Graeme Souness has added his warned Giovanni van Bronckhorst that time is running out on his 11 month reign as manager at Ibrox.
When the legendary former Ibrox boss gets critical you know that the Dutchman is in trouble with Souness almost certainly echoing the thoughts of the Ibrox decision makers.
Normally anyone in power at Ibrox can count on the backing of figures like Souness to fire-fight in public as others call for sacking but on the back of a record breaking Champions League campaign and falling seven points behind Celtic things have changed in the last 24 hours.
Picking up on his appearance on TalkSPORT alongside Jim White, The Sun reports on Souness saying:
Undoubtedly he’s a man under pressure. Miserable European campaign, losing to Celtic… it’s going to be difficult for him to recover.
He’s got to beat Celtic twice. Celtic have to slip up. Managing Glasgow Rangers isn’t an easy job, as I’m sure managing Celtic isn’t.
There’s games you’re expected to win simply because, certainly in my day, I could have one player that I bought for more money than the whole eleven players we were playing against. That in itself brought its own pressure.
Glasgow Rangers are expected to win every game they play and that’s the price on the ticket when you manage that enormous football club. Right now he’s under pressure.
Two trophy wins in 10 years suggests that van Bronckhorst isn’t the first boss to fall way short of the unrealistic expectations of supporters.
Souness would be a very popular choice among Ibrox fans to take over as manager but the scale of the job would likely scare him off.
With a contract running until May 2025 van Bronckhorst holds all the cards with his arrogance unlikely to see him hand in his resignation letter without the incentive of a healthy pay off.
The Dutchman is scheduled to host a media conference tomorrow to preview Wednesday’s game at home to Hearts.
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Souness would be a very popular choice among Ibrox fans to take over as manager but the scale of the job would likely scare him off. might I suggest that the lack of the kind of ‘war chest ‘ that he referred to might scare him off also?