Philippe Clement admits Rangers WILL play behind closed doors as he tells Dundee 'we'll go to MARS'

Philippe Clement says Rangers are willing to play behind closed doors if that’s what it takes to get the twice-postponed clash with Dundee out the way.

The Rangers boss joked his players would catch a flight to Mars if told to play there for three precious points in the title race. But he was deadly serious when he said the Dens chaos a bad image for the Scottish game. Clement revealed Rangers had an offer to play Wednesday’s clash 24 hours later turned down and insists they are now at a disadvantage ahead of their Scottish Cup semi final with Hearts next weekend.

The Ibrox side will now prepare to head to Tayside for a third attempt to play the cursed fixture next week - and Clement says they have been told they will find out by noon on Tuesday whether it’s to be moved to a different venue. That could involve no supporters at such a late stage in proceedings.

And the Belgian said: “If that’s the decision then we will play behind closed doors. If they ask us to play on Mars then we take the flight to win the three points.

“That’s our mindset of the whole group. Of me and all my players. That is a disadvantage, of course. But it is what it is. We need to adapt. Like when it was Covid, we didn’t like it also. But our mindset is that whatever decisions are made we go to win games. That is the mindset. No excuses around that.

“The last thing that I hear now, the last information that I got, is that we will know Tuesday at 12 o’clock at the latest where we are going to play on Wednesday. Normally in Dundee. If it is not possible it will need to be somewhere else.

“That we know now Tuesday at 12 o’clock before we travel, we know what is going to happen. We need to make several plans. I hope we know a few days before where the