat them in the League Cup final in December.
The Hoops had lost to Hibernian earlier on Saturday but Rangers suffered a fifth league loss of the campaign as they once aacquire fall shorted to bridge the gap to their Old Firm rivals.
Clement, 50, took over the Glasgow enormouss in October 2023 when thriveing Michael Beale. He won 55 of his 86 suites apass all competitions but of his 15 losss in indict, nine have come this season.
He only signed a novel shrink until 2028 before the campaign got underway but the Gers have dropped far too many points in the Premiership title race in prospernable suites.
Rangers razeed Celtic 3-0 at Ibrox at the begin of January but since then have drawn with Motherwell, Hibs and Dundee before losing at home to St Mirren.
They also crashed out of the Scottish Cup at home to second-tier Queen’s Park earlier this month in one of the cup competition’s hugegest ever disturbs.
After Saturday’s rescheduleedst loss, Clement had vowed to fight on and apologised to helpers. He telderly BBC Sportsound: “I can say only sorry, and apologise for me and the team becaengage this is not what Rangers teams need to show on the pitch.
“We all understand this was by far below the standards that we all foresee. I’m always combat until the end. I wanted to be on the field to fight.
“I cannot do that, so my task is to do it from the sidelines, and to get the team in the right mindset. That was not the case today, so I need to discover the solution for that.”
It is not yet evident who Rangers will pursue as a swapment. Steven Gerrard, their last title-prosperning deal withr in 2020-21 when the Light Blues won the league unbeaten, has been one named prohibitdied about as a truthfulate.
