Philippe Clement adamant Rangers will not sack him in bold claim amid Dens Park fan fury

Under-pressure Philippe Clement insists he’s “200 percent confident” in the Ibrox board’s backing - despite being told where to go by Rangers’ furious travelling faithful.

Stuttering Gers slipped up for the fourth away game running as they were held 1-1 by Dundee after a dismal Dens Park display. It means Clement’s side have spilled 21 points from their 11 Premiership games on the road this year and now trail Brendan Rodgers’ swaggering Celtic by 15. That is all too much for an enraged Gers fanbase, who took aim at their boss as the beleaguered Belgian led his team down the tunnel at full-time.

But Clement is confident he can win them back over - and insists he still has the support of his Ibrox paymasters. He said: “Yes, of course the fan sare unhappy. We are also unhappy, all of us are unhappy, to lose these three points. Supporters are always behind us when we are good, when we play good games. So today it was not a good game. So I understand that they are unhappy about that.

“I know these supporters, that they don't give up the moment we show quality. It's about us showing the quality on the pitch and then they are directly behind the team, always. So it's our task to do that as fast as possible. That starts on Sunday, to show quality again and on both sides of the game. Not only offensively, also defensively.

"Today, defensively, it was better compared with the last away games. In that way, a positive. The game that Clinton Nsiala played for his third game for the Rangers, a positive point. But at the end, it's about results, of course. A lot of points spilled over the last two or three weeks.”

Asked by Record Sport how confident he was in the board’s backing, he said emphatically: “Two hundred percent. We