Rangers fans are set to be (predictably) disappointed with the news that manager Philippe Clement does not intend to change formation, despite the current one not working, because he doesn’t believe he has ‘time’ to put those ideas into practise.

With the current system evidently yielding poor results, many fans have suggested that the boss needs to change things, to try new things, with some supporters hinting at a 3-5-2 or 3-4-3.

One of the biggest complaints is Rangers don’t have a real 11 up front, no proper target man, so persisting with a solo striker, especially as out of form and morale as Cyriel Dessers is these days.

Not that the Belgian-born Nigerian was ever much cop as a target man, despite his goals and assists numbers, but he was all we had.

And with his current malaise much like the rest of the team, fans urge the manager to try something new.

But he says no:

“I think it will only create more doubts. How are you going to change the formation if you can train on that for one time. How are you going to train on that in how you build, how you create chances, how you defend? Everything in a session of just one hour? You can build on things. If you have some foundation, if you have something solid, you can build on the next step. We’re not that far yet with the group to do that in this moment. (But) It’s a difficult one to turn that around in one day.”

Pretty sure you had a two-week international break to try that Phil. Once again the man drivels utter nonsense in the press, with bizarre comments, weird explanations where he seems to be suggest no manager in the history of football has ever changed formation or been able to…

No, the reality is he doesn’t want to – he’s stubborn to his 4-2-3-1 and has been his whole career as a manager and stuck by it even when his Monaco era was tumbling down around him.

Clement is a deeply, deeply stubborn manager – he just refuses to change things, and we believe the only reason James Tavernier was ‘dropped’ v Killie was the boss had to play Kasanwirjo contractually based on his loan from Feyenoord.

Clement is his own worst enemy – refusing to change things and giving nonsense explanations to try to justify those decisions, things will only continue to deteriorate because of his inability to try something new.

Que sera.