Philippe Clement has revealed he spent his visit to Belgium for his 50th birthday celebrations on Rangers business.
LIFE, so the old saying goes, begins at 40. Is turning 50, then, the beginning of the end? Philippe Clement, who celebrated hitting his half century with his friends and family back home in Belgium during the“I don’t feel any different to be honest,” said the Rangers manager after a training session at Auchenhowie yesterday as he spoke to the media for the first time since the Europa League last 16 defeat to Benfica earlier this month.
A number of Rangers players have been away with their countries in the past fortnight – Cyriel Dessers , Leon King , Rabbi Matondo , Ross McCausland , Fabio Silva , John Souttar and Ridvan Yilmaz – and Clement has kept close tabs on all of them. “That is something I need to let go. That is part of our lives as managers of clubs and I think a lot of managers have problems with that sometimes. With a lot of federations there is a really good contact and it is important because if the players perform here well and develop well it is better for the national teams as well.
“He stopped after and he became technical director for two more years and then stopped. So I understand that maybe in one moment it is too much. But it’s an individual thing. I am not thinking about that at the moment. You have people in their 70s still doing it.” “Every week we write new pages together and it is important they don’t forget pages you wrote together before in the way we play football, the way we need to move together on the pitch.
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