I've posted on a few threads and I don't mind sharing so long as I don't get pushed to reveal who said it.
Long and short of it:
The board back Clement because he walked into a mess behind the scenes and he's done a lot of good work he shouldn't have to have done to sort it out.
The board don't feel they have given him the tools to compete with Celtic so never expected him to challenge. If Aberdeen had maintained their form, things may have changed as second would have been im danger.
I was told not to expect any incomings of significance in January.
There was more about other thinsg irrelevant to this.
It has to be said that the gentleman may have just been humouring me but he said this before the Hibs game when Clement then implied the transfer thing so I reckon he was probably being truthful.
I think it is fair to say that most are thinking that Clement may not be up to the job, either in the short term or long term. He is not getting the best out of a lot of the squad, and some of the decisions and excuses have been baffling at times. And we should be doing much, much better away from home, even accounting for the injuries and officiating problems we have faced.
But what cannot be denied is that he has not had a truly fair go of it yet. Therefore I can understand the board thinking this way, in which case they need to come out and say that they see it as a season of transition. One in which we will still try to do well in Europe and win the SC, accept we were a kick away (and a dodgy decision) from winning the LC, but that there has been too much upheaval on and off the pitch. Acknowledge the failures of the board and that results have been poor, but ask the fans to stick with the manager and players, and point to glimmers of light shown in Europe and against Celtic the other week, plus the fact senior positions are now filled.
I mentioned it in another thread, but when you add up the Hampden debacle, the lack of CEO & DOF, the highly paid under achievers we can’t shift (and others away that we are still paying towards), the downsizing of the wage bill, the run of injuries, the chairman falling ill, the Hagi contract situation, the ridiculous red card for Jefte in the CL qualifier, and the dodgy SPFL officiating, then he has had one hell of a shitshow to deal with. All in the space of 6 months or so. I am struggling to see how Clement can turn it around, but I also don’t think anyone could say that he has had favourable circumstances either. Only in the lower league years has a Rangers manager had to deal with such circumstances off the pitch, and nothing between 2003 and 2011 comes close to what a Rangers manager has had to deal with in the last 6 months, especially in the shadow of Celtic’s consistency.