Philippe Clement vows Rangers pressure won't BURY him as he tells cynics 'I know what I am doing'

Philippe Clement admits he’s been buried before as a player and a manager. In his own words he’s been through hell and also seen heaven in a football sense.

So there’s no way the 6ft something Belgian is going to allow the ghouls to drive his Rangers career six foot under before it’s really even been born. For the first time in his seven months at Ibrox the 50-year-old has been in the firing line for punters who fear they are watching the demise of their title hopes after defeat at Ross County was followed up by a draw in Dundee.

Clement gets it. It was the exact same at Club Brugge where he says every dropped point felt like you were going through purgatory. But he also knows the opposite side can bring a sense of nirvana. He won two titles as boss at the Jan Breydel Stadium - to add to the two he won as a player. He also lifted the Belgian title in his first management job with Genk.

That’s why Clement has full belief in what he is doing at Rangers. Facing up to the flak ahead of Sunday’s Scottish Cup semi final against Hearts, Clement said: “I know it is part of the job. It is like that. I have been more than 30 years in this world and I have been buried a lot of times as a player and as a manager. I know what I am doing in a club, I know what I am doing in this club and we are in the right road together.

“We had some bumps along the road and a lot of things had to do with injuries that we had in the squad. We made a good assessment in the club about that, how to avoid it in the future.

“That will make things better and easier and now it is about taking the maximum out of the situation now. It is a growing situation. In Club Brugge it is the same. Only winning, only becoming champion is the only thing that counts.