Rangers have just given Nils Koppen the keys to Ibrox | OneFootball

It’s safe to say Rangers supporters are still very much digesting this morning’s shambolic breaking news of (former) Director of Football Recruitment (itself a made-up name) Nils Koppen’s promotion to ‘Technical Director’.

This is the long-awaited Director of Football or Sporting Director that supporters have been waiting to see, and for it to turn out to be someone who was already on Rangers’ payroll and who had already had a chequered record at best was… ‘disappointing’.

What does all this mean? What is the wider picture here?

There’s the wailing and gnashing of teeth by Ibrox supporters, seeing a deeply uninspired appointment after a very, very long wait – the frustration of this appointment is as bad as it was when Koppen first came in.

Rangers supporters were in themselves already waiting for a Sporting Director, and when Koppen was announced there was much confusion, before his title indicated that Rangers had given up on searching for one, and created a new post of ‘Director of Football Recruitment’ instead.

Now, his having underwhelmed in that role, Rangers have promoted him to Technical Director and it’s safe to say few have been impressed by this news.

The big problem here is that Ibrox Noise understands Koppen is basically in charge now of a LOT of Rangers – he’s the big boss now at the club, and will be third in command when Rangers (eventually) have a CEO and Chairman.

And for now, with the lack of that, Koppen, more or less, runs Rangers at the top.

The same guy who got us Diomande, Silva, Cortes, Propper and Igamane.

We’ll cover what this means to Philippe Clement in a later entry, but for now, Koppen has more or less been given the keys to the club, free reign to do what he wants with it – and while he will (one day) answer to a CEO and Chairman, the Belgian is now top dog at Rangers.

That’s very, very worrying for Rangers fans.