Rangers board take major decision on Giovanni van Bronckhorst

Rangers’ board have made a decision on Giovanni van Bronckhorst and it’s not the one Rangers fans in general wanted to hear.

Having weighed up the £5M it would cost to fire him, plus factored in the mitigating circumstances of the colossal swathe of injuries engulfing the club, the board have decided, for now, to leave the Dutchman in position for the foreseeable, but the situation is ongoing and will be subject to review.

The reality is one of these reasons is extremely fair, and one of them is cynical – with the club making £5M profit in the last accounts, and having received that sum from the sale of Steven Gerrard, the notion of then ‘losing’ it to the firing of GVB sits poorly with most of the board. It is money the club doesn’t want to waste.

The other reason is the injuries. In reality, how can any reasonable Rangers fan judge van Bronckhorst on team performance the past 6 months when he’s had so few of his key players to choose from? With up to 15 top players injured in the past half year, the squad has been barebones – plus factoring in the sales of Aribo and Bassey and that certainly hasn’t helped matters.

So it’s deemed by the powers-that-be that Gio stays at Ibrox for now, in the hope this month-long break restores a bunch of the players and we return to action in late December far better equipped to deal with the SPL than Leon King and Fashion Sakala allowed us to be.

Is this reasonable?

Yes, it is. Fans wanting GVB sacked were, as we stand by our assertion, measuring this season based on what we achieved in Europe last. All the negativity we’re now seeing is because we’ve not measured up to our European run, despite having about quarter of the squad that did that.

Do we support and trust Gio on Ibrox Noise? No, we absolutely agree with a tonne of the criticisms aimed at the man, that even the negative boo boys said, because we’re willing to see both sides.

But we want to give the man a chance, armed with a gun, and not the water pistol he’s had since Seville.

We think that’s fair.