Rangers fans point Gio to major PL decision

Ok, it’s pretty much official:

“See Ten hag has the balls to leave out his centre back cos he has been sh*t. Gio take note.”

We saw this comment earlier on our fb page in reply to a post about tonight’s PL epic.

Fans are increasingly concerned that a certain undroppable member of the backline is going to keep costing the team over the coming weeks and months, and the manager takes action.

See, Harry Maguire is unfortunate – wrong defender, wrong club, wrong price tag. He was excellent at Leicester but his failings have been exposed by both his current employer and the amount shelled out for him.

And Ten Hag decided to drop him into the third match and Utd’s performance against an admittedly out-of-form Liverpool was a vast improvement.

But his Rangers’ counterpart? Will Gio have the cajones to make these kinds of calls?

It’s not just about Connor Goldson, it’s about any player who isn’t performing.

Steven Gerrard, on first being appointed manager, vividly said any player who wasn’t delivering, who didn’t have hunger, was out.

This turned to be completely false, as the boss developed his favourites and stuck by them come hell or high water, for right or wrong.

Gio has continued that trend – he has stuck religiously by certain players, for right or wrong, even if they’re not performing.

Goldson is among these, McLaughlin is another, and arguably even the modestly-performing John Lundstram (who we love dearly) is currently perhaps another. You could even make a case for Ryan Kent.

His compatriot Ten Hag showed real strength – not just Maguire, but Ronaldo too – two of the biggest stars at Old Trafford. He’s in the job 10 minutes and has no allegiance to anyone, ergo culled two of the biggest players. And won his first match as Utd manager.

Gio has to be the same ruthless. He has to be willing to cut out players who aren’t performing. Whether they’re McLaughlin or Goldson or anyone else.

Because his job is the one on the line if Rangers are let down by individual players who aren’t at the races.

It’s one to ponder.