Philippe Clement needs to take the pressure off Connor Barron | OneFootball

Connor Barron might have won September’s Player of the Month for Rangers, but Ibrox Noise (and quite a few others) are admitting he’s not sparkling as well for the club as he did in his first 5+ matches.

The last few weeks have unfortunately seen a lot of mistakes from Barron, who has never hidden, and conducted himself wonderfully, but we are concerned with the amount of pressure his manager Philippe Clement has put on him by making him an ever-present.

We first noticed a drop in form when Rangers hosted Kyiv – Barron was guilty of quite a few slack passes, and we didn’t want to be harsh. It was the biggest match of his life, and he’d been good in the first leg. He had faced Eintracht for Aberdeen, but not in the Champions League, of course.

It’s safe to say he did not stop grafting, or working, but the quality hike he faced drowned him a bit.

And it has happened in every single big match since for the lad – he disappeared against Celtic, he drowned against Lyon, and he didn’t do that great in Malmo either.

Barron is a young boy, who we feel is being irresponsibly thrown into the deep end by a manager too reliant on him, and we don’t think he’s ready yet.

Yes, to play a part, a big part, and start one or two at that level, but not to be a stalwart already.

We like Barron a lot, but big and strong he isn’t, and he’s struggling in Europe against guys much larger and more powerful than he is. He is also being punished for those wayward passes he will get away with domestically.

Clement needs to immediately change the strategy here. He will burn Barron out, and lose the potential in a lad who threatens to be a great player, but clearly isn’t a Barry Ferguson, who was just a monster freak of a boy at the same kind of age.

Clement’s strategy on Barron is not working, and the lad is too pressured to deliver.

The demands in the SPL are not as hard as he is facing in Europe, and the manager has to rethink how much he relies on Connor Barron especially in Europe. He isn’t experienced enough yet to handle this.

We do not want such a promising talent being badly developed and crashing because there was too much pressure on him.